In Tuskegee Alabama, two very different narratives have been occupying the same space since 1906. Known as a beacon for black empowerment, the city founded the Tuskegee institute to educate southern people of color whose families had been enslaved for generations.
At the same time, white families prepared a monument dedicated to rebel soldiers in a downtown park reserved exclusively for white people. That monument still stands today in the same park, owned by a confederate heritage group, and sitting in the heart of a predominantly black neighborhood of around 10,000 people, less than 3% of them white.
Students from the university have tried and failed to take down the statue, and people are not optimistic about it’s removal. “I think it would probably take a bomb to get it down,” said the president of the Tuskegee Historic Preservation Commission.
Source: https://atlantablackstar.com/2018/08/10/a-confederate-monument-stands-in-a-predominately-poor-black-neighborhood-and-theres-little-chance-of-it-being-taken-down/
