Removal of Confederate Statues across the United States Continued at Lee Park, downtown Dallas. A 14 feet, about 4.3metres high, General Robert E. Lee Statue was pulled removed Thursday. The Statue dismounted by workers in yellow vests and hard hats. It was placed on a trailer and towed away by a pick up truck under the protection of police, some armed. The City Administration had come to see the Monument as a symbol of Slavery, Oppression and Injustice.
The Statue was erected in the City Park in 1936. The Confederate Monument have two figures on Horse backs. Will Lee is armed with a sword the other a soldier, riding with him was unarmed. This edifice was commissioned by the then US President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Heightened consciousness of Anti - Confederacy and sensitization came about at the August 12 widely publicised White Supremacist, Neo- Nazi and Ku Klux Klan groups rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. One protester was left dead as a car plowed into the crowd. Two police officers were later to die same day when the helicopter they were monitoring the protest with crashed. Fews days later another tensed rally was managed by city and state officials in Boston and averted what would have been the climax of an already charged situation National sentiments were whipped up and the country remained charged and distinctly divided over immigrant rights culminating to some cities deciding to remove Confederacy Symbols. Baltimore and New Orleans has gone ahead to remove Confederacy Monuments in their municipalities this year.
Acting Dallas Mayor Dwaine Caraway maintained that removal of the Statues is best for Dallas "Dallas is at peace now" he retorted. He would rather all Statues be put in Museums. Certain City council Members cautioned against generalisation in removing such Statues - they are ornamental and historic artefacts and may directly have nothing to do with Nationalist sentiments that is sweeping across United States.
Dallas Removes General Robert E. Lee Statue |
The city's Art Council which has until October 12 to decide what to do with the Statue is having a hard time at that as the voting carried out on friday was a 10-10 stalemate. The statue is now resting at Hensley Field under police protection. Days to come, police may be expecting protests from opposing groups.
A Judge, few weeks ago had turned down a Pro Confederacy group Sons Of Confederate Veterans that approached a US court to prohibit removal of such confederate artefact.
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