A North Carolina appeals court has ruled in a case involving a Confederate monument standing outside a central North Carolina courthouse.

A North Carolina appeals court ruled Tuesday that local leaders who refused calls to remove a Confederate monument from outside a county courthouse acted in a constitutional manner and kept in place the statue at its longtime location in accordance with state law.

The three-judge panel unanimously upheld a trial court judge’s decision to side with Alamance County and its commissioners over the 30 foot (9.1 meter)-tall statue, which features a Confederate infantryman perched at the top. The state NAACP, the Alamance NAACP chapter, and other groups and individuals had sued the county and its leaders in 2021 after the commissioners rejected calls to take the statue down.

Confederate monuments in North Carolina, as elsewhere nationwide, were a frequent focal point for racial inequality protests in the late 2010s, and particularly in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. North Carolina legislators enacted a law in 2015 that limits when an “object of remembrance” such as a military monument can be relocated.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    241·
    8 months ago

    Imagine if Germany allowed Hitler monuments… or worse, as in Atlanta, carved portraits of the Nazi leadership into the side of a mountain…

    • NJSpradlin@lemmy.world
      31·
      8 months ago

      Let’s not forget here, that your example of ATL and Stone Mountain… is private land and not government land, courthouse grounds. The ATL and GA governments have nothing to do with it, and if they did or attempted to we’d have another issue regarding the rights of the land owners and board that runs the park there.

      I’m all about exercising equal religious representation of courthouse or government land, and tearing down statues commemorating traitors or slave owners, again on government land, but government overreach is a thing I also don’t want to support too much.

      Edit: it has been brought to my attention that I misremembered, it’s privately operated and managed, but state owned.

    • Forester@yiffit.net
      44·
      8 months ago

      From my understanding this is a monument to represent the common soldier who died not any particular person of note. IMHO we should keep the statues of the common men tricked into suck wars even if they were on the wrong and losing side. In my opinion, it is important to remember the human cost. Not glorify any leaders.

      https://pomortzeff.com/german