Kentucky’s University of Louisville will be taking down and dismantling and then storing a Confederate monument that has stood on the U of L campus for 121 years.
The stone monument honoring Kentuckians who died for the Confederacy in the Civil War will be moved to another location, University President James Ramsey and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said during a surprise announcement Friday. The monument is capped with a statue of a Confederate soldier.
"It's time for us to move this monument to a more appropriate place," Ramsey said while standing in front of the stone memorial, which sits next to the university's gleaming Speed Art museum that just completed a $60 million renovation.
That “appropriate place” has not been decided upon—I have some ideas of my own—but I’m sure someone will tell us about it when they put it back together.
The tall, obelisk-style monument will be disassembled and cleaned while it is in storage awaiting a new location, which has not been determined. It was given to the city by the Kentucky Woman's Monument Association.
Ricky Jones, a professor of Pan-African studies at the university, said he has been pushing for removal of the statue since he arrived at the university in the late 1990s.
Not everyone is happy about this turn of events—for example, racists are bummed out.
"It is a political version of book burning," Everett Corley, a real estate agent, said in an interview Sunday evening. "And the fact is, I'm not in favor of book burning."
Corley said he will be filing a temporary restraining order in Jefferson Circuit Court on Monday against Fischer that will demand he cease and desist from any efforts to take down the memorial.
My guess is that Republican candidate for Congress, Everett Corley would burn some books if he didn’t like what they said. I wonder about those history books that say that the Civil War was won by the North and was about slavery? i’m guessing those are books Mr. Corley doesn’t find worth the paper they’re written on. Corley got some good news today.
Judge Judith McDonald-Burkman issued the order Monday morning against Mayor Greg Fischer and Metro Government, barring them from removing, moving, disassembling or otherwise tampering with the 70-foot-tall Confederate monument near the University of Louisville. A hearing is set for Thursday at 10:30 a.m. to consider the plaintiff's motion for a full temporary injunction.
"The Court finds that the plaintiffs will suffer immediate and irreparable harm if, during the pendency of this litigation, Defendants are allowed to continue with their stated plan to dismantle and remove the Confederate Monument from its present location," the judge wrote.
This isn’t Corley’s first controversy, about a month ago, the Trump supporting Republican said he was assaulted by fellow GOP bric-a-brac.
In the criminal complaint, a copy of which Corley provided to The Courier-Journal, Corley claims that he was walking down a hallway at Jefferson County Republican Party headquarters when Byron Fisher “violently grabbed my right arm and pushed me with the other hand, suddenly and without provocation.”
Corley, 48, said in the complaint that the incident made him “extremely anxious and (his) blood pressure increased to dangerous levels.”
This guy is angry about lots of stuff and his blood pressure is clearly increasing to dangerous levels. Kids, being a racist asshole is bad for your health.