Associated Press
Five people were arrested after a clash about streets named after Confederate generals spilled over into a Hollywood, Florida city council meeting.
News outlets report the protesters were charged with disrupting the Hollywood commission meeting Wednesday night.
The disagreement involves three streets – Lee Street, named after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee; Hood Street, named after Gen. John Bell Hood; and Forrest Street, named after Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan member Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Jim Odel, a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, told commissioners the street names honor an important piece of history. Resident Benjamin Israel called Lee, Hood and Forrest traitors.
Five of seven commissioners must back the plan to have the names changed. So far only three agree.
Republished with permission of The Associated Press.
One comment
Allen Hartman
June 22, 2017 at 2:34 pm
I do not remember seeing monuments to Hitler or Mussolini and they are surely part of history and indeed are not forgotten in the History books. Lee, Hood, and especially Forest, were traitors who fought for the right to own and abuse other humans. Forest went even further and was part of an organization that launched a 100 year reign of terror based of racial discrimination, intimidation, and murder. Those defending them know this and are merely closet traitors and.or racists themselves.
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