College students take aim at 19th Century editor's statue Some Georgia State University students are demanding that Atlanta's mayor remove a prominent downtown statue of a 19th Century newspaper editor who called for maintaining white supremacySome Georgia State University students are demanding that Atlanta's mayor remove a prominent downtown statue of a 19th Century newspaper editor who called for maintaining white supremacy in the South. But Grady also campaigned against equality for freed slaves, saying “the supremacy of the white race of the South must be maintained forever." In biographies in Georgia, Grady is often described with glowing praise and the views he espoused about black people are often omitted. “The supremacy of the white race of the South must be maintained forever, and the domination of the negro race resisted at all points and at all hazards – because the white race is the superior race,” Grady said at the Texas State Fair in 1887. In 2016, students there wrote an editorial in the school's newspaper calling Grady a white supremacist.

Source: ABC News December 04, 2019 14:03 UTC