{"id":35483,"date":"2019-02-14T19:55:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T19:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35483"},"modified":"2019-02-14T19:55:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T19:55:17","slug":"another-confederate-monument-to-come-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35483","title":{"rendered":"Another Confederate monument to come down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Dallas City Council has joined the chorus of governing bodies to speak out against the memorialization of a struggle that sought to destroy the United States of America.<\/p>\n

Voting 11-4, the council decided to remove a Confederate war memorial from property near City Hall in downtown Dallas.<\/p>\n

I will stand and cheer the council’s decision.<\/p>\n

The monument, as stated at the council meeting, is “non-contributing structure for the historic overlay district.” I guess that’s some sort of code that means the structure is of no discernable value.<\/p>\n

Bring it down! The council voted to spend $480,000 to disassemble and remove it.<\/p>\n

Confederate War Memorial is coming down<\/a><\/p>\n

Statues such as this have a place in museums. They don’t belong necessarily on public property. Other communities have been going through this debate for some time. They are taking down these structures — statues, plaques, engravings, etc. — that commemorate the Civil War, the nation’s bloodiest conflict.<\/p>\n

Let’s not be coy or cagey about why the Confederacy came into being: Those states wanted to retain the power to enslave human beings, to relegate them to be the “property” of slave owners.<\/p>\n

To preserve that hideous policy, they formed the Confederate States of America and then some Confederate troops opened fire on the Union garrison in Charleston Bay, S.C.<\/p>\n

Thus, in April 1861, the Civil War began with an act of treason!<\/p>\n

We shouldn’t honor <\/em>such an act.<\/p>\n\n

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The Dallas City Council has joined the chorus of governing bodies to speak out against the memorialization of a struggle that sought to destroy the United States of America. Voting 11-4, the council decided to remove a Confederate war memorial from property near City Hall in downtown Dallas. I will stand and cheer the council’s … Continue reading Another Confederate monument to come down<\/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":[9],"tags":[1014,1104,1108,8305,7626,4899],"class_list":["post-35483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-civil-war","tag-confederacy","tag-confederate-states-of-america","tag-dallas-city-council","tag-the-union","tag-treason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35483","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=35483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35484,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35483\/revisions\/35484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}