Texas Judge Clears Way for Removal of Jefferson Davis Statue

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

A judge on Thursday cleared the way for the University of Texas to move a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis away from the main area of campus, despite objections from a Southern heritage group that called uprooting the monument a "cultural atrocity" and compared it to the Islamic State destroying ancient artifacts in the Middle East.

Civil rights activists say the nearly century-old bronze likeness of Davis highlights the university's racist past and the statue had been targeted by vandals. New school President Greg Fenves recently ordered it moved to a campus museum, but allowed other Confederate symbols to remain.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans, which earlier this year lost a U.S. Supreme Court decision over rejected Confederate license plates, had sued to prevent moving Davis' statue.

But state District Judge Karin Crump said state law allows the school to determine where to place statuary on its campus. And she noted the original will of benefactor George Littlefield, who commissioned the statue of Davis and others, stated that it be placed in a position of prominence.

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AUSTIN, Texas — Aug 27, 2015, 7:41 PM ET
By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press

[SCVDem]

1. ISIS? Really?

Why do they honor traitors?

Just put this stuff in a museum where it is put in context.

[Sunlei]

2. The Sons of Confederate Veterans needs to open a museum for their war relics.

[truthisfreedom]

4. And pay for it out of their own pockets.

In the end this is all about money.

[mountain grammy]

6. Yep.. get this stuff out of the public domain.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. "uprooting the monument a 'cultural atrocity'"???

Naw,...it's more like this...

[jtuck004]

5. Until all the Europeans get off this soil it stands as a monument to the genocide of the Native

People.

So there is that. United States of Hypocrites.

[24601]

9. As well as anyone whose ancestors immigrated via ice cap, glaciers or ice-age land bridges?

When you remove all people who's ancestors came to the Americas from other continents, there are no people left at all, right?

https://www.google.com/search?q=immigration+via+ice+age+land+bridge&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CDUQ7AlqFQoTCNuOv767y8cCFUxtPgodXg4AIw&biw=1242&bih=575#imgrc=q6QfMzmPE-if8M%3A

If the issue is what and how, and not when, there are no truly indigenous Americans. Probably most of the non-human animals too.

If you don't draw a line based on time of immigration, there are people. As soon as you do, 5, 50 or 500 years is just as rational as 50,000 because it's just subjective opinion.

[rpannier]

7. Because moving a statue is the same as blowing it up

The Confederacy fails again