Social justice warriors in Memphis, Tennessee are staging a rally to pressure city officials into removing Confederate statues in the community, the latest stunt aimed at snubbing out the region’s forefathers.
Organizers for the group that calls itself “Take Em Down 901” are advertising the protest at Bruce Elementary School on Bellevue Boulevard for 6 p.m. Tuesday “to discuss action steps to remove Confederate statues in Memphis,” according to the group’s Facebook page.
The group is led by Tami Sawyer, “a political leader, speaker, writer & activist for Social Justice and Educational Equity.”
Sawyer told WMC last week that she’s leading a boycott of the city’s famed 4th Bluff Park until the city removes statue of Jefferson Davis, and her group is urging the public to avoid scheduled summer events like “Downtown Yoga in the Park” and an art show until they get their way.
“Having the statutes (sic) is another thing that says black people don’t matter in Memphis,” she said.
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I can't stand when I get this crap and it happens way to often. Joe can you please do something about this. After I have written a long thought out response this happens. Dang It!
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12:42, You can only make a comment so long. You may want to divide lengthy comments into two parts OR send your comment directly to me and I can do it for you.
Dig some holes for them.?
Hey Joe, my comment didn't meet or was anyway near the 4,000 digits. When I post the comments that are too long I get a notice saying it was too long, not the above notice. I get the above notice way to often. Don't no if you are posting or editing at the same time or not? It's just frustrating because I pretty much forgot all the good points to my original post.
Copy and paste each comment before you publish it. If you get the error, send it to me and I'll make sure it gets through. You are the very first complaint of such in my 13 years of doing this.
We have become no better than the ISIS we fight. Destroying the past to to change it to suit only one sects belief.
Also it appears as though the third reich lives. They destroyed history to suit Hitler.
What have we become people...... Soon it will be too late to go back.
The longest surviving democracy is on its way out.
They are behaving just like ISIS and the Taliban. Only dictators and terrorists try to erase a country's history by tearing down it's monuments.
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