LITTLE ROCK — The Democratic Party of Arkansas says Confederate monuments should be removed from public grounds and placed in museums and privately owned spaces.
The party said in a statement Thursday that "Objects that romanticize the darkest days of our history do not belong on taxpayer funded public grounds."
Confederate monuments around the country are being removed under pressure from those who say they honor an era in which African-Americans were enslaved.
Several monuments have been removed across the nation in the days since a white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., over plans to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee broke out into deadly violence.
Arkansas Democratic Party spokeswoman Jessica DeLoach said there are no plans to formally propose the monuments' removal.
On Wednesday, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson stated that racism must be “rejected,” adding that he’s against dismantling Confederate monuments erected in Arkansas.