Dallas wants public input before acting on monument recommendations
Robert Wilonsky, City Columnist
... members of the Quality of Life, Arts & Culture Committee opted to hold their votes until after Wednesday's 6 p.m. special called meeting at City Hall, during which council members will listen to public comments on the task force's 13 recommendations ...
The task force has also called for a marker at Akard and Main streets to memorialize the mob lynching of Allen Brooks from the Elks Arch in 1910 ...
... Pleasant Grove's Rickey Callahan .. insisted Monday, "history is murky," and removing one Confederate memorial "is a slippery slope <because> once you get started you can never stop." He said if you take down the Confederate War Memorial today, what stops someone from removing the Washington Monument or Jefferson Memorial tomorrow? ...
... Philip Kingston replied that there "really is no slippery slope here" at all. Said Kingston, the Washington Monument is there not because George Washington owned slaves, but because "he saved our nation at least twice." And Thomas Jefferson isn't memorialized because he, too, was a slave owner, but because he wrote the Declaration of Independence ...
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