DAVIS STATUE REMOVAL DELAYED

  
The Jefferson Davis statue on the Austin campus has been the target of vandalism.
The Jefferson Davis statue on the Austin campus has been the target of vandalism.

The University of Texas has canceled weekend plans to relocate a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis off the main campus after opponents asked a judge to block the move.

University spokesman Gary Susswein said Friday the school remains confident it will ultimately carry out a decision made this week to put the century-old statue in a museum. It had been targeted by vandals and come under increasing criticism as a symbol of racism.

But the university agreed to postpone the move after the Sons of Confederate Veterans filed for a temporary restraining order. It's the same group that that lost at the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year over Texas rejecting a specialized license plate featuring the Confederate flag.

The move had been scheduled to take place today.

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  1. The vandal is clearly mistaken in the message that NEEDS to be conveyed to EVERY citizen of this country- ALL LIVES MATTER

  2. Sometimes the biggest racist are the ones screaming racism. If you have a chip on your shoulder then you are always looking for someone to blame your problems on. Guess what, if you are accidentally cheated at the store, it has nothing to do with race. Unless you are a racist looking for problems to validate your existence.
    Most people have tunnel vision : trying to get through the day, get the bills paid and get home to the family. Racist wake up knowing someone is going to offend them today because of race. People peeve me off everyday, eguardless of race, creed or religion.
    A man that does not learn his history is condemned to repeat it. Look to the past for inspiration to climb, not to sit and pout. Life is hard. We all encounter problems each day. Pull up your big boy/girl panties and dsl with it. Kiss your family, say your prayers and bless our ancestors for all the hardship they overcame so that we can succeed. Where there is life, there is hope. If you are a racist then no one wants to be around you due to your negative attitude, not race.
    Maybe we do not need to remove things, but remove the racist to be put in “time out” until they learn to play nice with others.
    There are those individuals out there that gain from problems. These individuals are the racist and try to keep others down through ignorance and mind control games for their own financial gains. These individuals are the cancer of our society.

  3. Then take down the martin Luther king statues, its not a race thing its history and heritage and no one can change the past.
    So then all images of our past should go!!!?????

  4. I’m glad that they are removing it. Unless you have been discriminated against or racially targeted you will NEVER understand. It’s like walking the streets everyday and seeing a person that murdered your parents, but was found innocent. Though they went through due process you will still fill some type of way. Even if laws have been changed to ensure that crime would never happen again, it doesn’t change your feelings. The war of racism hasn’t been won. Where have you been? This is why issues still arise because of the denial that it exist TODAY. Did you know Mississippi just outlawed slavery in 1995? All states had abolished it but it was still law to own slaves in this particular state.

    1. Really??
      I am a White American. My Great Grandparents traveled from Germany to find a better life here. In doing so, they were discriminated against because of their heritage; my grandfather was even dragged out of his home, stripped naked and was tarred and feathered in down town Burton, then left to walk his way back home-close to 20 miles. Was an injustice done? YES, but do I think that I am owed something for what happened to him? NO! Do we need to rid the county of the family that did this to him? (we know who they were and they still live here) NO. We have gone on and tried to better our lives and our place in this country. We don’t whine and cry at each little thing. That being said, the statue is a part of History, good or bad, and should remain up. It a country hides all their History because it offends someone then how can that History change? It will only continue. The war has not been won because every time something happens, race is brought up. Stop it!! I am tired of having the race card thrown in my face or used all the time. We are all dealt the same hand, it’s what you do with that hand that dictates how your life will be.

    2. Going by your logic then the statues to Martin Luther King Jr. or the emancipation flag should be barred from public display because of their slavery past (emancipation flag) or the fact that going by the MLK statues invokes the hatred we’re seeing from groups such as “Black Lives Matter.”

      I think what should’ve been done is had a poll where students were asked if they even see said statue, asked who it was, and the like. I can bet that most of them wouldn’t recognize the statue, know who he was and if anything just walk by the ‘old guy’ every day to class. It isn’t most of America who are making statues an issue.

      I do get it because I’ve been there. Like it or not, discrimination is race, color and gender blind, but removing a statue won’t stop that. If anything, all you do is get those who believe in true equality riled up and cause MORE problems.

  5. Today we are all Americans. We who are True Americans understand American History. True Americans look at every other American and respects them for their contributions to our Country. True Americans do not Self Segregate themselves since they look at and recognize the strength of each individual’s contributions to our Country as a Whole; without hypocrisy, greed, and expectations of notority. Why should any healthy and able person, look at their own demographic being and expect special treatment or tax dollar favoritism? I don’t get it. And for our government to entertain this unethical respect to our American History; again, I dont get it. It is of the upmost shame of our president, that he has not yet ever stood up, and responded that he is of multicultural heritage and a good representation of American Heritage. It is time for American Leadership to make a stand. If Leadership continues to fail; It is time for Us, the True Americans to say, “Enough is Enough.” As Texans, we must speak up, as True Americans, As Texans. We can not risk having a recking ball to take out the Alamo next. What do you want? Are you a True American?

  6. I’m glad for the injunction myself. A small board giving options but NOT including “keeping it as it is” and demanding the university president remove it and no student say is showing total lack of true equal rights.

    And I honestly wonder how many of these students even KNEW who Jefferson Davis was before the attempt to alter and distort history? Not to mention it was supposedly a flag that caused that shooter to pull the trigger – never mind flags are a. Inanimate and can’t talk, and b. The church itself didn’t blame it for the obe’s actions (in fact forgave home – which was a problem for these protesters)

    All lives matter – that statement is racial blind and should be. But covering or removing a historical landmark that does NOT physically hurt someone without the whole campus say simply because a SMALL group wants it gone is wrong.

    Let ALL students vote on it – be it votes or dollars by withdrawing from the school.

  7. When will this end?
    There are more than enough wars going on.
    Of course Black Lives Matter! There is no denying it! But vandalizing a statue that has been there for years and forcing the campus to hide it away does NOTHING to improve that status! Vandalism is a crime! Having a statue of Davis or any other official on campus is NOT a crime.
    History is done and many changes have been made because of it. Growth has occurred because of that history. Wars to free the blacks were fought and won years ago. Blacks are free! Thank God! But we are teaching our children that the fight is never over. How is that helping the cause?
    There should not be hatred between cultures now because of what happened in the past.
    There should be PEACE.
    Things like this must stop.

    1. I wish some of these folks that are protesting would take time and really find out what the War between the States (Civil War) was really about, they would be surprised!!!!

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