A North Carolina appeals court ruled Tuesday that local leaders who refused calls to remove a Confederate monument from outside a county courthouse acted in a constitutional manner and kept in place the statue at its longtime location in accordance with state law.
The three-judge panel unanimously upheld a trial court judge’s decision to side with Alamance County and its commissioners over the 30 foot (9.1 meter)-tall statue, which features a Confederate infantryman perched at the top. The state NAACP, the Alamance NAACP chapter, and other groups and individuals had sued the county and its leaders in 2021 after the commissioners rejected calls to take the statue down.
Confederate monuments in North Carolina, as elsewhere nationwide, were a frequent focal point for racial inequality protests in the late 2010s, and particularly in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. North Carolina legislators enacted a law in 2015 that limits when an “object of remembrance” such as a military monument can be relocated.
Imagine if Germany allowed Hitler monuments… or worse, as in Atlanta, carved portraits of the Nazi leadership into the side of a mountain…
From my understanding this is a monument to represent the common soldier who died not any particular person of note. IMHO we should keep the statues of the common men tricked into suck wars even if they were on the wrong and losing side. In my opinion, it is important to remember the human cost. Not glorify any leaders.
I guess now we have to remove it the hard way
The hard way involves enveloping the county in the progressive corridor down 85 and pushing out the commissioners who allow it to stay up. I’d much rather see it knocked down and flattened with rented construction equipment.
Can’t hurt to keep it defaced consistently while waiting on public sentiment to shift ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
