A new round of debate over monuments honoring Confederate soldiers has been ignited by a controversial court order in Kentucky.
Ruling against Louisville Mayor Greg Fisher and the city government, Jefferson County Circuit judge Judith McDonald-Burke issued an injunction blocking any attempts to remove a Confederate memorial not too far from the University of Louisville.
The restraining order was filed by a number of persons and organizations, not least of which were Republican congressional candidate Everett Corley, political activist Ed Springston, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and Kentucky Division.
Echoing the concerns of many Southerners, the plaintiffs argue that removing the memorial and others like it will do nothing to make up for the past wrongs they supposedly represent and disrespect the men they are meant to honor.
But Mayor Fisher and his allies are not willing to let this go on. Instead, they intend to appeal the matter further, in the hope that a more sympathetic judge will not let them go ahead with their plan to move the memorial elsewhere.
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your right.. they are veterans and were Americans…. they fought for what they believed in and it was just as much their country as it was ours.. this country put pressure to take down the Confederate because of a certain group of people didn’t like it and they said it created racism and violence. Well, then we should protest rap music because it promotes violence,racism, and killing
HISTORY.
Yeah good job judge
Good for the sensible judge.
Thank you Judge, common sense finally!
Thank You Judge great that ther are Judges who still have Brains !!
Leave it alone!
Good history is history
Good about time someone woke up !
Try all you want, can’t erase history.