The Wisconsin State Journal reports:
One Confederate monument is gone and another is slated to be taken down at Forest Hill Cemetery after Madison Mayor Paul Soglin ordered their removal.
Soglin said in a statement Thursday that he directed city staff to remove a plaque and a larger stone monument at the Confederate Rest section of the public cemetery, saying, “There should be no place in our country for bigotry, hatred or violence against those who seek to unite our communities and our country.”
The decision aligns with similar ones throughout the United States to remove statues and monuments dedicated to the Confederacy after a violent protest Saturday involving neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, left one person dead and several others injured.
So the Mayor of Madison , Wisconsin (named after slave owner James Madison) is getting upset about Confederate monuments ! Comrade Soglin was Mayor of Madison way back in the 1970's why didn't he take the monuments down back then? Did he just find out about them? Or is Paul Soglin a racist for allowing those monuments up all those years? No word yet on when Comrade Soglin will demand that Madison, Wisconsin change its name. Comrade Soglin is all smiles down below with mass murderer Comrade Castro.
