WATCH: Protestors topple statue honoring confederate soldiers in Durham NC

[applegrove]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/watch-protestors-topple-statue-honoring-confederate-soldiers-in-durham-nc/

(multiple videos at the website)

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rotestors in Durham, N.C. toppled a statue honoring fallen confederate soldiers on Monday, following a weekend of violent protests in Charlottesville, VA.

ABC’s John Kaplan reports the memorial has stood outside the courthouse in downtown Durham since 1924.

“It needs to be removed,” Loan Tran, an organizer, told WNCN. “These Confederate statues in Durham, in North Carolina, all across the country.”

“When I see a confederate statue in downtown Durham, or really anywhere, it fills me with a lot of rage and frustration,” they said.


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[Reiyuki]

1. Always good to see wholesome non-violent protest

Strategic, symbolic, non-violent protests do wonders to help the brand.

[customerserviceguy]

2. Yep

And instead of picking a statue of a slave-holding Confederate general or politician, they picked something that was meant to honor people who were at the bottom of the heap and got the the most shit kicked out of them in the Civil War.

Bad choice here, in my view.