service that they have given to black folks since 1903 or 1905 or the forming of the organization, which, by the way was formed by republicans. w i mean, got high unemployment with blacks. that should be a complete focus for these folks, young black teens who are committing lots of crime because they don t have jobs. s they don t have opportunity. they have stolen the imagination, the creativityni from these young folk. and now they want to shift their focus to helping daca. it s ridiculous. other thing, tucker, they h should add to the lawsuit,t, donald trump, the president, he should add the coconspirators of barack obama, the congressional black caucus. i call them the congressional black circus and all the cocktail sipping enablers. they are enabling this type of nonsense. the naacp if it wants to help black americans as you describe, they should be focusing on teenage pregnancy. they should be focusing on education. better education.ri tucker, we know what a black neighborhood mea
context. that s number one. and whether or not the venue supports that context. and depending on what the results are from that particular study, which i anticipate would be done, you know, fairly quickly, then we ll make the determination as to whether or not there s a more suitable place, whether or not they should remain where they are or if there s another suitable place for them. up to this point, we have identified two that exist within our inventory. one was placed in 1905 and one was placed in 1908. but we want to be very thoughtful. we want to be very deliberative and we want to do it in such a way where we re not trying to eliminate history, no matter how dark it may be, but we want to make sure they re placed in the most appropriate venue, considering the context. we don t want to celebrate or glorify that dark history, so we don t want them to be placed in such a way where they re celebrated, where we are glorifying their presence, but we want to place them in such a way wh
reflects, and that the city as a whole can move forward in a very unified fashion. mr. mayor, let me ask you about what i believe to be one of those two that you just mentioned. more than 2,500 people have signed a petition to remove what is called the spirit of confederacy monument. that is correct. what do you say to those folks that think that you should move that immediately and get rid of all these confederate symbols and the others that say, let s keep it there. well, i think it s important for us to take a look at our inventory. that particular statue, the spirit of the confederacy, is located in the sam houston park in the downtown area, and i think it was placed there in 1905. and so we are taking a look at it. i ve established a committee, and once they have reviewed it and determined the appropriate context of that particular statue and made a determination of whether it s in the best place, then we will act and we ll act very quickly on it. but i do believe it is ve
protective barrier around all of those times of icons of the civil war and the confederacy. the law they thought they were going to tie the hands of municipalities to prevent them from taking down these statues or monuments. this particular statue or monument was erected in 1905. it was commissioned in 1901. and what womb have to remember, in 1901 the state of alabama created a new constitution and somewhat it was in direct defiance of the federal government. and that also leads you to understand that the government itself was sed i guess against the u.s. government. some people have never gotten over that. and these statues were erected not just here in birmingham but all over the country, in particular the confederate states to show an act of defiance. it was not to commemorate, not to memorize but to show direct
twisted toe tell me they seek. so for the sake of public safety, public reassurance, to magnify healther s voice and to repudiate the pure evil that visited us here i m calling today for the removal of these statues. and now a look back. it was arguably the ep i center of the civil rights movement. birmingham, alabama. in the spring of 1963 what started as a series of anti-segregation peaceful protests exploded into what looked like war on american city streets. the sheer violence and chaos of those days has been preserved, captured in some of the most iconic photographs ever taken. and then there s this. a physical representation of the confederacy. there is a monument honoring confederate soldiers and sailors across the street from birmingham city hall. it was built in 1905. it s 52 feet tall and it stands there to this day. sort of. on tuesday birmingham s mayor