A North Carolina appeals court ruled Tuesday that local leaders who refused calls to remove a Confederate monument from outside a county courthouse acted in a constitutional manner and kept in place the statue at its longtime location in accordance with state law.
The three-judge panel unanimously upheld a trial court judge’s decision to side with Alamance County and its commissioners over the 30 foot (9.1 meter)-tall statue, which features a Confederate infantryman perched at the top. The state NAACP, the Alamance NAACP chapter, and other groups and individuals had sued the county and its leaders in 2021 after the commissioners rejected calls to take the statue down.
Confederate monuments in North Carolina, as elsewhere nationwide, were a frequent focal point for racial inequality protests in the late 2010s, and particularly in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. North Carolina legislators enacted a law in 2015 that limits when an “object of remembrance” such as a military monument can be relocated.
From my understanding this is a monument to represent the common soldier who died not any particular person of note. IMHO we should keep the statues of the common men tricked into suck wars even if they were on the wrong and losing side. In my opinion, it is important to remember the human cost. Not glorify any leaders.
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Eh… they were still members of a a counter government and military to the US, so ‘traitors’. And the common people that fought for them were fighting for the right of the southern states to support and continue slavery of a people they deemed ‘lesser’.
Have your cemeteries and museum memorials, but have them as private organizations and move your statues from Government land. This government and the states within it are the US, not the Confederacy, and their defeated enemy shouldn’t be honored on their grounds.
Especially since the Daughters of the Confederacy did a massive push to have statues and memorials built in southern states during Reconstruction and the Civil Rights movement to scare and disenfranchise newly freed slaves who had fought for their voting rights, as well.