This is insane. Now everything associated with the confederacy must go?
TEXAS TRIBUNE – A push to remove a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from the campus of the University of Texas at Austin has gained new momentum after last week’s deadly shooting in a black church in South Carolina.
School president Greg Fenves will meet with student leaders to discuss the issue Monday afternoon, a university spokesman said. And U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, joined a group of more than 1,000 students, alumni and UT supporters to sign a petition asking Fenves to remove the tribute on the school’s south mall.
Fenves, meanwhile, hasn’t committed to anything. He said before taking office that he plans to review the issue, but hasn’t made up his mind. That hasn’t changed this week, said university spokesman Gary Susswein.
“President Fenves is taking the issue very seriously,” he said.
Monday’s conversation at UT comes as some South Carolina officials are pressuring state lawmakers to remove a Confederate battle flag from that state’s Capitol grounds.
Democrats just want to use this to bolster their arguments about America being a racist nation, to divide this country and to attack Republican presidential candidates as racists. That’s all this is and it’s sickening.
They will use this just as they used the ‘war on women’ in 2012. No doubt about it.