Pensacola Council To Discuss Lee Square Confederate Monument

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July 10, 2020

On Tuesday July 14, 2020, the Pensacola City Council will hold a special meeting regarding the Confederate Monument located at Lee Square as well as the renaming of Lee Square.

The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. with all public participation taking place remotely. The meeting will be live streamed at cityofpensacola.com/video ...

http://www.northescambia.com/2020/07/pensacola-council-to-discuss-confederate-monument-lee-square-heres-how-to-provide-input

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1. Confederate Marker Removed From Charlotte's Grady Cole Center

By NICK DE LA CANAL • 12 HOURS AGO

A squat, stone marker honoring the Confederacy has been removed from its Plexiglas container near Charlotte's Grady Cole Center, and the chair of the Mecklenburg County Commission says there is no plan yet to return it, despite a state law governing the removal of historical markers.

Mecklenburg County Commission Chair George Dunlap says he directed the county manager to remove the marker on June 21 after he says he became aware of online threats to damage or deface it ...

https://www.wfae.org/post/confederate-marker-removed-charlottes-grady-cole-center#stream/0

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2. Call for Confederate statues to come down at Gettysburg

Jamie Bittner (FOX43)
Published: 5:04 PM EDT July 10, 2020
Updated: 6:22 PM EDT July 10, 2020

An Adams County commissioner is speaking out after his online post calling for Confederate statues to come down in Gettysburg National Park garnered controversy.

"My concern is not the monuments themselves. I don’t think you take down some monuments and racism in America goes away, " said Marty Qually, who later added "it's not the statue, it's the reaction."

Qually said he's not trying to erase history. But, he pointed to problems stemming from when counterprotesters showed up at Gettysburg over July 4th weekend in response to rumors of an ANTIFA flag burning spread online. Qually called the flag burning rumors an 'obvious hoax.'

"There are people walking around with not just handguns on their sides, knives on their sides, but with AR-15's over their shoulders and confederate flags," said Qually. "Later when you see on social media and you start seeing Klan flags and you see people with swastikas tattooed on their neck you get outraged cause this is not what our community is like" ...

https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/commissioner-calls-for-gettysburg-statues-to-come-down/521-5d595a59-9c84-41bb-b960-2aff73ea57ff

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3. VA: Confederate monument in Bicentennial Park to be discussed

By ALEX PERRY
VIRGINIA GAZETTE |
JUL 10, 2020 AT 4:22 PM

The fate of a Confederate monument located in Bicentennial Park will be discussed during a public hearing with Williamsburg City Council on Tuesday.

A new Virginia law came into effect July 1 allowing localities to remove, move or add context to war memorials. The law requires local authorities to hold a public hearing about the removal of a monument, with a 30-day window afterward for outside groups, such as museums, to submit a bid ...

https://www.dailypress.com/virginiagazette/va-vg-monument-preview-07011-20200710-nap3z42fzrghndu2n4crqouggu-story.html

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4. VA: Loudoun County to return monument to United Daughters of the Confederacy

LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — Another Confederate monument has been targeted for removal in Virginia.

WTOP reports that officials in northern Virginia’s Loudoun County voted this week to return the statue of a Confederate soldier to the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

The statue is slated for removal on Sept. 7 from the government-owned property in Leesburg ...

https://wset.com/news/local/loudoun-county-to-return-monument-to-united-daughters-of-the-confederacy

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5. Why was there even a Confederate monument in Seattle?

In 1926, a confederate monument sponsored by the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was put up at Lake View Cemetery in Seattle.

At the dedication ceremony for the United Confederate Veterans Memorial at the Capitol Hill cemetery, M.G. Tennant, the mayor-elect of Tacoma at the time, struck a hopeful tone in his keynote address, saying: "We know now that never again will there be a division in the United States."

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer from May 24, 1926, said the mayor-elect "declared that the great understanding that has come out of the struggle justifies its terrible cost."

Last weekend, after weeks of protests in Seattle where tens of thousands of people marched in the streets to stand up against police brutality and systemic racism, the 10-ton monument that's stood for nearly 100 years was toppled. It was not immediately known who was responsible ...

https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/The-history-behind-the-Confederate-Monument-15394463.php

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6. NC: Residents address county commissioners on removal of Confederate statue

By Sharon Myers
Posted Jul 10, 2020 at 8:00 AM

Several Lexington residents, as well as the Lexington City Manager, addressed the Davidson County Board of Commissioners during its meeting Thursday concerning recent conflicts and incidents surrounding a request to have the Confederate monument in uptown Lexington removed.

During the 30-minute allotment of time allowed for public comment, several people urged county commissioners to address the removal of the statue because of recent incidents of intolerance and violence toward protesters and the potential threat to public safety from such actions.

Lexington City Manager Terra Greene addressed the Davidson County Board of Commissioners during the meeting about the seriousness of incidents in uptown Lexington concerning the Confederate monument ...

https://www.the-dispatch.com/news/20200710/residents-address-county-commissioners-on-removal-of-confederate-statue

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7. Virginia Judge Linked to College Op-Ed Blasting Desegregation

July 10, 2020
BRAD KUTNER

RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — Four decades ago, a young man wrote an opinion piece critical of school desegregation and instant voter registration for his college newspaper. That op-ed resurfaced Friday, and Virginians discovered the author is now a Richmond judge who in recent weeks blocked the removal of Confederate monuments during the nationwide re-examination of symbols still tied to the institution of slavery.

Elected officials spent the day condemning the piece written by Brad Cavedo in The Collegian, the University of Richmond’s newspaper, in 1977.

“This is highly problematic,” said Delegate Lamont Bagby (D-74), in a tweet which included a screengrab of the op-ed. Bagby also chairs the state’s Legislative Black Caucus.

In “What does U.S. Life Offer Me?” Cavedo — at the time the editor of The Collegian’s editorial section — wrote about his desire to leave the United States after graduation ...

https://www.courthousenews.com/virginia-judge-at-heart-of-monument-takedown-fight-linked-to-college-op-ed-blasting-desegregation/

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8. The Electoral College: another Confederate Monument to Destroy

BY HAROLD MEYERSON
JULY 9, 2020

For anyone who still wonders why Confederate monuments need to come down, let me refer you to a famous line from the great bard of the white South, William Faulkner. In the white Southern universe—that is, in matters of white racism—Faulkner wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

The statues of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and their traitorous ilk were erected to perpetuate and reinforce white supremacy, and hence are completely valid targets for teardowns. But America suffers from one particular legacy of racism more damaging than the monuments, and the great Black Lives Matter movement that is seeking to create a more egalitarian nation needs to target that legacy, too.

I refer to the Electoral College.

As I discussed in my On TAP on Tuesday, the Supreme Court, by striking down earlier this week the ability of a presidential elector to vote for a candidate other than the one that their state’s voters supported, affirmed that popular majorities determine whom a state will support for president—but not whom the nation will support. Al Gore received half a million more votes than George W. Bush in 2000 but lost the Electoral College vote to him. Hillary Clinton received nearly three million more votes than Donald Trump, but also lost in the Electoral College ...

https://prospect.org/blogs/tap/one-more-confederate-monument-to-destroy-electoral-college/