Posted on 08/21/2017 4:46:16 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
AUSTIN, Texas - University of Texas President Gregory L. Fenves abruptly announced late Sunday that four statues of people with Confederate ties would be removed immediately from the school’s South Mall.
The bronze likenesses of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Albert Sidney Johnston and Confederate Postmaster John H. Reagan will be relocated to the university’s Briscoe Center for American History, Fenves said. The statue of James Stephen Hogg, the first native-born governor of Texas and the son of a Confederate general, will be considered for re-installation at another campus site, he said.
The removal of the statues under cover of darkness comes in the wake of protests a week earlier by white nationalists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Va., that turned violent, with one counterprotester killed and numerous others injured when a man with far-right leanings allegedly drove his car into a crowd.
“The horrific displays of hatred at the University of Virginia and in Charlottesville shocked and saddened the nation,” Fenves said in a message to the university community. “These events make it clear, now more than ever, that Confederate monuments have become symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism.”
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It is a total lack of courage and intellectualism...they will eventually run out of lib brats..then what? Perhaps UT can be purged from publicly supported institutions and turned into a parking lot. Austin is VERY LOW on parking spots
With the expunging of history, we are now officially living a Soviet existence. The frog’s been cooked. The media are Public Enemy Number 1, buying into this purge, modeled after those in the Roman Empire, where opposition leaders’ names and those of historical leaders were expunged by political enemies.
A while back, t.u. removed the statues of Jefferson Davis and another fellow who I cannot recall now. The other statue was one of the founders of the school.
Ignorant children.
Keep Austin Soviet
It receives public funding. Why isn’t the Texas government taking action against this censure of Texas’ proud past?
I spoke with a black friend, and he has a split view of confederate hero statues.
1. His history from the deep south makes certain he is descended from slave ancestors.
2. He does find confederate statues in public venues to be an in your face to blacks.
3. He does understand that history made these men important to those who followed them in combat and for those who lost loved ones in those wars.
4. He sees no problem with such statues and other art being associated with confederate era cemeteries, battlefields, and museums.
5. He does think they are rude to blacks when disconnected from their era and simply placed in a city square or other public place decades or a century after the fact.
6. He would support moving them to a civil war battlefield, cemetery, or museum.
Ping
the Berserkley of Texas. Real Texans ought to be ashamed.
And because of the color of his skin, his opinion should prevail?
Eventually moving them to museums won’t be enough for these Stalinist goons.
Surprise.....don’t they know that Austin was a slave owner????
Run a couple thousand volts through it.
It’s a good, honest opinion. One of the better that I’ve heard, actually.
It eats itself, logic is not your friend’s strong suit
I think the logic is impeccable.
Fenves - undergraduate degree from Cornell, PhD from UC Berkeley. Sounds like a good Texan to me.
May be because confederate policy of just fine with slavery is not in tune with 21st century thinking?
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