| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Chessa | |
| 2 | Anonymous | Those who bend with the breeze make poor trees. Leave the honors where they are. Removing the remembrance dishonors history. |
| 3 | Judson L. Watkins | Don't remove the remneince of our heritage.
Judson Watkins |
| 4 | Joel R. Watkins | Please do not remove our southern history. These statues represent a part of all American's history.
The Alamo represents a battle against Mexico, but their are not any Hispanics crying to tear it down.
It's also part of history. |
| 5 | Milton T. Burton | |
| 6 | Bill Fowler | Censorship is a country's greatest enemy! You either believe in the 1st Amendment or you don't. Someone will always find fault with whatever is current or not current. What is currently acceptable will be unacceptable later. It is your choice to truthfully educate students or to continue to propangandize history. Tell a big enough lie long enough and it becomes the truth. Joseph Geobels, Propaganda Minister to Adolph Hitler. A people separated from their heritage are easily persuaded. Karl Marx, author of the Communist Manifesto. |
| 7 | Charlie Broadway | |
| 8 | Anonymous | |
| 9 | Jack Enright | Might I suggest that President Powers remembers that history is what it is, whether we like it or not. You can't airbrush it out of existence, like the Russians tried to do in the 1940's and 50's. The Confederacy, and the War, happened, and was just one step on the way to where America is now. I would also suggest you remember the warning given by an American President; "any country which forget it's history will be compelled to relive it."
Jack Enright, Derbyshire, England
(a friend of ALL the states of America) |
| 10 | Christian Tafoya | Any and every part of our heritage shuld be presevered at all costs. |
| 11 | cindy Bobbitt | |
| 12 | Craig Scheel | |
| 13 | Jessy Crews | You should really consider the impact this could make on society. I mean really if you just keep on chipping away at our history it will be a one sided war. "The confederates did all the unethical and disgraceful stuff". That’s what people will say in fifty years if you keep taking down our history. Then people will be confused. Especially the descendants of the southern soldier who really care about their anscestorage. You wouldn’t consider removing the Lincoln memorial. Lincoln once said something around the lines of 'I will repair the union, they are my money.'
Don't try and erase our history...or you will have a bunch of unhappy Texans. Southern Heritage, this is a democracy, ruled by the minority. But why in the world will they remove our history! |
| 14 | David Richardson | The Confederate heroes of the War For Southern Independence are an important part of American history. Their honorable service to both the C.S.A. and U.S. should be admired by all Americans regardless of racial origins. |
| 15 | Kevin Keim | |
| 16 | Kevin Keim | |
| 17 | Adam Phifer | |
| 18 | Jay Leib | Southern Heritage IS a valid part of American History. Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis were TRUE civil servants acting to protect their homeland from invasion, just like Texas troops who fought for the Confederacy to keep Texans and fellow Southerners from being savaged by Union forces.
Who else shall be erased to appease inaccurate "politically correct" revisionism? Will venerable Southern Americans like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison soon be "verboten" at UT Austin as well?
Please consider long and hard about how you serve the students of UT Austin. Do you really think that acting like a "politically correct" Bowdler will aid young minds? What about challenge and discovery beyond the bounds of biased faculty or administration? What is your university for if it does not stimulate one to examine the TRUTH about The War Between The States? They then might learn that most, if not all, Southerners sought to save hearth and home from the rapine of the plunderous Union armies. |
| 19 | Cody Marshall | Ditch the politicians, not the statues! |
| 20 | James P. Graham | Robert E. Lee was a great and honorable man, and any attempt to remove his statue from the University of Texas should be thwarted. The great State of Texas was once part of the Confederate States of America, and any attempt to dishonor our heritage is cowardly and unacceptable. I am a proud graduate of The University, and make annual contributions to the University I love. However, I will turn my back on any further requests for financial assistance should officials at The University choose to "mess" with the proud history of my native Texas.
James P. Graham '70 |
| 21 | Alan C. Huffines | When did Orwell's predictions come true? Everyday. This must stop. |
| 22 | Anonymous | These statues are part of our history. They are not there to offend anyone, but to commemorate a significant time and event in the United States. The statues are not altars praising these men's deeds, they are simply there to document their place in our history. We cannot edit history to accomodate the whims of a few people. This is ridiculous. |
| 23 | Anonymous | Do not remove the statues. They are part of our history. |
| 24 | R. Avil Murphy | It would show total disrespect for Robert E. Lee and Jeff Davis to remove these statues. NAACP
complains about things that they should accept
as an honor to their race. These men are to be
praised for their dedication for the human race. |
| 25 | Bethlyn Hand | |
| 26 | Mike Shaw | Denison, Texas
Perhaps the university should be doing more to teach history so that the students involved would understand what these men were fighting for. Texas and its history should be honored. |
| 27 | Judy Watkins | How...going about the business of removing honors for men who risked there lives to save their country...How, has this not been clasified by the U.N. Security council already as a crime against humanity. Is it not our charge to honor the dead and not disgrace , shun and hate them.
They did not know you and you did not know them. All you can do is honor them.
Judy |
| 28 | Jack Watkins | I am a member of a good standing church, the masonic lodge, and an American society. In church and the lodge we strive to help a brother and when we cant help him (when he has passed) we honor his existence. In the American society we should do the same. I am proud to be an American, But I am not proud of where we are going to with this.
Keep the statues and satisfy the majority of the public, the way a democracy is supposed to be ran by a majority vote. |
| 29 | JD Mayo | |
| 30 | Anonymous | |
| 31 | Amanda Nunnay | |
| 32 | Franklin Southerland | |
| 33 | Anonymous | |
| 34 | robert hayhurst | leave history alone |
| 35 | Anonymous | |
| 36 | Anonymous | |
| 37 | coley clark | Give it a rest. Leave the statues of Robert E. Lee and Jeff Davis. |
| 38 | Marilyn Bolding | Keep the statues where they are |
| 39 | Anonymous | |
| 40 | Dorothy Stephenson | These historical figures are part of our nation's history, although a shameful part. Removal of statutes doesn't remove the stain. In fact, it helps us remember. Do not remove these statues. |
| 41 | Cecil D. Conner | Since Robert E. Lee and President Jefferson Davis were both national leaders before the War of Northern Aggression, and due to the influence of
General Lee AFTER the war, as he pulled the troubled Washington College (later Washington and Lee) out of its troubles, and worked tirelessly
to promote healing and racial equality, I respectfully
request that you keep their statues in place. I would
like to remind you that, although General U.S. Grant
kept his "personal servant" (i.e., slave) until the 13th ammendment freed him, and since Robert E.
Lee manumitted his slaves as soon as he inherited
them. Many of Abraham Lincoln's family members
also kept their slaves until the 13th ammendment
freed them.
Under no circumstances do I condone slavery,
but would also like to go on record that several
of my ancestors (one direct and one collateral) were
slaves, and might I add, one came from Ireland,
the other from the Colonial America. We need to
remember that not all slaves were African-Americans, and not all slave owners were white.
I firmly believe that General Robert E. Lee was the
greatest man America has ever produced! |
| 42 | Ed Krevit | Just another attempt to erase our Confederate History. If UT was having a problem getting enough students to attend then I think there enrollment numbers would be down instead of up. UT needs to quit hiring Presidents and faculty from out of state. |
| 43 | Ben C. Sewell III | Academic learning centers ought to be leading the charge against revisionist history as opposed to subjagating their institutions to the whims of political correctness, the likes of which are quickly eradicating our freedoms in this great country. |
| 44 | Amber | Removing those statues is like saying that part of history didn't exist. While some may not agree with the Confederate cause, they still fought with the same bravery and strength as the Union soldiers. They too deserve to be honored and remembered. The NAACP should understand that if the South hadn't seceded and those men hadn't fought, they're ancestors never would've been freed. It should remind them of what could've been and what that war did for them. It's not a symbol of racism, it's a symbol of fighting for what you believe in and how our country grew as a nation. Let the statue stand! |
| 45 | Bryan Sharp | "...political correctness has replaced witch trials and communist hearings as the preferred way to torment our fellow countrymen." ~Sharyn McCrumb,
"Ghost Riders," Signet (2004), p. 9 |
| 46 | Fred C Wilhite | One day the gravy train y'all are riding on will end, That will be the time to form a committee, and ask, do we only have our selves to blame. |
| 47 | Basil Childress | Sir Winston Churchill-- "No nation can long survive without pride in its tradition." And no people can remain a people without the symbolic reminders (statues, etc) that remind of that tradition. This country is throwing away its heritage one monument at a time. Cicero-- "To know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain ever a child." |
| 48 | Robert Posey | Removing statues of great men can not nor will not change history. Please leave the statues in place. |
| 49 | Jon & Cynthia Henry | |
| 50 | Clyde LeFevre | WHY is the University considering capitulating to a glaring HATE campaign by ignorant, misinformed bigots? WHAT has this vile hatred got to do with EDUCATION? WHY NOT advocate TRUTH of our history rather than a myth? |