You've seen and heard about all of the confederate statues toppled and spray painted in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Have you wondered aloud (or silently) why it has been so relatively quiet in Montgomery, the first Capitol of The Confederacy (and now that the statue of him in Richmond has been toppled, the only one with a standing statue of Jefferson Davis---not to mention the gold star at the top of the
Capitol steps marking the actual, real, honest-to-goodness place where he truly stood when he took the oath of "office", becoming as it were the "Traitor-in Chief" of the would-be confederate states of America.
Yes, some young people took down a statue of Robert E. Lee in front of the High School bearing his name, but that's about it. I'm not encouraging any destruction or vandalism. That will get you sent to jail.
But really, why is the city called cradle of the confederacy...so settled in these unsettled times.
The only time I know of when the biggest confederate monument of all, on the state Capitol grounds, was attacked was in November of 2007.
The hands and faces of the four confederate military figures that ring the monument on the Capitol grounds were spray painted black.
The culprits were three white teenagers. (11-17-2007)
Capitol steps marking the actual, real, honest-to-goodness place where he truly stood when he took the oath of "office", becoming as it were the "Traitor-in Chief" of the would-be confederate states of America.
Yes, some young people took down a statue of Robert E. Lee in front of the High School bearing his name, but that's about it. I'm not encouraging any destruction or vandalism. That will get you sent to jail.
The only time I know of when the biggest confederate monument of all, on the state Capitol grounds, was attacked was in November of 2007. The hands and faces of the four confederate military figures that ring the monument on the Capitol grounds were spray painted black.
The culprits were three white teenagers. (11-17-2007)
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