Posted on 10/02/2021 8:43:29 PM PDT by algore
A Georgia Democrat has been slammed for saying she would rather keep a Confederate statue than raise a monument to black conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
State Rep. Donna McLeod, who is also black and was born in Jamaica, told the Atlanta-Journal Constitution she strongly opposes the idea of a statue for the conservative justice, who was appointed to the court in 1991 amid allegations of sexual harassment.
McLeod is so against the proposal that she would prefer to leave standing monuments to the likes of Confederate soldiers and slave owners, she said.
'I'd rather them keep a Confederate monument than a statue of Clarence Thomas,' she said.
'That's how much I don't like the idea.'
Her comments come as statues of racist and Confederate figures have been removed or toppled across America over the last year after the murder of George Floyd sparked nationwide protests demanding an end to systemic racism.
There are four Confederate statues on the grounds of the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta including a statue of Confederate General John Brown Gordon on a horse.
Gordon is generally regarded as the leader of Georgia's Ku Klux Klan.
Protesters called for its removal last year
The Capitol is also the site of a monument to Alexander Hamilton Stephens, who was the vice president of the Confederacy and claimed slavery was the 'natural and normal condition' of black people.
There's also statues of Joseph Brown - the state governor when Georgia was a Confederate state - and Confederate senator Benjamin Harvey Hill.
The debate over a monument honoring Thomas arose after several Georgia Republicans backed a proposal to erect a statue of Thomas outside the state Capitol in honor of the justice who hails from Pin Point, Montgomery.
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Just how many Antifa-ers and BLMers would want a statue of Clarence Thomas in and of itself?
Justice Clarence Thomas is a horse of a different color.
I cannot think of any sentient person who would fail to predict this.
its a non-starter choice
i reject the manipulation
keep the confedetate monument, its history, we dont erase our history becauseits not all wonderful
and then make something for clarence thomas
Why not have both? that would send an even stronger message!
If you have not seen the movie about Clarence Thomas I highly recommend it. https://www.justicethomasmovie.com/
I’d rather them keep a Confederate monument than a statue of Clarence Thomas.
Oops the race card isn’t about race after all it’s about hate not being liberal exposed.
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