Confederate Statues Are Coming Down At The University Of Texas

[TexasTowelie]

President Greg Fenves ordered the immediate removal of statues of Robert E. Lee and three other Confederate figures, Albert Sidney Johnston, John Reagan and James Stephen Hogg, from a main area of campus.

Lee and Johnston were Confederate generals, Reagan was a Confederate postmaster and Hogg was the first native-born governor of Texas and the son of a Confederate general.

Link to tweet

The Texas Tribune reports:

"Hogg was alive during the Civil War, but was too young to serve. UT-Austin spokesman J.B. Bird said the university had no objection to Hogg's statue on campus, but "the entire statuary is one exhibit, so it all goes together."

University President Fenves announced the statues' fate Sunday night, and the removals should be complete by mid-morning Monday. A university spokesman says the area has been blocked off.

The debate over public memorials for Confederate figures catapulted into national conversation after one person was killed in a clash between white supremacists and counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va.

Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/21/544942064/confederate-statues-are-coming-down-at-the-university-of-texas




Statues of John Reagan and James Stephen Hogg are put on a flatbed truck as they are removed from @UTAustin campus. http://kut.org/post/ut-austin-removing-three-remaining-confederate-monuments-campus …

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Love it!! It's a good start... long way to go. But, when we're done...

we need to look at the underlying racism, and it's effects, that allowed these statutes to remain in place for so long and talk about reparations.

[Paladin]

2. Outstanding. So proud of my school for doing this. (nt)