A statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis that sits as a centerpiece of the University of Texas’ Main Mall was vandalized sometime Wednesday night or early Thursday, reports statesman.com.
It seems that the anti-white movement in Cape Town, South Africa, that succeeded in getting a statue of Cecil John Rhodes removed, is spreading to the USA.
A message stating “Davis must fall” was spray painted in red across the pedestal on which the bronze statue of the Confederate leader stands. This echoes the “Rhodes must fall” slogan in at the University of Cape Town.
UT police discovered the vandalism at 8:42 a.m. Their investigation in ongoing. In the meantime, a cleanup crew has been sent to scrub the message from the statue, a UT spokeswoman said.
The statue has drawn the ire of students recently. Last month, the student government voted to remove the statue from the campus, sending a resolution to university administrators that is under review. And in early March, someone scrawled the word “chump” on the statue in chalk. – statesman.com