Motivated by civil unrest, politicians are now scrambling to make good on years-old promises to remove statues, roadways and other homages to the Confederacy.
The bureaucratic red tape that normally prevents politicians from rapidly changing their cityscapes is falling away as protesters demanding racial justice insist that Confederate monuments be swept into the dustbin of history.Friday that it would remove a controversial mural of enslaved Africans and Native Americans from its walls. In Louisiana, Nicholls State University officials have also scrapped the names of two college buildings dedicated to Confederate generals.
"Our streets and shared rights of way are littered with vestiges of a racist past," said New Orleans Council member Jason Williams in a statement to NPR."We cannot allow honors given to war criminals to remain when the people who bestowed those honors don't represent our values." Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has ordered the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va.Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has ordered the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va.The renewed sense of urgency has been fueled by George Floyd's death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer now charged with murder.
"A real reckoning is here," said Kirk Savage, an art historian at the University of Pittsburgh who has written extensively on Confederate imagery."Confederate monuments have become targets because they are powerful expressions of the brutal practices that led to Floyd's murder; they are the artworks that gild the system."
Earlier this week, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said he would rather violate state law and pay a $25,000 fine than face more civil unrest, choosing to
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