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struggle4progress

(118,320 posts)
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 04:09 PM Aug 2017

4 charged with trying to remove Lee plaque (Asheville NC)

Posted: Fri 12:28 PM, Aug 18, 2017

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - Four people have been charged with trying to rip away a plaque honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from its place of honor in a North Carolina city.

Asheville police said the arrests came after officers found a group of protesters around the plaque on the city's main downtown plaza about 8 a.m. Friday. Photos show people using crowbars and an electric hand drill to yank away the top-right corner of the metal plaque from a granite boulder. The vandals failed to separate the rest of the plaque ...

http://www.kalb.com/content/news/4-charged-with-trying-to-remove-Lee-plaque-441019783.html

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4 charged with trying to remove Lee plaque (Asheville NC) (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2017 OP
Mayor Manheimer's postion on Vance monument corrected struggle4progress Aug 2017 #1
Heard the suggestion of renaming it G_j Aug 2017 #2
red graffiti LOSER easier to add & re-add. pansypoo53219 Aug 2017 #3

struggle4progress

(118,320 posts)
1. Mayor Manheimer's postion on Vance monument corrected
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 04:11 PM
Aug 2017

The Citizen-Times
Published 5:41 p.m. ET Aug. 17, 2017

... Vance Monument sits at the edge of Pack Square Park in downtown. The 65-foot obelisk honors Zebulon Baird Vance, a Buncombe County native, who served as N.C. governor during the Civil War, as well as a U.S. senator and representative. He also was a white supremacist and slave owner. The monument was dedicated in 1898.

To clarify her position, Manheimer issued the following full statement Thursday morning:

"This week Governor Cooper called for the removal of Confederate monuments and for the state legislature to repeal the 2015 state law that bars removal of such monuments. I agree. Now is the time to stop glorifying those who supported the oppression and enslavement of people because of the color of their skin. This practice is a pillar of institutionalized racism that we have an opportunity to knock down.

"Specific to the Vance monument in downtown Asheville, the community has a variety of opinions about the Vance monument and council is eager to hear the community's ideas about how to contextualize the memorial. Removal, renaming, adding additional monuments to balance the truth of history are all ideas the community has voiced so far" ...

http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2017/08/17/manheimers-postion-monument-corrected/577768001/

G_j

(40,367 posts)
2. Heard the suggestion of renaming it
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 04:17 PM
Aug 2017

(Warren) Haynes Monument, because of all he has given the community and through Habitat For Humanity.
City Council will hear many ideas, In sure.

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