While opponents complain among themselves on social media that weak-minded city officials are bowing to the current "cancel culture" that seeks to erase history, a Richmond monument situated for decades in a quiet corner near the Fort Bend County Courthouse may soon be cast aside as an embarrassment to the county's history. City officials announced Tuesday a committee would be formed to consider the fate of the Jaybird Monument, a large obelisk statue erected in the city's post-Civil War Reconstruction era. "Our City thrives on being a place where hate and racial prejudices will not be tolerated," Richmond City Manager Terri Vela said in an official statement. "Our goal is to continue to preserve our history as an educational gateway while being sensitive to all the members of our community of today and tomorrow." Activists calling for the monument's removal urged city leaders to destroy or relocate the "racist and offensive monument" to be destroyed or relocated. "The monument as it stands redefines the word 'heroes' as White Supremacists, male chauvinists, leaders of the Battle of Richmond (who pitted) friends against friends, relatives against relatives, brothers against brothers, and forced African American citizens to leave their homesteads immediately, many without any other places to go because they or their forefathers had been brought here with the 'Old Three-Hundred' as slaves and refused to allow African American to right to vote simple because of the color of their skin," Barbara Jones said. "More importantly, they were just flat-out lawless men."