Dallas leaders now hoping to sell Confederate monuments (TX)

[struggle4progress]

By: FOX4News.com Staff
POSTED: APR 24 2018 11:47AM CDT
VIDEO POSTED: APR 24 2018 08:56AM CDT

DALLAS - Another Confederate monument that has been in Dallas for 122 years may soon be gone.

The Dallas City Council has a resolution on Wednesday’s agenda to tear down the monument in Pioneer Park ...

Councilman Philip Kingston ... believes ultimately both statues will be sold at auction and the money will be used to fund a memorial for a man named Allen Brooks, a black man who was lynched in front of the Old Red Courthouse in 1910 ...

“I encourage people to go read the inscriptions that are on it because I don’t think anyone would love it once they get to know it a little better. It’s pretty horrifying in terms of what’s written on the actual thing. It’s not a really good… it’s certainly not a good symbol of our city. We’re not putting it on any of the convention and visitor’s bureau stuff. We’re clearly not proud of it,” Kingston said ...

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[Grassy Knoll]

1. Aint That America...

[struggle4progress]

2. It's certainly the view Dallas has for America

[misanthrope]

3. Though conservative, Texas has such an idiosyncratic culture

it's truly unique in the nation and the Confederacy is such a minor part of it, more so than any other state that joined that short rebellion. Much of the Deep South still has a lot of its identification rooted in the Lost Cause and antebellum archetypes, plantations and hoop skirts and the like.

Texas is far bigger and more grandly mythological than just the Civil War. Their identity is more Alamo, less Appomattox. It's cattle drives and wildcat oil rigs, Tex-Mex and sauceless barbecue. It's German, Czech and Latin influences. It's both the People's Republic of Austin and the Big D. Texas is a Lone Star for a reason.

[struggle4progress]

4. Dallas got a soft machine

[onetexan]

5. Well said

We rather love Tx, & doing our best to turn it blue! ☺
Sauceless bbq huh? I gotta try some.

[misanthrope]

7. I have heard from various sources over the years

that "real Texas barbecue" doesn't have sauce and it is beef only. I think you might call those folks "purists."

[Hekate]

6. You're waxing downright poetic, misanthrope!

Thanks for that mini-portrait of Texas.

[SoCalDem]

8. They might look lovely at

Mar-a Lago