What Will San Antonio Do With Its Travis Park Confederate Statue? (TX)
By Michael Marks @michaelpmarks
The soldier atop the Confederate monument in Travis Park has stood watch over the square green patch on the northern edge of downtown since 1900.
The 40-feet-high obelisk is topped with a statue of a mustachioed Confederate soldier. He holds a rifle in his left hand, resting it against the ground. His right hand points skyward. The words "Lest We Forget" are inscribed halfway down the monument, followed by "Our Confederate Dead" carved further down, closer to the base ...
"As it stands now it's only giving one side of the story. Its mere presence is an erasure of history" ...
Instead of tearing the statue down or leaving it untouched, Councilmember Roberto Treviño has proposed a third option: keep the monument in place but give it some neighbors – plaques commemorating civil rights leaders ...
http://www.sacurrent.com/sanantonio/what-will-san-antonio-do-with-its-travis-park-confederate-statue/Content?oid=2465731
