Mayor Joe Hogsett announced Thursday that a monument dedicated to Confederate soldiers who died at a Union prison camp will be removed from a city park.
that a monument dedicated to Confederate soldiers who died at a Union prison camp will be removed from a city park.
“Our streets are filled with voices of anger and anguish, testament to centuries of racism directed at black Americans,” Hogsett said in a statement. “We must name these instances of discrimination and never forget our past – but we should not honor them. Whatever original purpose this grave marker might once have had, for far too long it has served as nothing more than a painful reminder of our state’s horrific embrace of the Ku Klux Klan a century ago.
Officials said it was moved to Garfield Park in 1928 after efforts by public officials active in the KKK.U.S. Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind.,"While we must always remember our history, we should never glorify America's history of racism," Carson tweeted. "For Black people, these monuments to our legacy of bondage are particularly painful, & further prove how much work remains to reach equality.
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