DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — A North Texas historian is calling for the City of Dallas to get rid of all of its confederate statues.
His name is Michael Phillips, and he posted to Facebook Wednesday that it’s time to “exorcise the ghosts of the confederacy, which still haunt the Dallas landscape.”
He’s referring to the Confederate War Memorial in Downtown Dallas near the convention center. The memorial has stood since 1896.
Phillips has written a petition signed by other educators, pastors, and scholars — he says he’s hoping it reaches Mayor Mike Rawlings and the Dallas City Council.
He says he does not want the monument destroyed. Instead, Phillips says it should be preserved in a museum so it can be viewed in historical context, rather than out in the open.
Phillips’ Facebook page says he is a professor at Collin College.
