Donna Deegan — a progressive Democrat who toppled her Republican opponent to win the mayoralty in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ backyard — had pledged to topple the monument and line…
Donna Deegan — a progressive Democrat who toppled her Republican opponent in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ backyard — had pledged to topple the monument and lined up the dollars to do so.
Erected in 1915, the monument is one of the last Confederate memorials remaining in Jacksonville, the nation’s largest city in terms of contiguous land mass.The six-foot sculpture — designed by New York-based artist Allen Newman — presents a woman holding open a Bible while flanked by two children. Politically sensitive statues became a flashpoint cultural issue after the George Floyd protests in 2020, with groups nationwide demanding the removal of objectionable monuments — and in some cases removing them by force.A former news local news anchor and staunch supporter of Black Lives Matter, Deegan spoke at a rally to remove all local Confederate monuments and said the city should rightly be “ashamed” of the Springfield Park statue as a civic blight.
Jacksonville’s first female mayor, Deegan hosted Vice President Kamala Harris for a speech last week.to rail against elements in Florida’s education curriculum that critics say minimize the horrors of slavery by insinuating that the system had some peripheral benefits.“Just yesterday in the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery,” Harris said. “They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it.
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