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Weep not for the removal from the University of Texas-Austin grounds of a statue.<\/p>\n

It is of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.<\/p>\n

The statue removal has been the subject of considerable angst at the campus. In the end, a judge said the statue could be removed.\u00a0 So today it was taken down, wrapped up, put on a truck and will be taken to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.<\/p>\n

It need not be shown in a public place where everyone — including those who could be offended by a statue depicting someone who led the secessionist movement in the 19th century.<\/p>\n

Davis statue comes down<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s one more action taken in the wake of that monstrous shooting in Charleston, S.C., of nine African-Americans by someone who allegedly declared his intention to start a race war. A young man has been charged with the crime and this young man is known to have racist views and has been pictured with symbols of the Confederacy.<\/p>\n

Do you get why the Jefferson Davis statue might be highly offensive, say, to many of the students and faculty members at UT-Austin?<\/p>\n

According to the Texas Tribune: “UT Student Body President\u00a0Xavier Rotnofsky \u2014\u00a0who proposed the removal of the statue as part of his satirical campaign \u2014\u00a0said the fight is over and he is\u00a0happy to see the statue being moved.<\/p>\n

\u201c’It\u2019s very satisfying,’ Rotnofsky said. ‘What started off as a very far-fetched idea during the campaign \u2014 we came through with and the school year has barely started.’<\/p>\n

“He said\u00a0the national conversation after the South Carolina shooting\u00a0and the passion of students on UT’s\u00a0campus made the removal possible.”<\/p>\n

Yes, Davis is a historical figure in the strictest definition of the word. He also was a traitor to the United States of America. Has anyone lately seen any statues, for instance, of Benedict Arnold?<\/p>\n

So, put Davis’s likeness in a museum, where it can be looked at and studied by those with an interest in the Civil War.<\/p>\n

And be sure it includes all the reasons that Davis and the Confederacy went to war against the Union in the first place.<\/p>\n\n

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Weep not for the removal from the University of Texas-Austin grounds of a statue. It is of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The statue removal has been the subject of considerable angst at the campus. In the end, a judge said the statue could be removed.\u00a0 So today it was taken down, wrapped up, put on … Continue reading So long, President Davis<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[927,1014,1108,5411,5068],"class_list":["post-10778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","category-uncategorized","tag-charleston-shooting","tag-civil-war","tag-confederate-states-of-america","tag-jefferson-davis","tag-ut-austin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10780,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions\/10780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}