It feels good. The people have been listened to and it feels good.

I'm just happy that taking down into the history behind it. It's not something that should be, you know, celebrated.

We've got another, it seems like there's been a kind of revival of the statue toppling brigade.

They never went away, but it's kind of they, they toppled all

the statues and they took a break, I guess, for a few months, and now they're back at it again.

So this is from USA Today. Cruz removed a Confederate monument from a Jacksonville, Florida Park,

earlier Wednesday, morning after years of debate and controversy over its removal.

Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan ordered the removal of the tribute to the women of the Southern Confederacy Monument,

which has stood north of downtown in Springfield Park since 1915.

Deegan said the monument was a divisive presence that had no place in a city park.

She said, quote, symbols matter.

They tell the world that we stand for and what we aspire to be.

By removing the Confederate monument from Springfield Park, we signal a belief in our shared humanity.

That we're all created equal, the same flesh and bones, the same blood running through our veins, the same heart and soul.

A crowd gathered on the sidewalk erupted in shears as Cruz took down two bronze statues,

one of a woman in robes carrying a Confederate flag, and the other of a woman reading to two

children.

And opponents of the removal, State Representative Dean Black blasted the move as a stunning

abuse of power by Deegan.

He said, doing it without consulting city leaders or having a vote by the city council is another in a stunning abuse of power by Deegan. He said doing it without

consulting city leaders or having a vote by the city council is another in a long line of woke

Democrats' obsession with cancer culture and tearing down history. So once again, this was

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