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struggle4progress

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Thu Aug 25, 2016, 06:51 PM Aug 2016

Confederate statue drama continues (KY)

By Phillip Lentsch on August 24, 2016

... On April 29, city workers began dismantling the Confederate monument following public statements from both Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer and former U of L President James Ramsey, in which they supported the removal of the statue.

However, the past three months have been bogged down with court proceedings, protests and disagreement about where the statue should be relocated. As of press, the monument still stands on U of L’s campus, but according to the Commission on Public Art, a new spot will be found soon ...


http://www.louisvillecardinal.com/2016/08/confederate-monument-timeline/

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Confederate statue drama continues (KY) (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2016 OP
How about . . . smilodon populator Aug 2016 #1
"Confederate Memorial Waste Water Plant" has a nice ring struggle4progress Aug 2016 #2
How about relocating it in hell with a funny song Jeffersons Ghost Aug 2016 #3
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