Dallas' Confederate War Memorial Might Be Coming Down (TX)

STEPHEN YOUNG | APRIL 17, 2018 | 4:00AM

... last month, Dallas Assistant City Manager Joey Zapata told the council that the .. monument .. should stay up, despite the recommendation of the city's Confederate Monuments Task Force that it be torn down. Rather than spending the $430,000 it would cost to tear the statue down, Zapata said, the city should add a series of plaques to give the statue context ...

"This is not a historical marker. There was never any intent to teach history or honor historical figures," City Council member Philip Kingston said. "The inscriptions make it quite clear that <the memorial> is absolutely a monument to white supremacy" ...

... Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings ... said he was "chilled" by the "scary" memorial but that it should be allowed to remain ...

On April 25, the council will vote on what to do with the monument, in addition to several streets in the city named after Confederate generals ... In addition to taking down the memorial, the resolution calls for .. a memorial in downtown Dallas for Allen Brooks, the victim of a notorious lynching in 1910. The council will also vote on whether or not to sell the Robert E. Lee statue removed from Oak Lawn Park in September ...

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