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Board votes to remove Confederate monument from Linn Park
Julie Rockett
Posted: 07/01/2015 12:02 PM
BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) - The Birmingham Parks and Recreation Board has taken the first step to remove a Confederate monument from Linn Park.
The board voted to remove the monument during a meeting on Wednesday.
Members also agreed to get the city's legal deparmtent to research any legal impediment in moving the monument.
The monument was placed in Linn Park in 1905 by the Pelham Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
That group does not exist any more, so the board said it will contact five other chapters in Birmingham to see if they will assume the cost and resposibility of moving the monument.
Board member and former Birmingham mayor Benard Kincaid said he wants to be respectful of history, but in light of the church shootings in Charleston, South Carolina he does not believe a Confederate monument should be in a city park in Birmingham.
Copyright 2015 WBRC. All rights reserved.
Julie Rockett
Posted: 07/01/2015 12:02 PM
BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) - The Birmingham Parks and Recreation Board has taken the first step to remove a Confederate monument from Linn Park.
The board voted to remove the monument during a meeting on Wednesday.
Members also agreed to get the city's legal deparmtent to research any legal impediment in moving the monument.
The monument was placed in Linn Park in 1905 by the Pelham Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
That group does not exist any more, so the board said it will contact five other chapters in Birmingham to see if they will assume the cost and resposibility of moving the monument.
Board member and former Birmingham mayor Benard Kincaid said he wants to be respectful of history, but in light of the church shootings in Charleston, South Carolina he does not believe a Confederate monument should be in a city park in Birmingham.
Copyright 2015 WBRC. All rights reserved.
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its sad we have to give up our history and heritage .
we are building the wall taller every day , they want to take down lets start by not calling them self African American's . that would be a step in not wanting to be looked at as separate
http://fox2now.com/2015/07/01/st-louis-mayor-narrows-scrutiny-of-confederate-memorial/
ST. LOUIS (AP) - St. Louis' mayor is scrapping plans for a panel to decide whether a Confederate memorial should be moved out of the city's Forest Park.
Francis Slay wrote in his blog Tuesday he now wants a foundation to solicit proposals from people or groups willing to offer up a public place for the 32-foot granite shaft, if it's decided it should be moved.
Slay's had said in April he had asked three agencies to weigh what, if anything, to do with the memorial that's been in the park for a century.
The debate comes as Confederate symbols across the country have faced increasing scrutiny since last month's shooting deaths of nine black congregants at a Charleston, South Carolina, church. That suspect, Dylann Roof, had posed in photos with the Confederate flag.
"in light of the church shootings in Charleston, South Carolina he does not believe a Confederate monument should be in a city park"
so friggin what?!?!?
deprive the rest of everybody their cultural history, and the things they enjoy, because of one stupid moron??
that also denies everyone else the right to free speech, when a monument is taken away because of some stigma (wrongfully) attached to it.
COWARDS....kowtowing to the whims of an ignorant minority
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What is happening is no different than what ISIS is doing over there blowing up antiquities and historic buildings constructed centuries ago.
Like Hitler attempted to do by stealing art in Europe, when you destroy a country/societies history, they have lost their heritage.
The liberal lefties are doing a grand job of that here in the USA, virtually unopposed and with the courts approval.
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yup
the Taliban destroyed a lot of artifacts
What is happening is no different than what ISIS is doing over there blowing up antiquities and historic buildings constructed centuries ago.
Like Hitler attempted to do by stealing art in Europe, when you destroy a country/societies history, they have lost their heritage.
The liberal lefties are doing a grand job of that here in the USA, virtually unopposed and with the courts approval.
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Exactly! It is ignorance and intolerance on their part, the side who preaches diversity and tolerance.
That is the libtard way they are the scourge of our society. the Socialist intolerant libtard, they are the destroyer. They make nothing they only tear down(that sounds like it from the planet of the apes and that is what we are living in right now).
That's been the plan of the black man in the colored house since the day he took office. Erase America's past for a peaceful more open minded land.
quote:Originally posted by 96harley
That's been the plan of the black man in the colored house since the day he took office. Erase America's past for a peaceful more open minded land.
The color of the house in which the president lives has been changed- per the current renters wishes, the house is now COLORED.