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Jefferson Davis Statue Defaced in Texas

AWKWARD

Students want the statue gone.

Students at University of Texas in Austin are trying to get a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis removed from campus, and now vandals have defaced it. Scrawled across the sculpture have been the phrases “Davis must fall” and “Emancipate UT.” A majority of the Student Government adopted a resolution in March to have the statue removed.

Read it at Huffington Post

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