After the Wednesday meeting of the city of Charleston’s history commission – the first since the sudden December appearance of a controversial 2.4-ton Confederate highway monument in Marion Square – it’s still unclear how it got there.
But the only African-American member of the Commission on History, well-known leader Wilmot A. Fraser, urged his colleagues to push for removal of the Robert E. Lee Memorial Highway marker.
“I am 86 years old and suddenly it reappears,” he said. “It makes you think that the change and decency that Charleston has stood for is not present in the current milieu.”…