Bentonville’s Confederate monument was removed from the town square this morning. https://t.co/I3xsAhfYXn#confederacy #bentonvillear pic.twitter.com/djFb32CknP
— 4029news (@4029news) September 2, 2020
40/29 reports on the removal of the statue of a Confederate soldier from the town square in Bentonville
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By previous agreement, it will go to a private park. It was a blot on Bentonville’s downtown, thriving thanks to the huge investments by the Walton family, owners of hometown Walmart (suspicions are that family interests played a role in a deal with a Confederate group to move the statue.)
You can hear a scattering of cheers as the statue is lifted away.
Next: The two monuments to defenders of slavery on the state Capitol grounds.
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