Kentucky Town Welcomes Confederate Statue Removed From Louisville

[TomSea]

Kentucky Town Welcomes Confederate Statue Removed From Louisville
By Reuters On 5/30/17 at 3:29 AM

U.S.

A small Kentucky town gave a formal welcome on Monday to a monument to the Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War, rededicating the controversial structure after the University of Louisville removed it as an unwelcome symbol of slavery.

About 400 people, some dressed in grey replica uniforms and many holding small Confederate battle flags, gathered for the Memorial Day ceremony on a bluff above the Ohio River in Brandenburg, about 40 miles southwest of Louisville.

The town embraced the tower at a time when Confederate symbols are being removed across the South as reminders of a legacy of slavery and the racism that underpinned it.

Continued: http://www.newsweek.com/confederate-monuments-louisville-kentucky-617198

Oh, but how can this be? We heard on this forum that Kentucky was one of the places the Union allowed to have slaves and they forced no decree on it.

[Hondo69]

Oh, but how can this be? We heard on this forum that Kentucky was one of the places the Union allowed to have slaves and they forced no decree on it.

Facts are funny things.

It depends upon whom is making them up.