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Grizzlies’ Ja Morant to Judge: Tear Down ‘White Supremacy’ Monument

The NBA player wrote a letter to a Kentucky judge about a statue of Robert E. Lee in the town where he went to college.

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By Tracy Connor

Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant went to college in Murray, Kentucky, and says a monument to Confederate general Robert E. Lee in the city weighed heavily on him as a student. Now he’s written a letter to a Kentucky judge asking him to eject the statue from outside the Calloway County courthouse. “As a young Black man, I cannot stress enough how disturbing and oppressive it is to know the city still honors a Confederate war general defending white supremacy and hatred,” Morant wrote. The letter comes as Confederate monuments across the country are being taken down or toppled amid Black Lives Matter protests.

Read it at USA Today

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