Confederate monument debate continues (LA)

[struggle4progress]

Published 07/05 2016 10:47PM
Updated 07/05 2016 10:47PM

... Commissioner Ken Epperson wanted to bring about a Commission vote, over whether or not to give the owners of the Confederate monument one year to remove it.

Commissioners chose instead to wait until the long range planning committee finishes up its work, before taking further action with the monument ...

"There are other places that this structure could go. I'm not looking at suppressing history. I'd like to enhance history," said Epperson.

"If people are worried about going into the courthouse and walking past a statue and not getting a fair trial, then my suggestion would be for them not to have to go to trial," said community member, Barbara Hartwell ...

http://www.arklatexhomepage.com/news/local-news/confederate-monument-debate-continues

[Ex Lurker]

1. Shreveport was the Confederate capitol of Louisiana

and didn't surrender until late May of 1865, nearly two months after Appomattox. It was a rough town for Blacks in the 19th and most of the 20th Centuries, and was particularly bad in the 1960's under virulent racist Public Safety Commissioner George D'Artois, but has an African-American mayor now. The Parish (county) controls the Courthouse, though, and it's majority white.