Confederate monument to move to cemetery (NC)

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BY STEVE HARRISON

Charlotte City Manager Ron Carlee said he plans to move a Confederate monument that used to sit on the lawn of Old City Hall to Elmwood Cemetery.

The memorial, which was placed on city property in 1977, was defaced this summer. Someone spray painted “Racist” on the granite, and the city removed it for cleaning.

The monument is being stored in a warehouse.

The Confederate Memorial Association of Charlotte paid for the monument. Carlee told City Council members Monday that people associated with the group approached him about moving the monument to the cemetery ...

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article46163760.html

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1. Sounds good. "The marker was unveiled in 1929 during

the 39th reunion of the United Confederate Veterans and was engraved with language some consider racist. The monument’s inscription hails Confederate soldiers for “preserving the Anglo-Saxon civilization of the South.

Charlotte’s Confederate monument stirred passions, then and now."

Obviously it doesn't belong on publicly owned property. I have a large old book about Southern gardens written back then that I treasure, but someone twice tucked into the descriptions of individual gardens mentions of the KKK's necessary work in protecting whatever. Bizarre and out of place, but almost anything can be degraded by use as a vehicle for fear and bigotry, unfortunately including this memorial to fallen men.