Florida: Anti-Whites Tearing Down Confederate Monuments

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Council votes down resolution asking city to make plan, budget $500K to remove Confederate monuments

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/06/14/council-to-decide-fate-of-confederate-monuments-in-vote-tuesday-night

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville City Council on Tuesday voted against a resolution that asked Mayor Lenny Curry and the city to propose a plan that would budget $500,000 to remove remaining Confederate monuments.

The debate comes two years after Curry said they need to come down. A controversial monument still stands uncovered in Springfield Park. It is now the focus of much attention, dividing the council and many people living in the city.

The one monument removed two years ago was of a Confederate soldier that sat atop a pedestal, located across from City Hall. Many thought it meant a change in Jacksonville. The soldier was put away in storage, but the pedestal remains.

Specifically, Councilman Matt Carlucci's resolution called for the removal of the statue at Springfield Park and the remaining pedestal at James Weldon Johnson Park. It requested city officials present a revised plan and timeline.


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https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/protesters-rally-against-standing-confederate-monuments-during-jacksonville-bicentennial-celebration/OVVKIHXLJJDBPPKD7VAWCSXL2I

June 12, 2022 at 1:17 a.m. UTC
By Gretchen Kernbach
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville's 200th birthday is a call to action for some community members.

Take 'em Down Jax and other organizations stood at City Hall and protested the Confederate monuments still standing in the city.

They held signs and chanted, calling for an end to white supremacy and begging city leaders to finally take down the rest of the monuments.

Protesters wielded signs reading "a racist city is not a bold city," among others.

"We want the city to take a stand. We want the city to remove Confederate monuments," Northside Coalition president and founder Ben Frazier said.

Saturday's rally wasn't like any others.

Protesters chose to gather in the light of Jacksonville's bicentennial celebration.

Take 'em Down Jax spokesperson Wells Todd believes holding such an event in the shadow of where a Confederate monument once stood at James Weldon Johnson Park is an endorsement of the Confederacy.

"They're still endorsing what these statues were put up to represent, and that is the philosophy of white supremacy," Todd said.

A column of that statue still stands in the park, along with the "Women of the Southern Confederacy" monument in Springfield Park, where it has stood since 1915.

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