{"id":34803,"date":"2019-01-11T17:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T17:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34803"},"modified":"2019-01-11T17:43:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T17:43:01","slug":"the-civil-war-plaque-is-coming-down-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34803","title":{"rendered":"The Civil War plaque is coming down! Yes!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Texas Republicans must be smitten with a rash of reason and sanity.<\/p>\n

The GOP-influenced State Preservation Board<\/a> that oversees the Texas Capitol grounds has voted to remove a plaque that declares that the Confederacy did not launch a “rebellion” that started the Civil War and that the bloody conflict’s “underlying cause” was not to “sustain slavery.”<\/p>\n

Of course it was to allow states to keep slaves and it most certainly was a “rebellion” ignited by the Confederate States of America.<\/p>\n

The plaque was installed by the Children of the Confederate Creed. It had been the subject of a yearlong string of complaints from those who called it historically false.<\/p>\n

Gov. Greg Abbott, who chairs the board, called for the plaque’s removal, as did House Speaker Dennis Bonnen. State Rep. Jeff Leach, a Plano Republican who was just appointed to the board by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, said, “If I had a sledgehammer in my office, I’d go up there right now and remove it. But I’m told that’s not necessary as it will be removed very soon.”<\/p>\n

There you have it. Reason has prevailed.<\/p>\n

The plaque needs to come down. Thank goodness it will.<\/p>\n\n

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Texas Republicans must be smitten with a rash of reason and sanity. The GOP-influenced State Preservation Board that oversees the Texas Capitol grounds has voted to remove a plaque that declares that the Confederacy did not launch a “rebellion” that started the Civil War and that the bloody conflict’s “underlying cause” was not to “sustain … Continue reading The Civil War plaque is coming down! Yes!<\/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],"tags":[1014,1108,1255,2006,4286],"class_list":["post-34803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-civil-war","tag-confederate-states-of-america","tag-dan-patrick","tag-greg-abbott","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34803","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=34803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34805,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34803\/revisions\/34805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}