They Wasted No Time! Edenton Monument Removed (NC)
Edenton (quickly) relocates North Carolina Confederate statue after court decision
Edenton relocates North Carolina Confederate statue after court decision
Edenton’s Confederate monument has been removed and placed in storage for relocation; Mayor High says moving it “preserves and protects” history, not erases it. (Really, You're going to hide it in a park BEHIND the Courthouse. - DD)
The Confederate monument that has stood for decades at the foot of South Broad Street in Edenton is no longer there.
Crews removed the statue Saturday night, just days after a Superior Court judge dissolved a restraining order that had blocked the monument’s relocation since March 2023. The monument, dedicated to "Our Confederate Dead," had been the center of ongoing litigation and weekly protests for years.
13News Now confirmed Sunday that the statue is no longer at its previous location. Town officials said it has been taken down and placed in storage, where it will remain until it is reinstalled at Veterans Memorial Park behind the Chowan County Courthouse, as outlined in a Memorandum of Understanding between the town and the county.
The removal comes amid a wider debate in North Carolina over Confederate monuments, some of which carry highly controversial inscriptions. In nearby Tyrell County, one statue features a dedication reading…
I’m a transplant from the far northwestern area, and I see all the signs of the socialist scum infiltrating the midwest and south. It’s usually not the transplants themselves bringing commie ideas with them, because they (we) went through the miserable process of relocating thousands of miles in order to get away from that toxic scum. They bring their poisonous scum in through the universities. The universities are from where it metastasizes and destroys the local culture. The antichrist is most certainly tenured at a university.
It's the Democrats'/communists' way of saying screw the Southern Lands, and they are still trying to get a certain segment of the population to love them.