{"id":9391,"date":"2020-06-17T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/thousands-sign-petition-to-replace-confederate-statues-in-tennessee-with-dolly-parton\/"},"modified":"2020-06-17T00:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T21:59:00","slug":"thousands-sign-petition-to-replace-confederate-statues-in-tennessee-with-dolly-parton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/thousands-sign-petition-to-replace-confederate-statues-in-tennessee-with-dolly-parton\/","title":{"rendered":"#Thousands sign petition to replace Confederate statues in Tennessee with Dolly Parton"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Thousands sign petition to replace Confederate statues in Tennessee with Dolly Parton<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 16, 2020 |<\/span> 5:59pm <\/p>\n

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\n Dolly Parton performs on the Pyramid Stage during Day 3 of the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm on June 29, 2014 in England. <\/span>
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\n They\u2019re begging her to please to take their men.<\/p>\n

A petition to replace every Confederate statue in Tennessee with sculptures of Dolly Parton has racked up over 14,000 signatures on Change.org.<\/p>\n

\u201cTennessee is littered with statues memorializing Confederate officers. History should not be forgotten, but we need not glamorize those who do not deserve our praise,\u201d reads the app<\/a>eal, written by Alex Parsons. \u201cInstead, let us honor a true Tennessee hero, Dolly Parton.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just the 74-year-old country legend\u2019s music career which makes her an eligible replacement, the petition continues: She is a philanthropist, and has dedicated her life to uniting Americans.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s replace the statues of men who sought to tear this country apart with a monument to the woman who has worked her entire life to bring us closer together,\u201d Parsons concludes.<\/p>\n

As of Tuesday, the five-day-old petition was less than 250 signatures away from reaching its 15,000-signature goal.<\/p>\n

In a follow-up to the initial post, Parsons clarifies that while the idea of replacing all Confederate statues with Parton may seem like a joke, it is not intended as one \u2014 although it is less vital that Parton be the replacement than that the Confederate statues be taken down.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe tyranny memorialized in those statues can no longer be allowed to stand, be it removed or replaced by someone worthy of praise, such as Dolly Parton or other deserving groups and individuals,\u201d reads the second post.<\/p>\n

Taylor Swift also recently took to social media<\/a> to demand that Tennessee remove all public statues of \u201cracist historical figures\u201d and \u201cwhite supremacists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swift, 30, penned a lengthy Instagram post addressing her home state\u2019s Capitol Commission and the Tennessee Historical Commission, asking that the organizations \u201cconsider the implications of how hurtful it would be to continue fighting for these monuments. When you fight to honor racists, you show black Tennesseans and all of their allies where you stand, and you continue this cycle of hurt. You can\u2019t change history, but you can change this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dolly Parton Performs at Agua Caliente Casino on January 24, 2014 in Rancho Mirage, California.<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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