Last Updated on August 17, 2024
Woke historical revisionists in Decatur, Georgia, have replaced a 110-year-old Confederate monument in Georgia with the late “civil rights” leader and former Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., on Friday.
The monument stood in Decatur, Ga, before being torn down for the sake of so-called racial justice during the 2020 George Floyd riots, which killed at least 25 people and totaled damages of a surplus of $2 billion.
The monument was initially erected in 1908 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization of descendants of Confederate soldiers who have spent 128 years preserving its history.
To some, these memorial statues and markers are viewed as divisive and thus unworthy of being allowed to remain in public places. To others, they simply represent a memorial to our forefathers who fought bravely during four years of war. These memorial statues and markers have been a part of the Southern landscape for decades.
The group’s president general, Jinny Widowski, added in the statement that they denounce hate groups and that “diversity is what makes our nation stronger.”
The United Daughters of the Confederacy totally denounces any individual or group that promotes racial divisiveness or white supremacy. And we call on these people to cease using Confederate symbols for their abhorrent and reprehensible purposes.
This did not appease race-based NGOs, including Hate Free Decatur and the NAACP’s Beacon Hill Black Alliance, who targeted the monument in 2017. In light of the death of George Flyod and surrounding unrest, the city requested a Georgia judge to eliminate the historical relic after numerous vandalism attempts. It was regarded as a safety concern, reported CNN.
According to the AP, the new statue on the site is 12 feet tall and designed by Jamaican sculptor Basil Watson, who has committed all of his work to black figures. He said this new revisionism is “exciting for the city because of what he represents and what it’s replacing.”
Lewis has been considered vital to the Civil Rights Movement, encouraging civilians to get in “good trouble.” His rhetoric carried over to recent years, such as during the 2020 BLM riots, pushing the defund the police movement and so-called “racial equity.”
“The way this young man died, watching the video, it made me so sad. It was so painful. It made me cry. I kept saying to myself, how many more? How many more young black men will be murdered? The madness must stop.” — @RepJohnLewis on the death of George Floyd pic.twitter.com/tJ5mVfcmoZ
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) June 4, 2020
The Georgia congressman died in 2020 after a battle with pancreatic cancer and has been honored by being laid in state in Washington, DC.
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Lewis’s statue is one of many replacements of America’s past. It will reportedly be unveiled on Aug. 24.
