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struggle4progress

(118,334 posts) Tue Sep 22, 2015, 03:12 AM Sep 2015

Dialogue Continues On Confederate Memorials And Marker (KY)

By JOSH JAMES • 3 HOURS AGO

Last week, the Urban County Art Review Board heard opinions from a slate of local experts on the placement and presentation of two Confederate memorials along with a historical marker in downtown Lexington. This week, it was the public’s turn ...

Speaker John Williams repeatedly admonished the board to consider the "untold horrors" that occurred on the grounds of Cheapside Park, once the focal point of the antebellum slave trade in the region, calling the men depicted nearby, Confederate Generals John Hunt Morgan and John C. Breckinridge, "treasonous" ...

Most urged the board to balance its consideration of the statues' historical value with the need to better illustrate Lexington’s aspirations as a diverse and inclusive community – no small task given the many perspectives on offer. Monday's crowd of roughly 50 people included great-great-grandchildren of slaves and Confederate fighters.

Given that complexity, Stuart Horodner asked the board to pump the brakes on the process by scheduling more public meetings ...

http://wuky.org/post/dialogue-continues-confederate-memorials-and-marker

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Dialogue Continues On Confederate Memorials And Marker (KY) (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2015 OP

I live in Lexington get the red out Sep 2015 #1

I thought I read somewhere that some jackass cut the historical marker down and struggle4progress Sep 2015 #2

Crap get the red out Sep 2015 #3

get the red out

(13,468 posts)

1. I live in Lexington

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue Sep 22, 2015, 05:30 AM

Sep 2015

I think we have a duty to remember what happened at "Cheapside" long before the beautiful farmer's market and nice, down town activities. We should not sanitize out city's history. I hope the historical marker remains.

The tributes are a present embarrassment, they have no place downtown. This kind of thing needs to be moved to the Ky history museum or something.

I love this city, but we need to look at what we honor vs the horrors we remember.

struggle4progress

(118,334 posts)

2. I thought I read somewhere that some jackass cut the historical marker down and

Reply to get the red out (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 22, 2015, 06:02 AM

Sep 2015

the city's still waiting for a replacement

On edit: http://www.kyforward.com/experts-to-speak-today-as-lexington-explores-options-for-controversial-statues-marker/

get the red out

(13,468 posts)

3. Crap

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 22, 2015, 07:14 AM

Sep 2015

I can't even keep up with this shit.

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