Lincoln statue unveiled

Richmond Times Dispatch ^ | 4/6/03 | Jeremy Redmon and Lindsay Kastner

[Non-Sequitur]

Richmond welcomed Abraham Lincoln back with patriotic music, enthusiastic applause and boos yesterday, 138 years after he entered the smoldering capital of the Confederacy.

Smiling children and dignitaries slowly lifted a forest green cloth, unveiling a life-size bronze statue of Lincoln and his son, Tad, at a spot near the James River.

[Non-Sequitur]

I still find it somewhat amusing that statues of Jefferson Davis and Robert Lee can sit in perfect safety up North, but the Lincoln statue will literally need a guard 24/7 to keep from being vandalized.

[Leroy S. Mort]

Was this an excerpt? I missed the part about the 24 hour guard. Or perhaps this was made from whole cloth...

[WhiskeyPapa]

"I'm a Southern man," said Edgerton. "When somebody does something as ignorant as put Abe Lin- coln in the capital of the Confederacy, how can I not come to protest it? You don't put a criminal up and call it reconciliation, and Lincoln was a war criminal on top of it."

Pitiful.

All this guy needs is an organ grinder.

Walt

[Non-Sequitur]

Was this an excerpt? I missed the part about the 24 hour guard. Or perhaps this was made from whole cloth...

Hang around some of the hard-core, lost cause sites for a while and see all the venom being poured out. I doubt that the statue will make it a month without being damaged.

[Non-Sequitur]

What's wrong with that? They put up a statue of Jeff Davis in the Capitol of the capitol of the Union.

[xm177e2]

April Fools?

[Hacksaw]

I still find it somewhat amusing that statues of Jefferson Davis and Robert Lee can sit in perfect safety up North, but the Lincoln statue will literally need a guard 24/7 to keep from being vandalized.

Slow day today?

[Non-Sequitur]

Nope. God's honest truth.

[Non-Sequitur]

Slow day today?

Hey, the Jayhawks are on their way to being Number 1, my Royals are 5-0, I'm just trying to spread some of the sunshine around.

[WhiskeyPapa]

What's wrong with that? They put up a statue of Jeff Davis in the Capitol of the capitol of the Union.

I guess Mr. Edgerton approves.

Jefferson Davis would presumably have considered him a fine example of a docile agricultural worker.

Walt

[TomB]

Hang around some of the hard-core, lost cause sites for a while and see all the venom being poured out.

Heck, come back to this thread in a couple of hours and see the "War of Northern Aggression" being fought all over again.

There are some here who seemed to have missed Appomatox.

[canalabamian]

"Jefferson Davis would presumably have considered him a fine example of a docile agricultural worker."

I guess Mr. Edgerton disagrees. I think he probably has a bit more credibility on your point than YOU do.

[putupon]

City residents have clashed over erecting a statue of black tennis star Arthur Ashe on Monument Avenue,

Arthur Ashe's black family refused to attend the unveiling of the black tennis star's statue. I never heard any quotes from them on why, but it could have been for any of or a combination of the following four reasons:

1. It is is out of context with subject matter and time period of surrounding architecture.

2. There are at least two other places where the statue would have been more appropriate, Battery Park where he played as a youngster or (my favorite suggestion @ the time) in the the place of the Columbus Statue, which in the middle of the well traveled Boulevard across from the courts where Ashe wasn't allowed to play during the segregation days of his youth.

3. Its just a crappy statue; looks like hes holding a book out of reach of some kids and trying to beat them away w/ a tennis racket.

4. They recognized it for what it was, another transparent attempt to stir up racial crap by leftists to suit their own agenda, just like sticking Lincoln here yesterday was.

So it's been around eight years between contoversial statues. I wonder if some leftist front organization is already getting started on plans for the 2011 Start Racial $hit in Richmond Statue and who it will be of? A Saad El Amin, Sheriff Micele Mitchell, or Mayor Rudy McCollum on an empty Monument Ave intersection would probably suit their purposes well.

[ml/nj]

a life-size bronze statue of Lincoln and his son, Tad

Is that the same son that the Great Man secretly abandoned, allowing him (and his mother) to continue riding on a train the Great Man believed would be attacked with fatal consequences?

ML/NJ

[LS]

Hahah. A Lincoln-hater appears. Doesn't take much for you guys.

[Non-Sequitur]

Is that the same son that the Great Man secretly abandoned, allowing him (and his mother) to continue riding on a train the Great Man believed would be attacked with fatal consequences?

What on Earth are you talking about?

[putupon]

"The same things that we are struggling for in Iraq today are not so different from the things he was struggling for 138 years ago," said Bill Laslett, a Richmond architect and self-described "big fan of Lincoln."

True, true. Just like Hussein, Lincoln locked up people suspected of having different political opinions without benefit of trial.

[A2J]

Lt. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine

Traitor.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I'm not surprised that the guys who paid for the "Sic Semper Tyrannis" banner chose red as their color. Thus it is with the paleocon left.

[ml/nj]

What on Earth are you talking about?

So you mean you don't know?

I used to think Lincoln was a great man too. Then I read some history. It's not always easy because you have to go beyond the pap they gave us in high school. Sometimes you have to go read the newpapers of the time. Try starting with The New York Times from February 25 and 26, 1861.

ML/NJ