{"id":7400,"date":"2020-06-13T05:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T02:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/kentucky-panel-votes-to-remove-jefferson-davis-statue-from-capitol\/"},"modified":"2020-06-13T05:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T02:41:00","slug":"kentucky-panel-votes-to-remove-jefferson-davis-statue-from-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/kentucky-panel-votes-to-remove-jefferson-davis-statue-from-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"#Kentucky panel votes to remove Jefferson Davis statue from Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Kentucky panel votes to remove Jefferson Davis statue from Capitol<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 12, 2020 |<\/span> 10:41pm <\/p>\n

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\n FRANKFORT, Ky. \u2014 A Kentucky commission voted Friday to take down a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from the state Capitol, adding its voice to a global push to remove symbols of racism and slavery.<\/p>\n

The Historic Properties Advisory Commission met remotely through video teleconferencing at the request of Gov. Andy Beshear and then voted 11-1 to move the 15-foot (4.5-meter) marble statue of Davis to a state historic site in southern Kentucky where the Confederate leader was born. The commission is responsible for statues in the state Capitol.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I see the Jefferson Davis statue in my state Capitol, and knowing our history, I can\u2019t find a lot of reasons to honor this man in that way,\u201d said commissioner member Cathy Thomas, adding that he \u201censlaved human beings\u201d and \u201crebelled against the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Relocating the Davis statue means it will no longer share space in the ornate Capitol Rotunda with a statue of Abraham Lincoln, his Civil War adversary and the president who freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation. Both were Kentucky natives.<\/p>\n

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Workers prepare to remove the Jefferson Davis statue from the Kentucky state Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Friday, June 12, 2020<\/span>Ryan C. Hermens\/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

State workers were seen doing prep work Friday for the statue\u2019s removal from the Rotunda, but it wasn\u2019t immedia<\/a>tely clear when it would go.<\/p>\n

The panel\u2019s vote came two days after another Davis statue was toppled by protesters in Virginia. It comes amid a reignited effort to pull down Confederate monuments around the U.S. after the deaths of black Americans at the hands of police. A black man in Minnesota, George Floyd, died after a Minneapolis police officer pinned him down by putting his knee on Floyd\u2019s neck.<\/p>\n

In Louisville, protesters have demanded justice for Breonna Taylor, who was killed in her home in March. The African American EMT was shot eight times by narcotics detectives who knocked down her door while attempting to enforce a search warrant. No drugs were found.<\/p>\n

Beshear, who said he expected the commission to remove the statue from the Capitol Rotunda, called it an historic day after the vote. The Democratic governor has referred to the statue as a divisive symbol that needed to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was past time for this vote and for this action,\u201d Beshear said in a statement. \u201cBut what it will mean is that \u2026 every child who walks into this Capitol feels welcome, and none of them have to look at a symbol and a statue that stands for the enslavement of their ancestors.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Davis statue has stood in the Kentucky statehouse since 1936. It occupied a corner of the Rotunda near a bronze likeness of Lincoln. Their statues are among several on display in the Rotunda, a popular place for rallies when the legislature is in session.<\/p>\n

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Workers prepare to remove the Jefferson Davis statue from the Kentucky state Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Friday, June 12, 2020<\/span>Ryan C. Hermens\/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Advocates have for years been asking state officials to remove the Davis statue. In 2018, officials removed a plaque declaring the only president of the Confederacy to be a \u201cPatriot-Hero-Statesman.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kentucky was a border state during the Civil War and did not secede from the Union, though some of its citizens owned slaves and Kentuckians fought on both sides of the conflict. The statue was placed in the Capitol during a time of Jim Crow segregation to maintain white rule, Thomas said during the commission\u2019s discussion.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s purpose was clear in the 1930s as it is today,\u201d she said. \u201cThe statue was placed to reaffirm a legacy of white supremacy \u2026 during a time when black Kentuckians lived with threats of violence and lynchings and a system of segregation that denied us basic rights as American citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Voting against the statue\u2019s removal, commission member Brandon Wilson said: \u201cI came on this board with the intent to protect history. I didn\u2019t come on the board to remove history. \u2026 I understand that it\u2019s tough history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson said he sees the push to move the Davis statue as a \u201ccultural movement trying to suppress\u201d history. He accused the governor of \u201cpoliticizing\u201d the issue and \u201cusing our board as a weapon\u201d to achieve an agenda. He said the proximity of the Davis and Lincoln statues offered the chance for a \u201cgreat teaching moment\u201d for visitors to the Capitol.<\/p>\n

The commission called for the statue to be moved to the Jefferson Davis Historic Site, where Davis was born. The site features a 351-foot monument and a museum, according to a state website.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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