CONFEDERATE STATUE Monument's future sparking hot debate among petitioners (TN)

ClevelandBanner.com ^ | June 12, 2020 | Tim Siniard

[Tennessee Nana]

A number of opposing petitions have been posted online to counter one posted Monday by a Lee University student that advocated for the removal of a Confederate statue that has stood at a downtown Cleveland intersection since the Jim Crow era.

Differences in opinion regarding the statue have resulted in sharp, often bitter debate on the Cleveland Daily Banner’s Facebook page, highlighting the complicated history residents of Cleveland and other Southern cities share as they examine their pasts.

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The first Cleveland anti-statue petition, posted by Lee student Kelsey Elaine, listed several grievances against the monument, which was erected in 1910 by the Daughters of the Confederacy at the intersection of Ocoee, Broad and Eighth streets.

Her petition was posted on change.org. It has garnered more than 5,000 signatures.

[cowboyusa]

There are pictures of Carter, and Clinton with Confderate flags.

[Taxman]

I was not speaking of Columbus. The Southern generals and politicians whose statues were destroyed or taken down were Democrats,

I am as opposed to these idiots taking down these statues as anyone in the USA!

I was born in Richmond, and I remember well the statues on Monument Avenue.

I am American by birth and Southern by the Grace of God!

Southerners fought for States Rights, and the heroes of the South do not deserve the treatment they receive FRom the “woke” crowd!

The noxious, venomous LIEberals who are engaged in this unlawful activity are purely despicable, and their actions almost guarantee a Democrat loss in November!

I find it ironic that the Democrat Party supports destroying statues of (mostly) Democrats who were prominent in our history.

[Taxman]

LOL!

Why, never! He is a hero to this ignorant bunch!