... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported.The city council will give the statue to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which plans to melt the monument to create a new piece of public artwork, according to the measure.
The city council selected the Jefferson School’s proposal "Swords Into Plowshares," from other potential bidders for the statue, according to The Times.
According to its Indiegogo campaign page, the Jefferson School plans to "transform a national symbol of white supremacy
...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happinessfirst will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with
white supremacistsocieties, since they push the same values...
into a new work of art that will reflect racial justice and inclusion."
"It is a community based project that all of the voices in the community will be able to articulate what we want in our public spaces, as opposed to objects that were given to our community that highlighted a particular ideology that we no longer share," Jefferson School center executive director Andrea Douglas said.