January 15, 2019
SO MUCH WINNING...:
Alabama judge overturns law protecting Confederate monuments (Gina Cherelus, 1/15/19, Reuters)
An Alabama judge has voided a 2017 state law preventing the removal or alteration of historic memorials, saying it infringed citizens' free-speech rights and effectively enshrined a pro-Confederacy message in the southern U.S. state.The ruling was the latest blow in an ongoing national fight over memorials to the pro-slavery Confederacy, which lost in the 1861-1865 U.S. Civil War. Backers of the monuments call them a tribute to history and heritage, while opponents decry them as powerful tributes to institutionalized racism.
Posted by Orrin Judd at January 15, 2019 2:22 PM