Kentucky mayor announces removal of Confederate statues in wake of Charlottesville
Source: The Hill
The mayor of Lexington, Kentucky is accelerating his plans to remove Confederate statues from key locations in the city due to violence spurred by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday.
"I am taking action to relocate the Confederate statues. We have thoroughly examined this issue, and heard from many of our citizens," Mayor Jim Gray (D) said on Twitter.
"The tragic events in Charlottesville today have accelerated the announcement I intended to make next week," he continued.
Gray said he is looking to remove Confederate statues at the city's Historic Courthouse, which will be the city's new visitors center.
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BigmanPigman
(51,591 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,528 posts)today spurred him to announce it.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/12/16139142/charlottesville-va-protests-lexington-mayor
Link to tweet
The tragic events in Charlottesville today have accelerated the announcement I intended to make next week.
4:35 PM - Aug 12, 2017
hibbing
(10,098 posts)geomon666
(7,512 posts)Don't wait to relocate them. Just throw them in a landfill. Let some fucking yahoo put them in his yard.
lastlib
(23,233 posts)Or break 'em up if they're stone. Don't let them become someone else's monuments.
Tear them down!
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,311 posts)RussBLib
(9,008 posts)those abominations should have been removed years ago. Put them in a museum so all the racists can see them in one place.
Then post pictures of the participants in the nazi march above the statues so everyone can see who to ostracize from our society.
These fuckers should never have a job ever again if they've ever had one to start with. Linkedin? Let's start a website where we can see who NOT to hire. I'm in a position of hiring in an HR department and believe me when I say, I leave no stone unturned when researching someone who applies for a job. You'd be surprised how much I can find out on Facebook and the Internet about a candidate.
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)So many people in the South refuse to admit that these are statues of traitors to the U.S.
Paladin
(28,257 posts)We saw a sickening, violent spectacle yesterday, involving the sort of sub-humans who still worship such symbols. Enough, already.
riversedge
(70,218 posts)dalton99a
(81,486 posts)MineralMan
(146,308 posts)a metal recycler to be melted down so the metal can be reused. That is the best way to get rid of them permanently.
If they're marble, just break them up and turn them into marble chips for use in gardens.
Don't move them. Destroy them.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Initech
(100,075 posts)Leave enough - at least two on every campus - living fossils - so we may never forget what these people stood for.
See? I can throw their words right back at them!
Skittles
(153,160 posts)but I do NOT want to see them in every day life
they are a DISGRACE