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# Confederate Monuments Removed Or Vandalized Across US

August 18, 2017 7:51 PM
Filed Under: Confederate monuments, monuments removed, racism, white nationalist

(AP) – Confederate monuments are being removed around the country under pressure from those who say they honor a regime that enslaved African-Americans. The pace has increased, however, in the wake of last weekend’s deadly confrontation at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

A look at monuments that have been removed, covered up or vandalized in recent days:
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ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
A statue of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney, who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery and denied citizenship to African-Americans, was removed from the grounds of the Maryland State House Friday and trucked away to storage. Three of four voting members of the State House Trust voted to move the bronze statue, which was erected in 1872.
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HELENA, MONTANA
The city removed a granite fountain Friday that stood in a park as a monument to Confederate soldiers since 1916. One of a few people on hand to oppose the removal was detained when she defied orders to vacate the grounds of the fountain. She was later released.
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BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON
The city near the Canadian border removed signs identifying Pickett Bridge, which was named for Confederate Capt. George E. Pickett. North of Vancouver, former highway markers honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis were splashed with red or black paint at a park on private land Friday.
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ARLINGTON, TEXAS
The Dallas-area theme park Six Flags Over Texas will no longer fly the Confederate flag. The park named for the six flags that have flown over the state said Friday that will now fly six American flags.
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NEW YORK
Transit officials will alter subway tiles at a Manhattan station that have a cross-like design similar to that of the Confederate flag. The design at the 40th Street entrance to the Times Square stop isn’t flag-related but transit officials said they want to avoid confusion about their meaning. Earlier this week, plaques honoring Gen. Robert E. Lee were removed from the property of a now-closed Brooklyn church. Meanwhile, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called on the Army to rename two streets at Fort Hamilton that honor Lee and another Confederate general.
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DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
A statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee at Duke University was found defaced Thursday. The statue in the entryway to Duke Chapel had damage to its nose. Another monument of a Confederate soldier that stood in front of a government office building in town was pulled down by protesters Monday night. Four people have been arrested, and authorities say more arrests are planned. Earlier, two statues in Wilmington were defaced with spray paint.
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LEESBURG, VIRGINIA
A statue outside a courthouse dedicated to Confederate soldiers was vandalized. Obscenities and other graffiti were spray-painted on the 1908 monument sometime before dawn Thursday. The damage was repaired.
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MADISON, WISCONSIN
A plaque honoring confederate soldiers was removed Wednesday from a cemetery and a second monument will be taken down later. The plaque lauded “the valiant” Confederate soldiers buried there. Mayor Paul Soglin said the Civil War was “a defense of the deplorable practice of slavery.”
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PHOENIX
A Confederate monument outside Phoenix was found covered in tar and feathers on Thursday. Earlier, the Confederate Troops Memorial outside the Arizona Capitol was spray-painted white. It was the second time in a week that the memorial had been vandalized.
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BALTIMORE
Four Confederacy-related monuments were hauled away on trucks under cover of darkness late Tuesday night and early Wednesday. Mayor Catherine Pugh said she was concerned that such statues might spark violence.
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KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
A 1914 monument honoring fallen Confederate soldiers was splattered with paint earlier this week. Opponents are signing a petition to have it removed from a neighborhood near the University of Tennessee campus.
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BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
A 52-foot-tall obelisk honoring Confederate soldiers and sailors was covered by wooden panels at the mayor’s order. The 1905 monument is in a downtown park. The cover-up Tuesday prompted a lawsuit by Alabama’s attorney general, who argues that it violates a new law prohibiting the removal of historical structures, including rebel memorials.
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LOS ANGELES
Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where many movie legends are interred, removed a 6-foot Confederate monument that was erected in 1925. The stone and attached plaque stood near the graves of more than 30 Confederate veterans and their families.
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SAN DIEGO
The city removed a plaque naming Confederate President Jefferson Davis from a downtown plaza Wednesday. The 1926 plaque honored San Diego as the Western terminus of the Jefferson Davis Highway between Virginia and California.

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1. Dave Dykstra says:
   August 19, 2017 at 9:42 am

   Can we continue removing all things Democrat Party?

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   1. Mark Mullins says:
      August 19, 2017 at 10:45 am

      They’re busy erasing their racist past before anyone notices.

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2. Rocky Harden says:
   August 19, 2017 at 9:48 am

   These democrats have lost what little mind they ever had. The slave holders in the south were all democrats. The statues they want to destroy are statues of democrats. The statues were erected by democrats, some as late as the 1960s. The KKK was (and still is) made up of democrats. NAZIs were (and are) socialists like democrats, not conservatives). NAZI is an acronym that means “National Socialist German Workers’ Party.” Here is the bottom line: The democrats (and some republicans) cannot get over that Hillary lost. They stay up late trying to figure ways to destroy Trump, who actually did win. They are ignoring laws that have been in existence for years. Who started this lawlessness? You guessed it. Our old friend Obama.

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3. Tim Cogswell says:
   August 19, 2017 at 9:48 am

   What’s next… The Statue of Liberty?

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4. Dale Warren says:
   August 19, 2017 at 10:21 am

   While radical, hard left, anti-American, violent, racist, socialist, Progressives are tearing down Confederate Monuments, plaques, and foundations, statues of socialist mass murderers whose victims number the multiplied millions remain standing tall and proud and are venerated to the nth degree by violent, mobs of anti-Confederate haters and bigots whose Orwellian newspeak mantra is “destroy hate by hating, establish law and order by lawless mob anarchy, and preserve America by destroying America.” Senseless stupidity breeds mind blind stupidity and fanaticism despises cogent reason.

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5. Mark Mullins says:
   August 19, 2017 at 10:38 am

   Let me think, there’s another group who favor defacing, destroying and removing historical monuments they find offensive, now who was that?,… ah yes, that would be ISIS.

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6. Neil Thegratefuldad says:
   August 19, 2017 at 10:56 am

   Now that they toppled Confederate statues
   Perhaps they’ll study history and see it was
   THE REPUBLICANs who fought for your rights.

   Ironically you now give your souls to the Democratic
   party. The ones who enslaved you in the first place.

   You do know that the KKK were Democrats in robes.
   But, they don’t teach these things, they knock and topple them down.
   The Big Lie

   Democrats fought AGAINST civil rights but they don’t teach that.

   During the Civil Rights era, it was Jews helping
   blacks get those rights. Some gave their lives for the
   cause but Now Ironically you hate Jews, the people who fought for you.

   You bend and turn at every highly edited so-called news story that
   bends and turns the truth.

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7. Joe Harris says:
   August 19, 2017 at 11:17 am

   On command from up high.

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8. Walter Miller says:
   August 19, 2017 at 12:04 pm

   The schools, cities, and towns that have these monuments have every right to decide whether they should remove them or not.

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9. William James says:
   August 19, 2017 at 12:31 pm

   You need to add Reidsville, North Carolina to the list. A Democrat rammed the soldier statue several years ago and the Democrat-dominated city council would not allow its replacement.

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10. William James says:
    August 19, 2017 at 12:34 pm

    Oh – one more note about that Reidsville, NC statue . . . when a replacement was put up in a private cemetery, it was then spray painted by Black Lives Matter vandals.

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11. Don Stickney says:
    August 19, 2017 at 12:40 pm

    One has to wonder about the TIMING of all these anti-Confederate statue riots. Back when there was a black president in office for eight years, and his Dem party was in the majority for part of those eight years, where was this ‘demand’ for the statue removal then?
    Now a Republican is president, and the Dems are at their lowest numbers nationwide in decades! Are Rent-A-Mobs behind all these protests? Are the lamestream news media egging the situation on, knowing that it makes a president that they hate look bad? A president that has referred to some of them as ‘fake news’?
    There are just too many unanswered questions to consider this all as being spontaneous.

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12. Dusty Granger says:
    August 19, 2017 at 12:49 pm

    >Voters Oppose Removing Confederate Monuments<

    The increasingly radical Left leaning, and further reality detached Democrats and their Party may be cutting their own throats, as they attempt to erase our history, they may be erasing themselves at the voting booth:

    While proposals have been made to get rid of monuments such as the Jefferson Memorial and the carving on Stone Mountain in Georgia because they honor men who practiced or defended slavery, just 19% of Likely U.S. Voters think the United States should erase symbols of its past history that are out of line with current sentiments. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 69% oppose erasing these historical symbols. Twelve percent (12%) are undecided.

    The survey of 1,000 Likely U.S. Voters was conducted on May 25 & 28, 2017 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology. "

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    1. Dusty Granger says:
       August 19, 2017 at 12:50 pm

       Link to above Poll/Article: http://m.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/may_2017/voters_oppose_removing_confederate_monuments

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13. Dusty Granger says:
    August 19, 2017 at 12:52 pm

    NEW NPR/PBS POLL: Most Voters Want Confederate Statues To Remain

    “A new poll released Thursday shows a majority of U.S. voters want Confederate statues to remain where they are.

    The NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll asked voters if Confederate statues should remain or be removed. Sixty-two percent of the poll’s participants said that the statues should remain. Only 27 percent of the participants believe the statues should be removed.

    This poll comes as local leaders around the country are calling for the removal of Confederate monuments following violence surrounding a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., where groups gathered to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. A group of protesters also toppled a monument of a Confederate soldier in Durham, N.C., Monday evening.

    President Donald Trump sent off several tweets criticizing the removal of Confederate statues. Trump defended the statues and monuments in a series of tweets Thursday.

    “Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments,” Trump tweeted. “You can’t change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson – who’s next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!”

    “The beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!” Trump added minutes later.

    The NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll was conducted by phone between August 14th and August 15th. The 1,125 participants were all U.S. citizens. The margin of error was 2.9 percentage points.”

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14. Dusty Granger says:
    August 19, 2017 at 12:53 pm

    Link to above Poll/Article: http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/17/poll-most-voters-want-confederate-statues-to-remain/

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15. James Bates says:
    August 19, 2017 at 12:55 pm

    Next the Native Americans will demand removal of all the Union Army Statues and monuments, as many of the same soldiers from the Civil War went on to fight in the Indian Wars soon after!

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16. Chainsaw McGherk (@ChainsawMcGherk) says:
    August 19, 2017 at 1:01 pm

    In Caleefornia, Democrats are simultaneously proposing secession and the removal of statues dedicated to Democrat secessionists….talk about cognitive dissonance.

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17. Melvin Bennett (@EMelPitt1981) says:
    August 19, 2017 at 1:02 pm

    Being a Phd in history and btw I’m from Pennsylvania and my Great Great Grandfather fought for the Union (that’s the North for the illiterate ignoramuses) at both Gettysburg and Fredericksburg, two of the bloodiest battles. I find this all quite disgusting and vile. It should be noted that the majority of our Nation’s two most distinguished military medals, the Medal of Honor and the Silver Star has been awarded much more to soldiers from the various Southern States, than any other area of the country.

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18. Larry Langley says:
    August 19, 2017 at 1:05 pm

    What’s next–crosses on churches, menorahs on synagogues, or any recognizable vestiges of mosques? Demolition of the Lincoln Memorial? Destruction of Monticello?

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19. Denan Strong (@DenanStrong) says:
    August 19, 2017 at 1:06 pm

    In 2001, the Taliban “removed” (blew up) the 1700 year old Bamiyan Buddhas because they “offended” Muslims, triggering them into removing physical, visual history.

    Over the past few years ISIS has removed (blown up, burned down, otherwise destroyed) many buildings, statues and works that are part of the history of those Iraq and Syria and the entire region. ISIS too claims that the historic items “offend” them and their ideology/theology.

    Now we have Democrats, ironically the greatest existing symbol of the history of slavery, advocating, supporting and even trying to make it legal, to destroy American history.

    No rational person supports slavery or supremacy of any race over others. That’s just insane. But what else is insane and vastly more dangerous in reality is the Left’s getting away with demonizing “white people” and all those who will not submit to their ideology.

    Ironically, “ANTIFA” (anti-fascism) are the thug/enforcement-tools of the new PC-Fascism, aka, globalism/progressive-ism/leftism…

    ANTIFA is to Globalism/Leftism as the Taliban or ISIS is to Islamism. People often wonder why the American/European Left have such an affinity for Islam, always quick to defend and minimize the words/deeds of Islamics when they act against or speak against the West and especially America.

    Well, the Left and Islam are “friends” in the ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend’ sense. Their common enemy? Individualism as developed and practiced in the West and especially America, the only nation in history to be founded upon the primacy of the individual over the State.

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20. Don Stickney says:
    August 19, 2017 at 1:07 pm

    Oh, and in your list of places in the US where Confederate statues/monuments have been removed or destroyed, CBS, you listed Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.
    I’m reasonably sure that the Hollywood Forever cemetery is in Richmond, VA.

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21. Melvin Bennett (@EMelPitt1981) says:
    August 19, 2017 at 1:19 pm

    I find it quite funny, as in funny strange, that their sits a statue of a Confederate General. A fellow named Albert Pike, General Albert Pike who fought for the Confederacy. And you see this huge statue sits right in Washington DC, just a few short blocks from the Department of Justice. Pike was a 33rd degree Freemasony and the Grand Commander of the Eastern USA. He wrote one of Masonry’s handbooks called Morals and Dogma. So it will be quite interesting to see what happens to this statue, as some folks in DC are calling for it’s removal.

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