40-mile march for removal of Confederate monuments (FL May 2018)
3-day 'March for Change' from Jacksonville to St. Augustine to take place in May
By Kent Justice - Anchor/reporter
Posted: 6:48 PM, April 24, 2018
Updated: 11:18 PM, April 24, 2018
ACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Demonstrators will set out next month on a three-day, 40-mile walk from Jacksonville to St. Augustine, aimed at calling for the removal of Confederate monuments ...
”This is a march to tell the story about racism, the racism these monuments actually represent," said Ben Frazier, with Take 'Em Down Jax and the Northside Coalition. "We’re talking about white privilege. We’re talking about white supremacy. We’re talking about the terror of the Ku Klux Klan” ...
"In Jacksonville, St. Augustine and all around Florida, we see Confederate statues, Confederate school names romanticized, or worse, ignored by people who understand these symbols represent white supremacy," said Michael Todd, with New Florida Majority ...
"People who think that statues should stay up don't understand the real history of the United States," said Wells Todd, with the Jacksonville Progressive Coalition. "We're here to say we're going to walk from that statue to the statue in St. Augustine that's in a place where they used to sell slaves" ...
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