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WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) called on his home state of Kentucky to consider moving its statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from the prominent perch it now commands at the state legislature to a Kentucky history museum.
McConnell's advice Tuesday came in response to a question about the significant number of leaders of the southern rebellion against the United States who are honored with statues and portraits in the U.S. Capitol. Just behind McConnell as he spoke was a large portrait of former South Carolina Sen. John C. Calhoun, one of the more virulent racists to grace the Senate, and a leading advocate of war with the U.S. He famously said that slavery was not a necessary evil, but in fact "a positive good."
Davis' statue sits in the Kentucky Capitol, McConnell pointed out, despite the fact that Kentucky was not actually part of the Confederacy. Davis was born in Kentucky and the state was the subject of intense fighting during the Civil War.
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Good riddance to all racist symbols of the past.
