by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Donald Trump had barely finished caterwauling about the loss of the "beautiful statues and monuments" following the Charlottesville tragedy when somebody out in Arizona decided to get truly creative in dealing with one of these edifices to a time when slavery was the law of the land. A vandal - or a freedom-inspired artist - depending on one's point of view, took it upon himself or herself to deface a roadside monument to Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy, and the medium used in the attack was one with a long history in America's struggle with race: tar and feathers.
The incident occurred near Gold Canyon, Arizona, a community sometimes mistakenly referred to as "Gold Camp" along Highway 60 southeast of Apache Junction and about forty miles west of Phoenix. The area where Arizona holds its annual Renaissance Festival is just a bit further down the same highway.
The monument to Jefferson Davis was erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy in the 1940's. One area resident was quoted in the Phoenix press as saying that someone had put a lot of thought into the attack, and it would be expensive to clean up. Police have taken samples of the tar and feathers used in the incident.
It is unclear at this time whether or not any local poultry have been detained for questioning.
Also this week in the Scorpion State, someone hung a "second-place participation" banner on a memorial to the state's Confederate soldiers at the State Capitol in Phoenix. It had a ribbon with the message, "You lost, get over it."
Trump is coming to visit next Tuesday, Arizona - tell him how you really feel!
Citizen Journalist
Donald Trump had barely finished caterwauling about the loss of the "beautiful statues and monuments" following the Charlottesville tragedy when somebody out in Arizona decided to get truly creative in dealing with one of these edifices to a time when slavery was the law of the land. A vandal - or a freedom-inspired artist - depending on one's point of view, took it upon himself or herself to deface a roadside monument to Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy, and the medium used in the attack was one with a long history in America's struggle with race: tar and feathers.
The incident occurred near Gold Canyon, Arizona, a community sometimes mistakenly referred to as "Gold Camp" along Highway 60 southeast of Apache Junction and about forty miles west of Phoenix. The area where Arizona holds its annual Renaissance Festival is just a bit further down the same highway.
The monument to Jefferson Davis was erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy in the 1940's. One area resident was quoted in the Phoenix press as saying that someone had put a lot of thought into the attack, and it would be expensive to clean up. Police have taken samples of the tar and feathers used in the incident.
It is unclear at this time whether or not any local poultry have been detained for questioning.
Also this week in the Scorpion State, someone hung a "second-place participation" banner on a memorial to the state's Confederate soldiers at the State Capitol in Phoenix. It had a ribbon with the message, "You lost, get over it."
Trump is coming to visit next Tuesday, Arizona - tell him how you really feel!
1 comment:
It's really difficult to keep up with news breaking so fast, isn't it? AZ seems so yesterday now that Bannon is leaving..... what can possibly come next? resignation perhaps?
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