Discussion: UT Austin To Relocate Jefferson Davis Statute To Educational Exhibit

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Old Jeff is familiar with retreating.

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Or to the Texas Memorial Museum with the other dinosaur fossils on campus. (No shame really. Coolest Pterosaur on Earth is there.)
http://tmm.utexas.edu/exhibits/pterosaur/images/pterosaur.jpg

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Not Jefferson Davis! Not him two! Its all ab out heritiage and also to about tradition respect as well. Respect for our war dead and the evil that was done to the Southern States over our right to have rights. States RIGHTS! Also to the BIBLE supports slavery so it wasnt realy about that!

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Now that’s going to cause a lot of butt-hurt! Look for Gov. Abbott to seek funding cuts to University of Texas-Austin.

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President Fenves may think he has resolved the controversy by removing the most controversial statute in the set, but he has not. I strongly suspect that UT’s students and the broader community will find it very odd that UT has made a considered decision to keep its statute of Robert E. Lee. Yes, Davis is even worse. But Robert E. Lee? Seriously?

This will not be the last word, and Fenves may not be the last UT president to deal with this controversy. It’ll go on until the whole set of confederate statutes and the racist inscription on the fountain at the foot of the campus are moved and put under glass in a museum.

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The real hero on UT campus is Santa Rita No. 1–the oil rig that started the cash flow from the “University Lands” to the University coffers. (You can see the light supports for DKR Memorial Stadium in the background. So this is a twofer of sacred UT monuments.)

http://www.utsystem.edu/bfl/images/santarit.gif

http://www.utsystem.edu/bfl/santarit.html

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Well at least someone has some sense there. Now watch, Governor Abbott or that indicted TX Attorney General Paxton step in and demand “This will not stand”.

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Actually, the best place for the Davis statue is behind a lectern with the rest of the GOP presidential candidates.

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Yes. There is a whiff of “Go slow”-ism to this that, as a native Texan myself, I understand but don’t condone. I suspect part of the caution is due to the fact that Fenves has been president only since about the beginning of the summer; but that doesn’t explain all the caution.

It’s the old argument, isn’t it, about whether it’s better to remove the bandage slowly or to just rip it off and get it over with.

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There is also a lovely statue/monument to the confederacy that sits right in front of the capitol in Austin.

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Hogg’s statue…well, the fact that this guy was a past governor of Texas is enough. Extra points for actually naming his daughter ‘Ima.’.

But Johnston and Reagan? Traitors. Just like Davis.
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About time history is retired to where it belongs…more please.