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Statues: Florida replacing statue of Confederate general in US Capitol with Mary Bethune
Posted on 3/22/18 at 7:30 am
Posted on 3/22/18 at 7:30 am
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Edmund Kirby Smith
-West Point
-Mexican-American War
-Confederate General in the Civil War (last Confederate general to surrender and fled to Mexico for a time after the war)
-Professor at University of the South (Sewanee)
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Mary McLeod Bethune
-Worked to promote civil rights, especially for black women, through various organizations
-Advocate for education, which led to the next bullet
-Started school that would eventually become Bethune-Cookman University
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed a bill Tuesday ordering that a statue of a Confederate general at the U.S. Capitol be removed and replaced with one of an African-American woman.
The statue of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith will be removed from Statuary Hall and replaced with a monument to Mary McLeod Bethune, The Associated Press reported Tuesday.
Bethune founded the institution that would go on to become Bethune-Cookman University, a historically black university in Daytona Beach, Fla.
The statue will also be the first monument of an African-American woman in Statuary Hall, according to the AP.
Leaving
Edmund Kirby Smith
-West Point
-Mexican-American War
-Confederate General in the Civil War (last Confederate general to surrender and fled to Mexico for a time after the war)
-Professor at University of the South (Sewanee)
Going Up
Mary McLeod Bethune
-Worked to promote civil rights, especially for black women, through various organizations
-Advocate for education, which led to the next bullet
-Started school that would eventually become Bethune-Cookman University
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Posted on 3/22/18 at 7:32 am to GetCocky11
Posted on 3/22/18 at 7:32 am to GetCocky11
Florida is desperately trying to get their brand redone since they are considered one of the "crazy" places in the states.
Posted on 3/22/18 at 7:35 am to GetCocky11
quote:
Edmund Kirby Smith
-West Point
-Mexican-American War
-Confederate General in the Civil War (last Confederate general to surrender and fled to Mexico for a time after the war)
-Professor at University of the South (Sewanee)
You left out:
-became barista at local hipster coffee shop.
This post was edited on 3/22/18 at 10:59 am
Posted on 3/22/18 at 7:38 am to GetCocky11
I feel like a statue of Corrine Brown would be much more representative of Florida.
Posted on 3/22/18 at 7:40 am to GetCocky11
You know, they could have left the general up and just stuck the woman up too.
No reason to destroy history
No reason to destroy history
Posted on 3/22/18 at 7:41 am to GetCocky11
Looking at the statues, other Confederates who are still there include:
Joseph Wheeler - Alabama
Alexander Stephens - Georgia
Jefferson Davis - Mississippi
James Z. George - Mississippi
Zebulon Vance - North Carolina
Wade Hampton - South Carolina
Robert E Lee - Virginia
Joseph Wheeler - Alabama
Alexander Stephens - Georgia
Jefferson Davis - Mississippi
James Z. George - Mississippi
Zebulon Vance - North Carolina
Wade Hampton - South Carolina
Robert E Lee - Virginia
Posted on 3/22/18 at 8:17 am to GetCocky11
At least they have a plan in place instead of the usual shitshow we get.. they also had the audacity to go through legislation, what a novel idea.
Posted on 3/22/18 at 8:20 am to GetCocky11
I mean I don't agree with the legislation but at least they didn't go all trash bag like Mitch. There was a democratic process involved unlike in NOLA
Posted on 3/22/18 at 8:30 am to GetCocky11
Color me shocked.
Posted on 3/22/18 at 8:37 am to GetCocky11
In 50 years, statues of white men will be collector's items. I'm going to start buying now.
Posted on 3/22/18 at 8:41 am to GetCocky11
quote:
Advocate for education
quote:
Bethune-Cookman University,
for black people...not racist
Posted on 3/22/18 at 8:43 am to GetCocky11
So does each state get to choose a statue in the Capitol ? Because I feel like Alabama will start petitioning for having a Nick Saban statue there pretty soon.
This post was edited on 3/22/18 at 8:54 am
Posted on 3/22/18 at 8:47 am to tigerpimpbot
I'm fine with it because of the process, as others have said.
Posted on 3/22/18 at 8:49 am to GetCocky11
I know her...she works at the Popeye's over on Carrollton.
Posted on 3/22/18 at 8:51 am to upgrayedd
Once again, this began with Nikki Haley and the Confederate Flag. Let's all give a big frick you to the chameleon whose flip-flop served as precedent for others to follow, which has resulted in politically correct America giving the Taliban and ISIS a run for its money in destroying historical monuments and statues.
Posted on 3/22/18 at 8:52 am to SCLibertarian
quote:
Once again, this began with Nikki Haley and the Confederate Flag.
That flag had no business flying on the grounds of the State House.
Posted on 3/22/18 at 8:55 am to GetCocky11
If folks want to play this silly statue game then remove all and replace with water features or landscape rocks, or something neutral.
Posted on 3/22/18 at 8:57 am to GetCocky11
Every African American member of the General Assembly agreed to put it there in 2000. And given the flag was right next to the monument honoring the South Carolinians who died defending their state, how is their anything wrong with it? Where does it end? You want to tear down every statue of a pre-Civil Rights white man on the statehouse grounds? Rename streets and buildings at USC? That's the road we're headed down because of white-guilt liberals.
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