Kentucky’s governor called Thursday on a state commission to vote to remove a statue of Jefferson Davis from the state Capitol’s Rotunda, a day after …
Kentucky’s governor called Thursday on a state commission to vote to remove a statue of Jefferson Davis from the state Capitol’s Rotunda, a day after another statue of the Confederate president was toppled by protesters in Virginia.
Gov. Andy Beshear’s request comes amid a rapidly unfolding protest movement to pull down Confederate monuments around the U. S. after the death of George Floyd. The black man died after a white Minneapolis police officer put his knee on the handcuffed man’s neck for several minutes, even after Floyd stopped pleading for air.
The Democratic governor called the statue a divisive symbol, saying it has to go.
“It is long past due to remove a statue that some kids who come into this Capitol… see as a symbol that they don’t matter, a symbol of the enslavement of their ancestors and a symbol of the continued systematic racism that we see in so many parts of our society,” Beshear said.
