If you've ever been to Dallas Love Field in Texas you know there's an iconic statue of a Texas Ranger in the lobby.
Correction... There WAS a Texas Ranger statue in the lobby.
People have become offended by the statue because the Texas Rangers have an imperfect history and almost one-hundred years ago they may have been mad at black people.
The weirdest part about this news: the Dallas base team is also named about the Texas Rangers. Does this mean they also have to change the team name?!
A statue of a Texas Ranger inside Dallas Love Field airport was removed Thursday due to an excerpt from an upcoming book, officials said.
Officials said the statue, which was donated to the city in 1963, is a depiction of a Texas Ranger who will apparently be mentioned in a forthcoming book.
A new book on the Rangers, “Cult of Glory,” offered chilling details about dark chapters of the Rangers’ history. The book by former Pulitzer Prize finalist Doug J. Swanson, a longtime reporter for The Dallas Morning News who is now on the University of Pittsburgh faculty, says the statue depicts Capt. Jay Banks. The captain was in charge of a Ranger contingent dispatched in 1957 by then-Gov. Allan Shivers to keep black students from enrolling in Mansfield’s high school High School and a Texarkana community college despite court rulings that should have prevented Shivers from doing so.
Swanson told his former newspaper that “Banks became sort of the face for that because there’s a famous picture of him leaning against a tree in front of Mansfield High School while a black figure hangs in effigy above the school, with Banks making no effort to take it down.
“And Banks sided with the mobs who were there to keep the black kids out. So, he was the face of that and of a statue that welcomes people to Dallas,” he said.
Swanson also noted the title “One Riot, One Ranger” came from a Ranger’s report of a scene at the Grayson County Courthouse in Sherman in 1930, when a black man stood trial for assaulting a white woman. The mob eventually set fire to the courthouse and roasted the black man alive after he sought refuge in a courthouse safe.
Law enforcement team who tracked down and killed notorious outlaws Bonnie and Clyde (l-r) (top row): Ted Henton, Dallas County sheriff P.M. Oakley, B.M. Cault; (bottom row): Bob Alcoru, sheriff Henderson Jordan, and Texas Ranger Frank Hamer.