Dallas Officials Remove Texas Ranger Statue from Airport
June 7, 2020 in News by RBN Staff
source: www.breitbart.com
Officials at Dallas Love Field airport removed a statue of a Texas Ranger from the lobby after a new book casts shadows on the allegedly racist history of the man posed for the artwork.
The statue came under scrutiny in 2017 as “the Dallas City Council expressed support for the removal of unwelcoming symbols,” Dallas Love Field officials wrote in a Facebook post. “In light of a recently published excerpt from a forthcoming book and image of the model for the Texas Ranger sculpture that shows flippancy toward racial insensitivity, Dallas Love Field and the Office of Arts and Culture have removed the statue of the Texas Ranger from its current location and placed it in storage until a broader community dialogue can take place.”
In 2017, the Dallas City Council expressed support for the removal of unwelcoming symbols. In light of a recently published excerpt from a forthcoming book and image of the model for the Texas Ranger sculpture that shows flippancy toward racial insensitivity, Dallas Love Field and the Office of Arts and Culture have removed the statue of the Texas Ranger from its current location and placed it in storage until a broader community dialogue can take place.
The apparent insensitivity of one individual is not an indictment of the Texas Rangers as a whole, however, given the issues we face as a City and a nation, the presence of this sculpture in a prominent location at the airport needs to be evaluated.
The sculpture was a donation to the city in 1963 when policies requiring the extensive review of public art donations were not in place.