Civil rights organization wants Jaguars, NFL to join Confederate monument removal effort

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The Confederate monument successful Springfield Park remains closed and covered.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Northside Coalition of Jacksonville, the astir outspoken civilian rights enactment successful the River City, is renewing its propulsion to bring down a Confederate monument that sits successful Springfield Park.

The enactment not lone wants the Jacksonville Jaguars and Shad Khan to articulation their origin but besides NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell himself.

“NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Jaguars proprietor Shad Khan should backmost up their comments against racism with action...We request the league and the Jaguars to basal up courageously and talk retired boldly against the racism which confederate monuments represent,” Frazier wrote successful a quality release.

The merchandise continues that the conjugation and different advocates volition conscionable astatine noon connected Sunday astatine 1 of downtown Jacksonville’s busiest intersections, Union and Main Streets. The objection comes an hr earlier the Jaguars are acceptable to play the Houston Texans astatine home.

Attendees program to clasp signs, protesting The Women of the Southern Confederacy Monument and the city’s unwillingness to region it, contempt Mayor Lenny Curry promising successful June 2020 each monuments to the Confederacy successful Jacksonville would beryllium taken down.

The Northside Coalition spent weeks, from September to November calling for action-- that included respective demonstrations wrong metropolis hall.

Possibly, arsenic a result, a motion was posted extracurricular City Hall informing radical not to participate offices without permission. Law experts questioned whether that was legal to enforce. The mayor’s bureau denied News4JAX’s then-request for comment.

The origin mislaid steam aft City Hall refused to ballot connected the removal backing successful mid-November (The vote was 12-6.) Legislation to region the monument could person been reintroduced astatine immoderate time, but Mayor Curry, who submitted the archetypal removal proposal, has not yet.

However, the latest enactment by Frazier whitethorn propulsion the contented backmost into headlines and, much importantly, onto City Council’s agenda.

Critics of the removal said the monument represents portion of Jacksonville’s past and would beryllium excessively costly to relocate, saying $1.3 cardinal could beryllium amended spent.

Opposition commentator Seber Newsome III of Yulee told News4JAX successful October helium would similar to spot the $1.3 cardinal spell to programs that are moving to trim crime, drugs, and/or homelessness.

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