Gainesville City Council Votes to Remove Confederate Statue

[TexasTowelie]

Another racist monument will soon be dismantled. Last week, Gainesville City Council voted unanimously to uproot a Confederate statue from a local park.

Over the past few weeks, PRO Gainesville, a local grassroots organization, has protested for the removal of the town’s two Confederate statues.

Founder Torrey Henderson said she was pleasantly surprised by the council’s unanimous verdict.

“I didn’t expect that, so that felt amazing,” she said. “It made me teary at the end, because I didn’t think that this community would at all get there.”

Gainesville is the latest Texas town to eliminate a Confederate memorial following the recent wave of Black Lives Matter protests; Dallas, Fort Worth and Denton each removed statues in June. Still, Gainesville activists say there’s more work to do: It’s one monument down, one more to go.

Read more: https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/gainesville-confederate-statue-removed-11927900

[Shell_Seas]

1. They only voted to remove one.

There is another one on the County Courthouse lawn, which is in Gainesville, but must be decided on by Cooke County Judge. PRO Gainesville has also been working to change the names of 3 local area schools, which are named after Confederate generals. It's a step in the right direction, but it isn't enough.

They have more protests schedule in coming days.