Portsmouth residents discuss Confederate monument
By Erin Kelly
Published: July 15, 2015, 12:12 am
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Residents from Portsmouth filled a city council meeting Tuesday night to discuss the Confederate monument at the corner of High and Court streets ... “I can’t remember a Portsmouth without that monument. I think it needs to stay exactly where it is,” Councilman Bill Moody said. “It was these monuments that were built in that time period, out of the spirit of vindictiveness and the spirit of white supremacy,” responded Councilman Whitaker. “You’re looking at a descendant of lynching. You’re looking at a descendant of those that were murdered and killed and prosecuted,” said another speaker ...
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