Ummm...Johnny Cash isn't replacing anything.
Posted on 04/18/2019 10:11:52 AM PDT by SMGFan
The country music legend and civil rights leader Daisy Gatson Bates will replace controversial Civil War figures
The times are changing, and so is the marble. Arkansas is leaving behind statues of the old guard and sending a few new faces to the U.S. Capitol.
Civil rights icon Daisy Gatson Bates and musician Johnny Cash will join the Statuary Hall collection in D.C., replacing 19th-century attorney Uriah Milton Rose and statesman James Paul Clarke. The governor of Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, made the plan official by signing a bill last week.
Both Rose and Clarke were political figures during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Though he opposed secession, Rose was loyal to Arkansas, a Confederate state during the war. Clarke, whose descendants have grappled with his racist views, was a United States senator and governor of the state.
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Why not Elvis?
Johnny Cash? Nice. Skip Elvis, please.
Wait.. Johnny Cash is still alive?
I’m good with Cash. Heard his cover of “Hurt” the other day. Dark dark dark song. He did it better than the original.
TN can replace Andrew Jackson or John Sevier
I'd rather see one of Gary Sinese.
Just like the el/hi schools and universities are dumbing down young folks about American History the Democrats are doing their best to change our history and tradition just like Michelle Obama said Barack was going to do.
Not to worry, the Johnny Cash statue will be replaced in a few more years after some perceived slight surfaces.
Ummm...Johnny Cash isn't replacing anything.
Absolutely. Technically it’s a cover, but that became HIS song.
You probably know he was dying of cancer when he recorded it, and knew it, right?
142 million views, wow!
replacing influential military and political leaders with entertainers and identity activists. Well at least the changes are accurately reflecting modern values.
Rose is the founder of Rose law firm. On the whole, I’ll take Cash.
So did Hillary...
That’s just half a step from Michigan sending
Eminem and Madonna.
If you can have your cake, and eat it too, why not? At least that is the world’s way.
Life ain’t easy for a boy named Sue...JC was decades ahead of the curve...
You joke but we are very close to the day statues of Washington and Jefferson are ripped down to be replaced by ones of Beyoncé and Alyssa Milano
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