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Confederate and American flags are shown for sale at a store in Huntsville, Ala. A group calling itself White Lies Matter stole a monument to Jefferson Davis in Selma, Ala., in March and is now ransoming it. (Photo by Ty Wright/Getty Images)
SELMA, AL An anti-racism group calling itself White Lies Matter took responsibility in a letter to local media for stealing a Confederate monument last month in Selma, Alabama, and won t return it until its demands are met.
In the Monday letter, the group said it wasn t seeking cash in return for the monument, a stone chair honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Instead, the group said it just wanted a Civil War historic preservation group to display a banner acknowledging America s original sin of slavery.
A Confederate monument that disappeared from an Alabama cemetery last month is being held for ransom.
A group calling itself “White Lies Matter” says it has stolen the Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair and will turn the stone relic into a toilet unless its demands are met, according to emails reportedly sent to AL.com and The Montgomery Advertiser this week.
The group isn’t seeking cash, but instead demands that the United Daughters of the Confederacy hang a banner bearing a quote from Assata Shakur outside its headquarters in Richmond, Va. The organization wants the sign to go up Friday the 156th anniversary of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender in the Civil War, the Montgomery Advertiser reported.
4/6/2021
Stolen Confederate Monument will Become a Toilet Unless ‘White Lies Matter’ Demands are Met, Group Vows Breaking News
A group claiming responsibility for the theft of a Confederate monument in Selma, Ala., laid out ransom terms in emails to local media Monday.
The price for the relic’s return? Not cash, but a demand that the headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Richmond hang a banner quoting a Black radical on Friday, the 156th anniversary of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at the end of the Civil War.
The Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair, which was first reported missing from Live Oak Cemetery in Selma last month, is an ornately carved stone chair that was dedicated in 1893 to the Confederate president’s memory and is estimated to be worth $500,000.
Stolen Confederate monument will become a toilet unless White Lies Matter demands met, group vows
Gillian Brockell, The Washington Post
April 6, 2021
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The Live Oak Cemetery in Selma, Ala., prominently features a memorials to Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, pictured, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis.Washington Post photo by Jahi Chikwendiu.
A group claiming responsibility for the theft of a Confederate monument in Selma, Ala., laid out ransom terms in emails to local media Monday.
The price for the relic s return? Not cash, but a demand that the headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Richmond hang a banner quoting a Black radical on Friday, the 156th anniversary of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee s surrender at the end of the Civil War.