The proposal by the Rev. Louis Coleman and the Justice Resource Center to remove the Confederate Monument is preposterous. It is a memorial to the Confederate dead of Kentucky and the South erected over 100 years ago. It is not a monument symbolizing slavery.

If Coleman and the Justice Resource Center want to do something about eliminating slavery, they should take a look at what is enslaving blacks in Louisville today. It certainly is not the Confederate Monument, but drug use, black-on-black violence, and a breakdown in the traditional black family.

I suggest that Coleman and the Justice Resource Center expend their energies on issues that have meaning for our black citizens today and not worry about a memorial to dead soldiers that is to become a relevant part of Freedom Park.

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