Post by the Scribe on Jun 11, 2020 1:01:04 GMT
Monuments deemed racist topple in wake of George Floyd's killing
news.yahoo.com/tracker-monument-statue-removal-floyd-protests-confederate-racist-204705465.html?.tsrc=notification-brknews
Christopher Wilson,Yahoo News•June 10, 2020
One consequence of the worldwide protests sparked by the death of African-American George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police has been a renewed focus on removing monuments long deemed racist. Some governments are trying to get ahead of demonstrators, removing statues so they can be relocated, while other monuments have been toppled by protesters.
Since 2015, when a Confederate sympathizer killed nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., there has been a renewed push for the removal of Confederate iconography and monuments to historical figures and events viewed as racist. These efforts redoubled following a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 in protest of the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue there.
Here is a rundown of all the monuments that have been removed since the protests over Floyd’s death began:
news.yahoo.com/tracker-monument-statue-removal-floyd-protests-confederate-racist-204705465.html?.tsrc=notification-brknews
news.yahoo.com/tracker-monument-statue-removal-floyd-protests-confederate-racist-204705465.html?.tsrc=notification-brknews
Christopher Wilson,Yahoo News•June 10, 2020
One consequence of the worldwide protests sparked by the death of African-American George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police has been a renewed focus on removing monuments long deemed racist. Some governments are trying to get ahead of demonstrators, removing statues so they can be relocated, while other monuments have been toppled by protesters.
Since 2015, when a Confederate sympathizer killed nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., there has been a renewed push for the removal of Confederate iconography and monuments to historical figures and events viewed as racist. These efforts redoubled following a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 in protest of the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue there.
Here is a rundown of all the monuments that have been removed since the protests over Floyd’s death began:
news.yahoo.com/tracker-monument-statue-removal-floyd-protests-confederate-racist-204705465.html?.tsrc=notification-brknews