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Police monitor the Calhoun monument at Marion Square.

FOCUS: Council vote may bring down Calhoun statue this week

Staff reports  |  Charleston City Council is poised Tuesday evening to vote on a resolution forwarded by Mayor John Tecklenburg to remove the statue of John C. Calhoun from atop a 110-foot pedestal at Marion Square.

Calhoun, a former vice president and powerful senator in the years before the Civil War, advocated and developed the political theory of nullification, which holds that states should be able to invalidate federal laws.  Never legally upheld in federal courts, this principle of state’s rights was used by slave-holding states to break away from the United States when, most historians agree, the war was caused for economic reasons to perpetuate the system of human bondage of enslaved Africans.

If the Wednesday vote, which reportedly has the backing of all members of council, is not challenged in the courts, observers say the statue could be down as early as Wednesday morning, a relatively swift end to a controversial statue that has been a thorn in the side for the city’s African Americans for more than a century.

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NEW for 6/22: On taking down a monument and repealing an act

NEW for 6/22: On taking down a monument and repealing an act

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Photo by Jackson Bailes.

BRACK:  Don’t be timid about reform; Ask for more

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher   |  Now is not the time for the state’s black legislators to be timid.  Now is the time to demand much more than has been on the table in a long time.

For the generations from slavery through Jim Crow and into modern times, South Carolina’s African American population has been beaten down, physically, mentally and emotionally. 

by · 06/08/2020 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views