"A statue of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy during the Civil War, was removed from its prominent location at the center of the University of Texas at Austin on Sunday, marking a success for a student-led movement that gained momentum after the shooting massacre at an historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
The statue of the Confederate leader has been displayed for decades in the most prominent open space of the campus, sitting along with other Confederate leaders, such as Albert Sidney Johnston, John H. Reagan, and Robert E. Lee.
But on Sunday morning, more than 100 people watched as the statue was wrapped in protective plastic and taken down with a forklift."
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Set apart for greater reflection:
"Xavier Rotnofsky, student body president of the university, told BuzzFeed News some in the crowd compared the event to the infamous toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003 after the U.S. invasion of Iraq."
http://www.buzzfeed.com/salvadorhernandez/university-of-texas-at-austin-to-remove-statue-of-confederat?#.ug8Ml86O6Utter stupidity from the student body president.
