A new round of debate over monuments honoring Confederate soldiers has been ignited by a controversial court order in Kentucky.
Ruling against Louisville Mayor Greg Fisher and the city government, Jefferson County Circuit judge Judith McDonald-Burke issued an injunction blocking any attempts to remove a Confederate memorial not too far from the University of Louisville.
The restraining order was filed by a number of persons and organizations, not least of which were Republican congressional candidate Everett Corley, political activist Ed Springston, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and Kentucky Division.
Echoing the concerns of many Southerners, the plaintiffs argue that removing the memorial and others like it will do nothing to make up for the past wrongs they supposedly represent and disrespect the men they are meant to honor.
But Mayor Fisher and his allies are not willing to let this go on. Instead, they intend to appeal the matter further, in the hope that a more sympathetic judge will not let them go ahead with their plan to move the memorial elsewhere.
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Thank you, it is history. All these$#%&!@*heads asking to have it removed would be up in arms if we ask something they treasure as history items!
Good some with common sense
Yes thank you
The WHAS11 poll surveyed followers on Facebook – 92% were opposed to the statue’s removal. Further, this was an arbitrary move by a #Liberal mayor to appease a minuscule group. No one is “glorifying” but battles were fought in Kentucky, families were divided on this issue and like it or not it IS part of Kentucky’s history (which cannot and should not be erased nor changed). Erasing, hiding and revising history only works in dictatorial societies.
Way to go judge…..and I am a Kentuckian. Bet Hopkinsville would accept it !!!!
Thanks for not destroying history !!
Just wait till Obama gone
ISIS does not run this country….destroying our country’s history is stupid…good and bad, it is still our history!
we should not ever be eliminating our history
About time. History IS, you can’t change it, and you better learn from it!