Don’t Take It Out On Ole Jeff Davis
The wave of political correctness has been eroding this country for over a year now, and there isn’t much in the way of goodness or prosperity to show for it. I, for one, am getting tired of reading about how diversity should take precedence over tradition. A fragment of the population has deemed certain things of historical and American value to suddenly be offensive. I, for one, am offended! The following article is yet another example of how the PC police are going crazy. It has to stop, or everything will be targeted for annihilation.
UNIVERSITY SUBTLY REMOVES MONUMENT
An 85-year-old monument to Confederate president Jefferson Davis on the Texas State University campus vanished without a peep last week.
Following a year of outcry from students, professors and community groups, the granite memorial along one of San Marcos’ busiest roads was quietly uprooted on Friday and moved to a site seven miles away in Hunter, on land donated to the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Texas State spokesman Jayme Blaschke told reporters that although the monument sat on campus property, it technically never belonged to the University.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy installed the roadside marker almost 90 years ago on federal land, as part of the proposed transcontinental Jefferson Davis Highway. The University later acquired the land, but the Texas Department of Transportation maintained the right-of-way where the marker was situated. For that reason, Blaschke said that an official announcement was unnecessary.
“It is not an appropriate monument for a modern Texas university,” Blaschke said.
Kathy Hillman, Texas division president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy tells us that, “The university paid for everything: removing it, cleaning it of graffiti, moving it to Hunter and setting it there,” she said, calling it a “very good” collaboration.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy installed the monument with great fanfare in 1931. Efforts to purge the Confederate monument from campus gained traction last September when the faculty senate passed a resolution in favor of removal. After the faculty vote, Texas State sent a letter to the Texas Department of Transportation to officially request its removal.
The removal of the Davis monument from campus is now fueling an already vigorous black student organizing of protests at Texas State. On Saturday, around 125 students engaged in a sit-in during the national anthem at the school’s football game – their fists in the air.
The same group that initiated the student government proposal to remove the Davis monument is using this “victory” to force the University to create a “Black Studies” program this fall and they are also demanding the Honors College to designate a no-whites allowed “multicultural lounge.”
(Article courtesy of Dixie Heritage Newsletter, Oct. 7, 2016 ed.)
J.D.R. Hawkins 