Davis Monument Data (as of 16 Jan 2018)

—Edit 17 Jan 2018—

 BPL Social Media, the YouTube channel on which the City of Brownsville live streams and uploads footage of their city meetings, replaced their live stream of the 16 Jan 2018 City Commission meeting with a higher quality video of the meeting. To present the data more clearly, I have replaced the screenshots with one from the high quality video.

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from: Dillion Vanderford (Parks and Recreation Dept)

to: Mayor and City Commissioners 

Video of 16 Jan 2018 City Commission Meeting

Start: 56:47

End: 1:03:32

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TOWN HALL EVENT 11/29/17

The memorial was erected in 1926 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

The memorial was defaced in September of 2017.

Event held at the Brownsville Event Center with the purpose of hearing from the public whether the Jefferson Davis Memorial at Washington Park should be relocated.

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EVENT TURNOUT

117 attendees signed in

43 (37%) of attendees spoke

31 (26%) of Brownsville attendees spoke

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ATTENDEE COMMENT BREAKDOWN

ALL CITIES

Relocate to Veterans Park 16

Relocate to museum 11

Keep as is 8

Complete removal 6

Other 2

Keep w additional education 1

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ATTENDEE COMMENT BREAKDOWN

BROWNSVILLE RESIDENTS

Relocate to museum 10

Relocate to Veterans Park 8

Keep as is 6

Complete removal 4

Other 2

Keep w additional education 1

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ONLINE/OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT FORUMS

BREAKDOWN OF COMMENT THEMES
BROWNSVILLE RESIDENTS (60)

Complete removal 19

Relocate to museum 16

Relocate to Veterans Park 9

Keep as is 9

Other 6

Keep add additional education information 1

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PRO VS CON

Con 36

Pro 19

Other 9

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RELOCATION

Entertain to relocate 25

Have monument nowhere 19

Keep monument 10

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BREAKDOWN OF COMMENT THEMES

ALL CITIES

Complete removal 32

Relocate to museum 26

Relocate to Veterans Park 17

Keep as is 11

Other 9

Keep add more education information 1

"Weight of a Terrible Past"

Artwork by yours truly,
Juan Fidencio Treviño II

The fate of a monument glorifying a white supremacist lies in the hands of the Brownsville City Commission tonight. Let us hope that they do not accept a position of servitude under the visiting neo-Confederates as their rebel leader, Jefferson Davis, would have enforced.

We do not need symbols of the Confederacy, white supremacy, or white power in Brownsville, Texas, and we should not welcome those who support and fight for the revival of a false whitewashed history that downplays our ignores the prevalence of racial discrimination and overall disrespect toward African-Americans then and now.