Discussion: UT Austin Moves Jefferson Davis Statue To Museum

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Sons of Confederate Veterans, which sued to stop the university from moving it

Still fighting the war I see. Hot flash–you lost.

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Sons of Confederate Veterans, which sued to stop the university from moving it

Maybe they shouldn’t have hired a lawyer who spent much of the the 1990s representing the Ku Klux Klan to argue their case.

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Finished my celebratory dance…another one bites the dust. Hurrah!

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The actress Julianne Moore and other alumni of J.E.B Stuart High School in VA are behind a change.org petition to rename it after Thurgood Marshall. Stuart was a Confederate general who was killed in battle. Good.

That’s right, J.E.B., just like the candidate named bush…

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Had the JEB Stuart statue miraculously come to life–
and witnessed the ethnic makeup of the student body at UT?
It would have walked to the museum by itself.

jw1

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Putting it in the museum seems reasonable enough. Hopefully with some commentary about lost cause attempts to refight the war afterward.

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Bravo U of Texas… I commend you for doing what’s right…but still, Go Vols, sorry.

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I wish they would of picked it up by a noose around it’s neck —

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The approach to the tower was framed by two statues: George Washington on the right and Jefferson Davis on the left, as if they were historical equivalents. Nowhere on campus is a statue of Sam Houston, the first president of the Republic of Texas and first governor of the state of Texas. Houston was an ardent opponent of secession whose rational thinking ran contrary to the zealots very much like those who run the state now.

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