Confederate monument taken down by workers in front of a cheering crowd in Decatur, Georgia, days after a judge ruled it a “public nuisance.”
ABC News’ Will Carr travels through the South, where division and hurt linger over Confederate statues and symbols.They're the faces in communities that can hide in broad daylight. Many residents admit that before George Floyd's death, they never even noticed the chiseled and controversial figures.-- can spark a range of emotions from honor to hate.
The 1911 Confederate monument in Gulfport, Miss., includes the phrase, "Lest we forget," June 16, 2020. "I still think that this should be our state flag. I don't think it should be offensive," Roberts said. Supporters like Roberts believe the legacy of the Confederacy is being turned into one of hate and racism, even though the facts are clear that the Confederacy fought to maintain the institution of slavery and its economics, resulting in a war that split up families and left at least 618,000 dead.
A Confederate monument unveiled in 1911 now stands in front of the parking garage at the Harrison County Courthouse in Gulfport, Miss., June 16, 2020."[The monument] shouldn't really be outside. It should be somewhere to memorialize at least soldiers but not what they stood for," Jared added. In Mobile, Alabama, however, city leaders ignored their state law when they decided to take down a statue of a Confederate naval officer, sparking anger from members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a nonprofit made up of descendants of Confederate soldiers.
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