Dallas Confederate Memorial Could Be on the Way Out Unless Mayor Gets His Way

[TexasTowelie]

Dallas' Confederate war memorial should be removed, the city's Confederate Monuments Task Force said.
Photo: Mark Arthur


The city's Confederate war memorial, cozily situated between City Hall and the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, could be on its way out after a slim majority of the Dallas City Council expressed support for its removal Wednesday.

Late last week, it looked like the towering statue might receive a reprieve from a Dallas Confederate Monuments Task Force recommendation that it be removed. City staff recommended that, rather than paying the $430,000 it will cost to get rid of the monument, the city should place plaques around it to put it in context.

Counting votes on the council during a briefing meeting can be a bit like trying to figure out how the Supreme Court's going to rule from oral arguments. At least seven council members appear set on removing the statue, and three others support get rid of the memorial but are open to a compromise based on cost considerations.

"This is not a historical marker. There was never any intent to teach history or honor historical figures," City Council member Philip Kingston said. "The inscriptions make it quite clear that [the memorial] is absolutely a monument to white supremacy."

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[Nitram]

1. The plaque for the monument extols the virtues of the Confederacy and insists that the war

was not a rebellion, nor was it to protect the institution of slavery, both of which are lies. On the first day of the meeting of the Secession Convention of Texas, Oran M. Roberts, president of the Secession Convention of Texas, introduced the reasons for secession: “The crisis upon us involves not only the right of self government, but the maintenance of a great principle in the law of nations — the immemorial recognition of the institution of slavery.”

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