Protesters plan march on memorial in Decatur GA

[struggle4progress]

Joshua Sharpe
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
4:07 p.m Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017

A group called “Hate Free Decatur” is organizing a Sunday night march on the Confederate monument downtown in the DeKalb County seat.

The event is at 6 p.m., starting at 105 Electric Ave., ending at the historic courthouse on the square, where the monument rose in 1908. Organizers deride the monument, which is owned by DeKalb County, as an outdated Jim Crow-era symbol of white supremacy.

Though DeKalb owns the monument, state law protects Confederate monuments across the state ...

http://www.ajc.com/news/local/protesters-plan-march-confederate-memorial-decatur/8XQ9jKk3klZwkqkxsNQEtO/

[gratuitous]

1. Local control! Local control!

Oh, a county that installed a monument 100 years ago wants to uninstall it? Well, I guess local control isn't the answer for everything, just some things. If the locals want the right things, that is.

[NotASurfer]

2. So GA dems have an easy to grasp legislative cornerstone

Change the damn law.

If it doesn't pass, elect people who will change the damn law. Then change the damn law.

[lastlib]

3. So maybe if we stop calling it a "Confederate monument"?

Call it, say, a stone landscaping feature that is outdated and ugly, and needs to be replaced with more modern features, say, a statue of Barack Obama? Or Martin Luther King? Would that pass muster under the damn law?

Play the Repuglikan game--call it something you want it to be, and it magically becomes that.....