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Protestors pulled down a Confederate statue in Durham
Posted on 8/14/17 at 6:49 pm
Posted on 8/14/17 at 6:49 pm
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DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) – A crowd of protesters gathered outside the old Durham County courthouse on Main Street Monday evening in opposition to a Confederate monument in front of the government building.
Moments later, The crowd pulled on the rope and the statue fell. One man quickly ran up and spat on the statue and several others began kicking it.
In 1924, the Confederate statue was dedicated to Durham.
Engraved on the front of the monument is “The Confederate States of America.”
Above it, is a statue representing a soldier who fought in the civil war.
“It needs to be removed,” Loan Tran, an organizer, said earlier Monday. “These Confederate statues in Durham, in North Carolina, all across the country.”
There are similar monuments in several cities around North Carolina.
Tran doesn’t want to see it anymore.
“When I see a Confederate statue in downtown Durham, or really anywhere, it fills me with a lot of rage and frustration,” she said.
Organizers say tonight’s protest is a reaction to the events in Charlottesville this past weekend.
“People can be mobilized and people are angry and when enough people are angry, we don’t have to look to politicians to sit around in air conditions and do nothing when we can do things ourselves,” said Takiyah Thompson, a protester.
The statue is on county property.
In an email to CBS North Carolina, Durham County spokeswoman Dawn Dudley says:
“Due to a North Carolina state law passed a few years ago, Durham County is prohibited from removing or making substantive alteration to historical monuments and memorials. I share this to say that there is a statute in place making the efforts you mention below difficult to move forward. I would assume that the only thing possible are steps to reverse the law.”
This statue has been the center of controversy before after graffiti was spray painted on it a few years ago.
The group that met Monday say their purpose is to “smash white supremacy.”
DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) – A crowd of protesters gathered outside the old Durham County courthouse on Main Street Monday evening in opposition to a Confederate monument in front of the government building.
Moments later, The crowd pulled on the rope and the statue fell. One man quickly ran up and spat on the statue and several others began kicking it.
In 1924, the Confederate statue was dedicated to Durham.
Engraved on the front of the monument is “The Confederate States of America.”
Above it, is a statue representing a soldier who fought in the civil war.
“It needs to be removed,” Loan Tran, an organizer, said earlier Monday. “These Confederate statues in Durham, in North Carolina, all across the country.”
There are similar monuments in several cities around North Carolina.
Tran doesn’t want to see it anymore.
“When I see a Confederate statue in downtown Durham, or really anywhere, it fills me with a lot of rage and frustration,” she said.
Organizers say tonight’s protest is a reaction to the events in Charlottesville this past weekend.
“People can be mobilized and people are angry and when enough people are angry, we don’t have to look to politicians to sit around in air conditions and do nothing when we can do things ourselves,” said Takiyah Thompson, a protester.
The statue is on county property.
In an email to CBS North Carolina, Durham County spokeswoman Dawn Dudley says:
“Due to a North Carolina state law passed a few years ago, Durham County is prohibited from removing or making substantive alteration to historical monuments and memorials. I share this to say that there is a statute in place making the efforts you mention below difficult to move forward. I would assume that the only thing possible are steps to reverse the law.”
This statue has been the center of controversy before after graffiti was spray painted on it a few years ago.
The group that met Monday say their purpose is to “smash white supremacy.”
This post was edited on 8/14/17 at 6:51 pm
Posted on 8/14/17 at 6:50 pm to Collegedropout
They should all be arrested for destruction of property.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 6:52 pm to Collegedropout
Good. Y'all idiots need to stop clinging to the losing and racist sides of history
Posted on 8/14/17 at 6:53 pm to Collegedropout
Avoiding the laws and taking matters into your own hands is the wrong thing to do. Of course that is what these idiots are accustomed to with nothing happening to them.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 6:54 pm to Collegedropout
so it's ok to destroy property in the name of social justice? Got it
Posted on 8/14/17 at 6:55 pm to Collegedropout
quote:
Loan Tran
Asian privilege
Posted on 8/14/17 at 6:55 pm to TH03
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Good. Y'all idiots need to stop clinging to the losing and racist sides of history
Every nation on earth has had losing and racism as part of their history.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 6:56 pm to Collegedropout
This board sure loves statues.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 6:56 pm to TH03
quote:
Good. Y'all idiots need to stop clinging to the losing and racist sides of history
This, those statues are the biggest participation trophies ever. No need to celebrate losers.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 6:56 pm to TH03
I don't see anyone around the world looking to destroy the concentration camps that killed millions of Jews. It's history not good history but history. Learn from poor judgements don't act like they never happened.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 6:56 pm to Collegedropout
quote:
“When I see a Confederate statue in downtown Durham, or really anywhere, it fills me with a lot of rage and frustration,” she said.
Amazing how the increasing homeless population, crime & neglected kids never fills these people with frustration & rage
If they would pay attention to the future instead of trying to erase the past this country would be much better off
Posted on 8/14/17 at 6:58 pm to Collegedropout
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Loan Tran
I feel really bad about how the South treated our Vietnamese-American citizens during the 19th Century.
Oh, wait a second....
Posted on 8/14/17 at 6:58 pm to Collegedropout
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“It needs to be removed,” Loan Tran, an organizer, said earlier Monday. “These Confederate statues in Durham, in North Carolina, all across the country.”
quote:
Ngoc Loan Tran
Director at Youth Organizing Institute
Durham, North CarolinaPolitical Organization
Current
Youth Organizing Institute, Southern Vision Alliance, varies
Previous
Youth Organizing Institute
quote:
ng?c loan tr?n is a Vi?t/mixed-race immigrant, queer and gender weird disabled writer, storyteller and aspiring educator. loan was born in southeast asia and came to the united states with their mother, father and older brother in the mid-90's. loan and their family ultimately made home in the U.S South where they feel deeply and spiritually connected to the sacred legacies of survival, resistance, beauty and creation of this region. loan's justice work over the past few years has been centered around racial and im/migrant justice, queer and trans liberation, economic justice and an end to all kinds of interpersonal violence.
Immigrant trans "gender weird" storytellers have finally achieved justice against the Confederate statue that's been keeping them down since they arrived in this country in the 1990's.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 7:00 pm to Collegedropout
Mark my words, every confederate monument in this country will be destroyed inside the next 6 months including cemetery monuments.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 7:00 pm to Collegedropout
So what did these "protesters" look like?
Posted on 8/14/17 at 7:01 pm to PowerTool
He probably gave his parents up for murder in the Cambodia Death Fields.
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