AuH20
07-13-2015, 10:16 AM
They live to be offended.
However, even the mayor thinks they are nuts.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Group-calls-for-removal-of-Confederate-monument-in-Seattle-314468901.html
Only a short walk from one of the cemetery's most visited grave sites - that of Bruce Lee - a 14-foot granite monument memorializes Washington state's Confederate veterans and their families.
"Just because it's a military memorial doesn't justify it," Charlette LaFevere says. "It's offensive."
LeFevere is part of a small group calling on Seattle city leaders to have the 89-year-old United Confederate Veterans Memorial taken down.
"To me this is the most racist monument in the Northwest," says LaFevere.
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray doesn't like the monument, but says any sort of removal is out of his hands.
"Private property is private property," Murray tells KOMO News. "I support the First Amendment. I don't want it there, I don't like it, but I also don't believe it's the roll of government to tell people what to do with their private property."
Created and funded by the Washington state chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1926, the monument includes the "Stars and Bars" battle flag.
The memorial has been vandalized repeatedly over the years, most recently defaced by graffiti following the racially-motivated Charleston Church shootings.
"I don't want any person - person of color, anybody, to walk by this monument and feel intimidated or oppressed," LaFevere says. "And its very existence is expressing that."
However, even the mayor thinks they are nuts.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Group-calls-for-removal-of-Confederate-monument-in-Seattle-314468901.html
Only a short walk from one of the cemetery's most visited grave sites - that of Bruce Lee - a 14-foot granite monument memorializes Washington state's Confederate veterans and their families.
"Just because it's a military memorial doesn't justify it," Charlette LaFevere says. "It's offensive."
LeFevere is part of a small group calling on Seattle city leaders to have the 89-year-old United Confederate Veterans Memorial taken down.
"To me this is the most racist monument in the Northwest," says LaFevere.
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray doesn't like the monument, but says any sort of removal is out of his hands.
"Private property is private property," Murray tells KOMO News. "I support the First Amendment. I don't want it there, I don't like it, but I also don't believe it's the roll of government to tell people what to do with their private property."
Created and funded by the Washington state chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1926, the monument includes the "Stars and Bars" battle flag.
The memorial has been vandalized repeatedly over the years, most recently defaced by graffiti following the racially-motivated Charleston Church shootings.
"I don't want any person - person of color, anybody, to walk by this monument and feel intimidated or oppressed," LaFevere says. "And its very existence is expressing that."