LOUISVILLE, Ky.
A Confederate monument capped with a statue of Jefferson Davis will be removed from a spot near the University of Louisville campus where it has stood since 1895.
The stone monument honoring Kentuckians who died for the Confederacy in the Civil War will be moved to another location, University President James Ramsey and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said during a surprise announcement Friday.
"It's time for us to move this monument to a more appropriate place," Ramsey said while standing in front of the stone memorial, which sits next to the university's gleaming Speed Art museum that just completed a $60 million renovation.
Governments and universities across the country have re-evaluated displays of Confederate symbols following the racially motivated slayings last summer of nine black parishioners at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina.
The tall, obelisk-style monument will be disassembled and cleaned while it is in storage awaiting a new location, which has not been determined. It was given to the city by the Kentucky Woman's Monument Association.
Ricky Jones, a professor of Pan-African studies at the university, said he has been pushing for removal of the statue since he arrived at the university in the late 1990s.
"I can't tell you how happy I am," Jones said after the announcement Friday. "I think this statue being on the campus is somewhat akin to flying the Confederate flag over the (university's) administration building."
Jones wrote in a newspaper opinion piece last week that the statue is a "towering granite and bronze eyesore glorifying the nadir of America's past."
Jones and Mayor Fischer noted that the university was much smaller when the statue was put up at the turn of the century, and the campus has developed around it.
University and city officials have been working on the removal for several weeks and there was even construction equipment parked alongside the base of the monument on Friday during the announcement.
Kentucky is the birthplace of both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederacy. Both are honored in the state's Capitol rotunda with large statues. Following the Charleston church shootings, leaders from both political parties called for the removal of the Davis statue. But a state commission voted 7-2 not to remove it.
No matter how had these assholes try, they cannot change history.
I salute the state commission that voted not to remove the Davis statue !
#1: rlk To: Stoner (#0)
Professor of hype and exageration. Just how much has black Africa contributed to the advancement of mankind during a period of 10,000 years? The Greeks advanced math, architecture and philosophy 2,400 years ago. Germans and English created the calculus and advanced the sciences. Russians advanced psychology, chemistry, and the advancement of rational law. Chinese developed ceramics and architecture. Japanese developed metalurgy and systems of government. Seventy years ago Africans were still running around in loincloths waving sticks and the advancement they made in anything wouldn't fill a thimble.
rlk posted on 2016-04-30 17:06:03 Reply Private Reply
#2: Stoner To: rlk (#1)
"Ricky Jones, a professor of Pan-African studies at the university." I bet his classes last at most about 4.5 minutes, if that!
Stoner posted on 2016-04-30 17:25:48 Reply Private Reply
#3: buckeroo To: rlk (#1)
The 0bama klan filled the WhiteHut in 2008, so there is proof that advancement has occured not just for America but for all of mankind.
buckeroo posted on 2016-04-30 17:27:56 Reply Private Reply
#4: Stoner To: buckeroo (#3)
Bucky, there are 5,000 comedians on the unemployment line. And here you are trying to be one.
Stoner posted on 2016-04-30 18:40:39 Reply Private Reply
#5: buckeroo To: Stoner (#4)
buckeroo posted on 2016-04-30 18:45:52 Reply Private Reply
#6: Stoner To: buckeroo (#5)
Stoner posted on 2016-04-30 19:14:06 Reply Private Reply
#7: buckeroo To: Stoner (#6)
Sure you do. You are a trumerette, correct? you are a voter for a man that has no principles, similar to all presidetial candidates that are selected for you to pick.
There is nothing new to change once any of these charlatans are refreshed into the WhiteHut based on a personality. It is all predetermined for you. How much are you willing to pay?
buckeroo posted on 2016-04-30 19:17:48 Reply Private Reply
#8: Justified To: Stoner (#0)
Yep. The dump it is. Now we can bring something more appropriate!
Justified posted on 2016-04-30 19:38:51 Reply Private Reply
#9: Hondo68 To: Stoner, story corrected, not Jefferson Davis (#0)
They're removing blacks from the campus, maybe. Black Confederates Matter !!! BCM.
www.kentucky.com/latest-news/article74649272.html
LOUISVILLE, Ky.
In a story April 30 about the upcoming removal of a Confederate monument, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the monument was capped with a statue of Jefferson Davis. The statue is of a Confederate soldier.
A corrected version of the story is below:
Kentucky Confederate monument to be removed after 120 years
A Confederate monument will be removed from a spot near the University of Louisville campus where it has stood since 1895
By DYLAN LOVAN
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Confederate monument will be removed from a spot near the University of Louisville campus where it has stood since 1895.
The stone monument honoring Kentuckians who died for the Confederacy in the Civil War will be moved to another location, University President James Ramsey and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said during a surprise announcement Friday. The monument is capped with a statue of a Confederate soldier.
Read more here: www.kentucky.com/latest-n...649272.html#storylink=cpy
Hondo68 posted on 2016-04-30 20:07:49 Reply Private Reply