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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTampa Sports Teams Donate Money to Remove Confederate Monument
Tampa Sports Teams Donate Money to Remove Confederate MonumentBy BEN SHPIGELAUG. 17, 2017
The three major professional sports teams from the Tampa, Fla., area did not merely denounce a Confederate monument downtown they have helped subsidized its removal.
In a joint statement, the Tampa Bay Rays, Lightning and Buccaneers said Thursday that they had donated an unspecified sum to take down a memorial in front of the old Hillsborough County courthouse, which depicts two Confederate soldiers on either side of an obelisk. The monument does not reflect the values of our community, the teams said.
The teams donation was part of a surge that came one day after county commissioners voted to give fund-raisers 30 days to raise $140,000 or about half of the amount necessary to relocate the memorial to a cemetery in suburban Brandon. The commissioners voted about a month ago to move the memorial.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/sports/tampa-confederate-monument-buccaneers-rays-lightning.html
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Tampa Sports Teams Donate Money to Remove Confederate Monument (Original Post)
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struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)1. KnR
TheOther95Percent
(1,035 posts)2. The Inscription
Long Description:
Inscription on front:
TO THE HONOR AND COURAGE OF THE PATRIOTS OF THE CONFEDERATE STATESOF AMERICA, THIS MONUMENT IS DEDICATED BY TAMPA CHAPTER, NO.113.U.D.C.,
AND THE CITIZENS OF TAMPA. JANUARY 1911. MEMORIA IN AETERNA.
On right side
LEST WE FORGET
On left side
UNITED IN THE PAST; ONE IN THE FUTURE
On back
NOT THEIRS THE RUSH OF MADDENED WRATH. THAT RECKLESS SUNDERED TIES OF BLOOD, BUT HONORS' BEACON SHOWED THE PATH WHERE DAUNTLESS DUTY STOOD. THROUGH FAMINE YEARS THE FOLLOWED FAR WHERE HER UNSWERVING BANNERS LED. BEYOND HER GLORY'S FLAME-TIPPED STAR-BEHIND HER-HONORS DEAD. THE YEARS THEIR SLOW PROCESSION KEEP, THE BANNER BARRED WITH RED IS FURLED BUT NOW ITS GRAY CLAD SOLDIERS SLEEP/THE HEROES OF A WORLD.
SR. E. C.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)3. K&R