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struggle4progress

(118,320 posts) Fri Jul 17, 2015, 12:24 PM Jul 2015

Fayetteville NAACP urges city to stop using Market House logo

Posted: Friday, July 17, 2015 11:58 am

... Jimmy Buxton, president of the Fayetteville branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has written a letter this week to City Manager Ted Voorhees ...

Today, the city announced it has created an online forum in which to comment about the issue and take a brief survey. The forum can be found on the city's Fayetteville OutFront website at FayettevilleOutFront.com. Click on "City Seal and the Market House" ...

After a Fayetteville black lawyer raised the issue Tuesday - following the Charleston, South Carolina, shootings and the uproar over the Confederate flag in the South Carolina capital - the City Council is set to consider the issue at its Aug. 1 work session. Councilmen Chalmers McDougald and Larry Wright said this week the Market House is offensive to them and many black residents.

A plaque, which the council approved in 1990, says slaves were sold at the location of the Market House, which was rebuilt in early 1830s following the Great Fire of 1831 ...

http://www.fayobserver.com/news/local/fayetteville-naacp-urges-city-to-stop-using-market-house-logo/article_fcfcaf98-c6a1-55a3-a689-af50a415fca7.html

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Fayetteville NAACP urges city to stop using Market House logo (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2015 OP

I think we have gone overboard Travis_0004 Jul 2015 #1

The Market House built in 1832 on the site of the 1788 State House, which was destroyed struggle4progress Jul 2015 #2

I'd have to agree on this. Glassunion Jul 2015 #3

Yeah, "jumped the shark" comes to mind. NaturalHigh Jul 2015 #4

I hope the NAACP is successful. Zorra Jul 2015 #5

Travis_0004

(5,417 posts)

1. I think we have gone overboard

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 12:57 PM

Jul 2015

Its an important building to the city, its where the US constitution was ratified for that state.

Next we can tear down the white house, since it was likely built with slave labor.

struggle4progress

(118,320 posts)

2. The Market House built in 1832 on the site of the 1788 State House, which was destroyed

Reply to Travis_0004 (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 01:04 PM

Jul 2015

in the Great Fire of 1831. At the State House, North Carolina ratified the US Constitution, chartered UNC, and ceded her western lands to form the State of Tennessee ...
http://www.visitfayettevillenc.com/things-to-do/history/6760/market-house