North Carolina appeals court upholds ruling that kept Confederate monument in place
North Carolina appeals court upholds ruling that kept Confederate monument in place
A North Carolina appeals court has ruled in a case involving a Confederate monument standing outside a central North Carolina courthouse.
A North Carolina appeals court ruled Tuesday that local leaders who refused calls to remove a Confederate monument from outside a county courthouse acted in a constitutional manner and kept in place the statue at its longtime location in accordance with state law.
The three-judge panel unanimously upheld a trial court judge’s decision to side with Alamance County and its commissioners over the 30 foot (9.1 meter)-tall statue, which features a Confederate infantryman perched at the top. The state NAACP, the Alamance NAACP chapter, and other groups and individuals had sued the county and its leaders in 2021 after the commissioners rejected calls to take the statue down.
Confederate monuments in North Carolina, as elsewhere nationwide, were a frequent focal point for racial inequality protests in the late 2010s, and particularly in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. North Carolina legislators enacted a law in 2015 that limits when an “object of remembrance” such as a military monument can be relocated.
I guess now we have to remove it the hard way
The hard way involves enveloping the county in the progressive corridor down 85 and pushing out the commissioners who allow it to stay up. I'd much rather see it knocked down and flattened with rented construction equipment.
hard way
That's a strange way to spell "fun way".
Imagine if Germany allowed Hitler monuments... or worse, as in Atlanta, carved portraits of the Nazi leadership into the side of a mountain...
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Stone mountain is Georgia state property:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain
They just hired a management company to help run it.
The state government of Georgia had everything to do with its creation. It was purchased by the state of Georgia in 1958, and the state explicitly authorized finishing the carving through the stone mountain memorial association act, passed in the same year, using public funds to help finance it. The carving wasn't complete until 1970.
Georgia had to honor the birthplace of the kkk during the height of the Civil rights movement of course. It's not a subtle message.
The German government building monuments to nazis analogy is apt.
From my understanding this is a monument to represent the common soldier who died not any particular person of note. IMHO we should keep the statues of the common men tricked into suck wars even if they were on the wrong and losing side. In my opinion, it is important to remember the human cost. Not glorify any leaders.
Eh… they were still members of a a counter government and military to the US, so ‘traitors’. And the common people that fought for them were fighting for the right of the southern states to support and continue slavery of a people they deemed ‘lesser’.
Have your cemeteries and museum memorials, but have them as private organizations and move your statues from Government land. This government and the states within it are the US, not the Confederacy, and their defeated enemy shouldn’t be honored on their grounds.
Especially since the Daughters of the Confederacy did a massive push to have statues and memorials built in southern states during Reconstruction and the Civil Rights movement to scare and disenfranchise newly freed slaves who had fought for their voting rights, as well.
The Republican party, where objects are more important than people.
That's generous. Idealised concepts are more important than people to the Republican party.
Hypothetically, how large of a vehicle accidentally smashing into the monument , would it take to damage said monument beyond repair?
Problem is, it’s on top of a pedestal that, itself, is on top of a huge stone plinth. You’d have to knock down quite a lot of huge stuff at the base in order to topple the offending statue on top. 
The best course of action would be to climb up to the top and tie a bunch of rope or chains to the statue, then climb down and tie the ropes and/or chains to a vehicle at the bottom, and simply yank the statue off the top of the pedestal.
Or just attach explosives to the statue when you climb up to the top and blow it up.  that would certainly be both quicker and increase the likelihood of getting away. Although, if you did get caught, the criminal charges would be far, far worse.
I remember when this was aired live on the news and called freedom.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firdos_Square_statue_destruction