Relocation of Confederate statues on UTA campus halted (TX)

[struggle4progress]

Source: KYTX (CBS)

Posted: Aug 14, 2015 7:24 PM EDT
Updated: Aug 14, 2015 7:26 PM EDT

The following is a statement from university spokesman Gary Susswein ...

The University of Texas at Austin will not be relocating the statues of Jefferson Davis and Woodrow Wilson on Saturday, August 15, as initially planned.

In response to a temporary restraining order that was requested by the Sons of Confederate Veterans filed in state district court Friday afternoon, the university has agreed to wait to move the statues until a court has a chance to review this matter next week.

Universities have the discretion under state law to relocate statues on their campuses. President Fenves' decision to move the Jefferson Davis statue to UT's Briscoe Center for American History is both the right course forward and consistent with the law. We are confident we will move ahead with these plans

Read more: http://www.cbs19.tv/story/29792004/relocation-of-confederate-statues-on-uta-campus-halted

[1939]

1. No surprise on Jeff Davis, but

When I was in school, every history prof in America used to masturbate to the thought of the "great statesman" Wilson

[Gman]

2. Can't believe they used "UTA"

That's Univ of Texas at Arlington. Austin has THE Unuversity of Texas. If that's a local station, there are WAY TOO MANY new people in Austin. This is a good example why they need to leave.

[Hangingon]

4. KYTX is a Tyler station.

You are so right about Austin.

[tammywammy]

6. Ha, that was my first thought....

I went to UTA for graduate school and thought "huh, I hadn't heard anything about any confederate status".

[Fred Sanders]

3. Sons of the Dixie Swastika is a front group for racists that lost the Texas confederate license plate

case in SCOTUS, another reason all the racists have gone crazy.....essentially a racist legal department.

Why did the university cave before the legal application was even heard next week?

From th link:

"Universities have the discretion under state law to relocate statues on their campuses. President Fenves' decision to move the Jefferson Davis statue to UT's Briscoe Center for American History is both the right course forward and consistent with the law. We are confident we will move ahead with these plans."

[yellowcanine]

5. How do the SOBs (Sons of the Battleflag) have standing?

Even if they paid for the statue, in most cases a public university has sole authority on how things are displayed - at best, they get the statue back to do what they want with it, and that would only be true if they a restriction in the donation agreement.

[freshwest]

7. Texas had an unhealthy fascination with the CSA when I was growing up:

Jefferson Davis High School in Houston.



'Spirit of the Confederacy' in Sam Houston Park in downtown Houston.

Check the chapter list of the:

Texas Division

United Daughters of the Confederacy®

http://www.txudc.org/chapters.html

There was a state holiday for the birthday of that Jefferrson-fucking-Davis! In 1973 it was mixed with Robert E. Lee's to create 'Confederate Heroes Day.'

The Confederate response to the Emancipation Proclaimation. Jefferson Davis' own words:

"...Now, therefore, as a compensatory measure, I do hereby issue the following Address to the People of the Non-Slaveholding States:

On and after February 22, 1863, all free negroes within the limits of the Southern Confederacy shall be placed on the slave status, and be deemed to be chattels, they and their issue forever.

All negroes who shall be taken in any of the States in which slavery does not now exist, in the progress of our arms, shall be adjudged, immediately after such capture, to occupy the slave status, and in all States which shall be vanquished by our arms, all free negroes shall, ipsofacto, be reduced to the condition of helotism, so that the respective normal conditions of the white and black races may be ultimately placed on a permanent basis, so as to prevent the public peace from being thereafter endangered..."

http://davisspeech.blogspot.com/