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A blank canvas, and an opportunity for reinvention: What should the new Monument Avenue (Richmond, VA) look like?
Richmond Times-Dispatch ^ | July 6, 2020 | Zach Joachim

Posted on 07/07/2020 1:41:50 PM PDT by Perseverando

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To: Perseverando
There were suggestions of new statues, honoring a more inclusive set of heroes....Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. ...W.E.B. Du Bois...Oliver Hill...John Mitchell Jr.

I guess inclusiveness applies only to blacks. Whites, Asians, Latinos, etc. need not apply.

21 posted on 07/07/2020 2:01:40 PM PDT by HarleyD
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Richmond’s Monument Avenue should look like the old version—honoring the Confederate States of America and her heroes!!!!

PHOOEY to cancel culture!!!!


22 posted on 07/07/2020 2:01:42 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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23 posted on 07/07/2020 2:03:03 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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Newton falls Ohio has offered to take all offensive statues and display them.


24 posted on 07/07/2020 2:04:12 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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25 posted on 07/07/2020 2:04:14 PM PDT by piroque ("When the SHTF I'm gonna hunker down until all those idiots kill each other. ")
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To: Perseverando

Put up twice as many statues of confederates and a central bronze hand statue titled: America Flipping Off Political Correctness.


26 posted on 07/07/2020 2:04:24 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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How about an inverse Mount Rushmore. Instead of heads of
Ralph Northam, Terry McAuliffe, Bob McDonnell, Tim Kaine,
Mark Warner, and others back to Patrick Henry. Instead of standing, each would be facing outward from the walkway grasping his ankles. Each plaque would have the name of the governor with his dates of service and the note “This is how this governor viewed the taxpayers.”


27 posted on 07/07/2020 2:04:40 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (I miss Don Imus!)
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To: Travis McGee
Their devoted cult followers care. And you won't like what follows.

Ah yes, the heroes, aka Comrades, of the demoKKKrat party.

28 posted on 07/07/2020 2:04:45 PM PDT by Perseverando (Liberals, Progressives, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder.)
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To: Perseverando

It will now stand as a shameful act upon the city.


29 posted on 07/07/2020 2:06:23 PM PDT by stockpirate (Anyone who believes Epstein killed himself is a fool, and the DNC wacked Seth Rich)
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To: Perseverando

Well, I’m that didn’t take long. Submit a FOIA request for city council meeting minutes, this has been planned and discussed.


30 posted on 07/07/2020 2:06:36 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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I would fight any effort to put any statue up whatsoever.


31 posted on 07/07/2020 2:10:43 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Honorary Serb

“honoring the Confederate States of America and her heroes”

Bunch of losers.


32 posted on 07/07/2020 2:11:36 PM PDT by FewsOrange
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33 posted on 07/07/2020 2:12:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Gov Northam on his knees fellating Obama.


34 posted on 07/07/2020 2:12:22 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/city-manager-proclaims-newton-falls-sanctuary-city-for-rejected-statues-of-historic-us-figures/


35 posted on 07/07/2020 2:13:17 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Perseverando
The idea of replacing Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis and others with famous Black Americans would reframe the message communicated by the street.

So changing it from all white guys to all black guys is "a more inclusive set of heroes"?

36 posted on 07/07/2020 2:14:08 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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The could probably get a genuine Russian Joseph Stalin for cheap....


37 posted on 07/07/2020 2:15:05 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also. Wall)
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To: Perseverando

Robert Byrd, in full Grand Exalted Waffle garb. 100 feet tall.


38 posted on 07/07/2020 2:15:37 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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Al Sharpton in a mink coat riding a horse. A horse riding Don Lemon from behind.


39 posted on 07/07/2020 2:16:55 PM PDT by chuckee
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"Robert Byrd, in full Grand Exalted Waffle garb. 100 feet tall."

Good one. I think they should put up monuments to the 98% of white folks who DID NOT OWN SLAVES BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR ANYWAY.

40 posted on 07/07/2020 2:18:19 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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