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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The Taliban also remove historical monuments they don’t like…
Yeaaaaaaaaaa, finally a judge with a brain
Yes ! Keep our history and learn from it. All the American history need to be taught again. Children of to day are ignorant and need to no the true American history. Clear down to the American Indians on up. That is all that should be taught. No other country but our own. If they do not like it they can leave. I do not like what has happen since Obama has brought in Muslim and let the illegals flood in to our country. It is time to fight back for our own country.
It is time to “stop” the removal of our history from our country..If our history offends you I suggest you find another place that suites you better to live.
Good news
so will these history deniers try to remove Nelson’s Column in Londond next? unless these uneducated radicals are stopped they will re-write history to their own liking – the truth sometimes is ugly but it is the truth as we all deserve to know it.
whats next …a crime to watch Gone with the Wind?
Leave history alone.
Mary Carmel …. so we are back to the “it’s the all the Jews fault”… or am I misunderstanding what you have said.
Yay for Ky. having guts to stand up for what is right and not bowing own to critics