As the warmer weather comes to us, the servants of hate, intolerance, and ignorance are once again raising their ugly heads around the Southland, hoping to destroy and suppress all public displays of honor for our beloved Confederate ancestors.
The latest monument to be placed in the cross-hairs is the Monument to the Confederate Dead in Louisville, KY. Currently sitting in a median between two streets & surrounded by the University of Louisville, the monument was erected by the Kentucky Women's Monumental Association in 1895. At about 11 a.m., Friday, April 29, 2016 (yesterday), the Mayor of Louisville and the university president gave remarks to express their intentions of removing the monument, stating that they would waste no time initiating the process. By the evening of that very day, work crews had placed a chain-link fence around the site and begun the process of excavating the monument's foundations. The stated plan is to remove the monument and have it placed at, what they deem to be, a more appropriate location, which has yet to be determined.
The Monument is on the National Registry of Historic Places as being significant to the history of the locality where it sits, but this does not offer any protection to the monument.
We encourage everyone who cares about seeing our historic Confederate monuments preserved to make your voices be heard by the "powers-that-be" in this situation! The following are a few ways you can contact the authorities in charge...
Greg Fischer - Mayor of Louisville, KY
Phone:
(502) 574-2003
Address:527 W. Jefferson Street
4th Floor
Louisville, KY 40202
Email:
(Click here to open the link and then fill out the form)
James Ramsey - President, University of Louisville
Phone:
(502) 852-5417
Address:
Grawemeyer Hall
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
Email:
(Click here to open the link and then fill out the form)
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Dr.JamesRamsey
(He's temporarily taken down his Facebook page. We'll update when it's back online.)
Thanks in advance to everyone who lends their voice in support of keeping this monument to our honorable heritage protected!
DEO VINDICE!
- Jonathan McCleese
Sergeant-at-Arms
Admiral Raphael Semmes Camp #1321 (Dearborn, MI)
Army of Tennessee, Sons of Confederate Veterans
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