Local Group Sues San Antonio for Removing Confederate Statue

[TexasTowelie]

In the 1890s, a group of San Antonio women raised money through quilting bees and bake sales to erect a towering monument to the Confederacy in Travis Park. Beneath it, they buried a time capsule holding a folded Confederate flag and a Confederate soldier's Old Testament bible (along with other similar memorabilia).

More than a hundred years later, the San Antonio City Council voted to remove the monument from city property, placing it in storage until the city could settle on a new home. The August decision to remove a statue memorializing a racially-driven army has been touted as a civil rights victory in council chambers and advocacy groups throughout the city.

But the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (descendants of those quilting women) are calling it thievery.

On Monday, the local United Daughters of the Confederacy chapter filed a federal lawsuit against the city for removing what the group believes to be their property. In the litigation, the local chapter, named the Albert Sidney Johnston chapter, argues that it never gave or donated the monument to the city.

Read more: https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2017/10/27/local-group-sues-san-antonio-for-removing-confederate-statue

[Raster]

1. FUCK the Daughters of the Confederacy, who have been responsible for placing many...

... of the Confederate monuments and memorials littering parks and town squares throughout the South. Their goal of their statutes and memorials that were primarily placed during the Jim Crow and Civil Rights eras was to enshrine *their version* of history, often contrary to the wishes of the municipalities they "graced" with their paeans to an old South and Southern heritage THAT NEVER REALLY EXISTED.

[Cartoonist]

2. Let them have it

Give it back to them. Tell them to come pick it up or you'll start charging them storage.