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Liam O'Dell
Apr 14, 2021
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A stone chair dedicated to Confederate president Jefferson Davis has been used as a toilet after its owners, the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), failed to meet the demands of the group which stole it.
White Lies Matter (WLM), who stole the monument from an Alabama cemetery in March, said they would safely return the chair if the UDC displayed a banner from Black Liberation Army activist Assata Shakur at their Virginia headquarters for 24 hours.
The banner reads: âThe rulers of this country have always considered their property more important than our lives.â
A flyer from the group, published by the Montgomery Advertiser, said it would be returned unharmed if their demands were met, adding that âweâll even clean it up for youâ.
However, they warned that âfailure to surrenderâ to the request would see the chair âbeing carved into a toiletâ.
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âJefferson Davis doesnât need it anymore. Heâs long dead.
âLike most Confederate monuments, it mostly exists to remind those whoâs freedom had to be purchased in blood, that there still exists a portion of our country that is more than willing to continue to spill blood to avoid paying that debt down,â an email from the group, published by The Associated Press (AP), reads.
WLM wanted the banner displayed from 1pm local time on Friday, the anniversary of the date the Confederacy surrendered in the American Civil War.
Yet last Wednesday, the group said the UDC had given them âevery indication that they had no intention of hanging the bannerâ, prompting them to alter the chair prematurely before returning it.
Patricia Godwin, a member of the UDC, previously told the AP: âThey need to return the chair. Itâs grand theft.â
Photos of the chair being used for its new purpose accompanied WLMâs statement.
Speaking to AL.com, WLM said: â[We] will contact them directly with coordinates indicating where the chair is located. The chair will not be returned to the cemetery.â
Local law enforcement have expressed their disbelief at the whole saga, too, with District Attorney Michael Jackson saying Selma, the area in Alabama, is âlike The Twilight Zoneâ and that thereâs ânever a dull moment hereâ.
After hearing the news last Wednesday that the chair would be returned, Jackson said: âThis is getting stranger and stranger.
âHopefully they will clean and sanitize it before they return it.â
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