Confederate Memorial in Indianapolis to be removed <smh>

Henry0Reilly

June 08, 2020 11:56

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis will remove from a park a monument dedicated to Confederate soldiers who died at a Union prison camp in the city, the mayor announced Thursday.

The grave monument, which was relocated to Garfield Park nearly a century ago from its original location in a cemetery, will be dismantled by contractors in the coming days, Mayor Joe Hogsett said.

“Our streets are filled with voices of anger and anguish, testament to centuries of racism directed at Black Americans,” Hogsett said in a news release. “We must name these instances of discrimination and never forget our past – but we should not honor them.

“Whatever original purpose this grave marker might once have had, for far too long it has served as nothing more than a painful reminder of our state’s horrific embrace of the Ku Klux Klan a century ago,” he said.

The monument was commissioned in 1912 in Greenlawn Cemetery to commemorate Confederate prisoners of war who died while imprisoned at Camp Morton in Indianapolis. It was moved to Garfield Park in 1928 following efforts by public officials active in the Klan who sought to “make the monument more visible to the public,” the news released said.

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  spasmcreeksrun

  June 08, 2020 12:22

  SHAMEFUL CRAP.....POW camps during the civil war on both sides were death pits of disease and starvation......those on either side stood up and fought for their beliefs deserve to be honorably remembered.......maybe now there will be a NEW PC designation for those that bravely came forth to claim their welfare and dependency monies....i can see a statue of a screaming charging protester with loot under an arm and a  molotov cocktail in one hand with a Raven 25 in the other being dedicated to the brave soldiers of the Welfare & Reparations War

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  select-fire

  June 08, 2020 12:34

  And you want that Felon Floyd honored... LMAO
  

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  serf

  June 08, 2020 13:17

  Lets's wait and see how they manage the welfare state and have the middle class blacks pay for it. This whole mess is empowerment of Poor blacks looking for whatever they can get and white cops and southern monuments is just a rally point.

     In the end they will inherit more poverty and chaos because of their lack of skills and lawlessness in demanding justice.

     Justice will not make jobs and posterity only a third world nanny state like Venezuela will.
  

  When they rally against the 2nd amendment and it's meaning it will be the last straw for many.
  

         
  

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