Monday, September 18, 2017

Confederate monument can't be moved in Virginia Beach, city attorney says

Via Susan

Virginia Beach Confederate monument

Norfolk and Portsmouth city leaders have vowed to move their Confederate monuments out of public view.

Around the country, similar emblems have been coming down, too, in places like Baltimore and Dallas.

But in Virginia Beach? It’s unlikely.

City Attorney Mark Stiles issued an opinion that the Confederate monument built more than a century ago outside of the former Princess Anne County Courthouse can’t be moved.

He relied on a 1904 law that says war memorials in counties can’t be disturbed or interfered with.

5 comments:

  1. I do not like this moving of our monuments at all. This scheme to deny us of our history must come to an end. Regardless of where one sits on this discussion, this is all part of our history. Leave it alone.

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  2. For listening pleasure:
    http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Fourteen-Months-in-American-Bastiles

    a question:
    I have not heard anything of John C. Calhoun statues. When is the teologian of slavery getting on the agenda ?


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    1. Thanks and http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=4865&highlight=howard&sid=eebe8f4823621ca65231f334a71cfbe3

      Calhoun: https://news.yale.edu/2017/02/11/yale-change-calhoun-college-s-name-honor-grace-murray-hopper-0

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