Posted on Jan 30, 2022
Court Hearing Set for Thursday on Tuskegee Confederate Monument - Alabama News
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A judge is scheduled to consider arguments Thursday in a legal fight over a Confederate monument in Tuskegee.
Circuit Judge Steven Perryman has set a hearing in a lawsuit filed on behalf of Macon County and some residents.
They’re suing the local and state chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The group erected monuments across the South in the early 1900s.
As Alabama News Network has reported, the land in downtown Tuskegee where the monument stands was given to the United Daughters of the Confederacy by the Macon County Commission in 1906 to be used as a park for white people and to allow the monument to be erected.
But county leaders say in the deed, it says that when the park was no longer used for its intended purpose, the land would return to the county’s control. That’s what they believe is the case.
Circuit Judge Steven Perryman has set a hearing in a lawsuit filed on behalf of Macon County and some residents.
They’re suing the local and state chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The group erected monuments across the South in the early 1900s.
As Alabama News Network has reported, the land in downtown Tuskegee where the monument stands was given to the United Daughters of the Confederacy by the Macon County Commission in 1906 to be used as a park for white people and to allow the monument to be erected.
But county leaders say in the deed, it says that when the park was no longer used for its intended purpose, the land would return to the county’s control. That’s what they believe is the case.
Court Hearing Set for Thursday on Tuskegee Confederate Monument - Alabama News
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Interesting, we have a similar situation here in Tampa at the intersection of I-4 and I-75. The claimed largest Confederate flag in the world flies there on land owned by The Sons of Confederate Veterans. Courts have ruled that since its on private property its perfectly legal. If the court in Tuskegee finds that the land is still being used as a park for white people there probably isn't much chance of the monument going away.
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To defend against all enemies foreign or domestic. Enemies do not have the right to have monuments period. That’s like putting an IRAQ or Afghan monument in the middle of DC.
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