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(160,177 posts) Tue Sep 2, 2025, 05:34 AM Sep 2

Confederate statue that residents protested every weekend for 3 years is removed in North Carolina

Source: The Independent

Monday 01 September 2025 22:36 BST

A historic and picturesque town in North Carolina has removed a Confederate statue from its downtown after long-running weekly protests against it. The bronze figure of a soldier was carefully removed from its stone base on the waterfront of Edenton just after midnight on Sunday morning and placed into storage at the county jail. It is set to be relocated to outside the Chown County Courthouse.

The removal of the statue is notable as it comes at a time when President Donald Trump has launched a crusade against depictions of U.S. history that do not portray the country in a flattering light.

His administration has begun changing the names of military bases back to their original titles, commemorating Confederate soldiers after they were renamed during the Biden administration. Some statues that were removed will be replaced, and Trump has singled out the Smithsonian and other museums for review.

Rod Phillips, who helped stage protests against the monument each Saturday in the town with a 60 percent Black population, told The Washington Post: “It’s a great sense of relief.”

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/confederate-statue-removed-north-carolina-b2818104.html

A rare "win".

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Confederate statue that residents protested every weekend for 3 years is removed in North Carolina (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 2 OP

I'm not sure that moving it to the courthouse is a huge improvement. sl8 Sep 2 #1

It was a "compromise solution" BumRushDaShow Sep 2 #3

Yes, that's what the mayor said. The folks suing the town say it was done improperly. nt sl8 Sep 2 #4

ALL of those piece of shit monuments BumRushDaShow Sep 2 #6

Absolutely. nt sl8 Sep 2 #7

I have relatives there. OldBaldy1701E Sep 2 #2

Yeah lonely bird Sep 2 #5

sl8

(16,833 posts)

1. I'm not sure that moving it to the courthouse is a huge improvement.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 2, 2025, 08:12 AM

Sep 2

I believe that the lawsuit about the statue's erection at the courthouse is still pending, but haven't seen anything about it very recently.

https://southerncoalition.org/cases/rev-shannon-v-town-of-edenton/

BumRushDaShow

(160,177 posts)

3. It was a "compromise solution"

Reply to sl8 (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 2, 2025, 08:35 AM

Sep 2

From a WaPo article -

N.C. town removes Confederate statue at center of long-running protest

September 1, 2025 at 12:41 p.m. EDT

By Gregory S. Schneider

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Edenton Mayor W. Hackney High Jr. defended the town’s actions in a written statement, calling the relocation a compromise that gives each side a measure of victory.

“To those who advocated for the monument’s relocation or removal: your efforts brought about meaningful change. The monument is no longer in its original, most prominent location at the foot of Broad Street,” High wrote. “To those who opposed its removal: your voices helped ensure the monument is preserved and relocated respectfully, not destroyed or discarded.”

Officials in Edenton hatched the plan to relocate the statue after a racial reconciliation commission several years ago recommended removing the Confederate symbol from its spot downtown. The monument was completed in 1909 at a different site — a historic, Colonial-era courthouse, no longer in use — and moved to the more central location on the waterfront in 1961 as civil rights protests were erupting. Local resident and prominent organizer Golden Frinks was a top lieutenant to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who visited Edenton often during that era.

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sl8

(16,833 posts)

4. Yes, that's what the mayor said. The folks suing the town say it was done improperly. nt

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 2, 2025, 08:46 AM

Sep 2

BumRushDaShow

(160,177 posts)

6. ALL of those piece of shit monuments

Reply to sl8 (Reply #4)

Tue Sep 2, 2025, 10:00 AM

Sep 2

belong at the bottom of the sea for the sea life to bury or should be melted down and made into something non-treasonous.

sl8

(16,833 posts)

7. Absolutely. nt

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #6)

Tue Sep 2, 2025, 10:12 AM

Sep 2

OldBaldy1701E

(9,045 posts)

2. I have relatives there.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 2, 2025, 08:29 AM

Sep 2

They were against those who wanted to remove that statue.

Figures. They were using the usual tropes as well.

I swear, if I hear that crap about 'Heritage, Not Hate!' one more time...

lonely bird

(2,538 posts)

5. Yeah

Reply to OldBaldy1701E (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 2, 2025, 09:51 AM

Sep 2

Since the heritage IS hate I think they protest too much. Their racism is showing.

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