Posted on 07/07/2020 1:41:50 PM PDT by Perseverando
For a century, Monument Avenue has showcased some of the Confederacy’s most revered figures.
Soon, there will be a blank canvas.
Over the past week, the Richmond Times-Dispatch asked demonstrators, residents, artists and community leaders what they'd like to see on the new Monument Avenue.
There were suggestions of new statues, honoring a more inclusive set of heroes. Others wanted a space for performance or reflection, while some felt the empty pedestals should stay as a historical testimony of their own.
One point of agreement was that it must be a communitywide conversation.
Through restrictive covenants, real estate companies long advertised property there based on the premise that “no lots can ever be sold or rented in Monument Avenue Park to any person of African descent.”
Now, presented with a fresh opportunity to imagine one of the city's most prominent promenades, Richmond has the rare opportunity to redefine itself to the world.
Replacement statues Most nights, the Robert E. Lee monument is adorned with projections by Richmond-based artists Alex Criqui and Dustin Klein. On a recent night, they used images of Black Union soldiers.
The idea of replacing Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis and others with famous Black Americans would reframe the message communicated by the street.
Suggestions for replacement statues collected for this story ranged from leaders of the civil rights movement — Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and W.E.B. Du Bois — to locals such as civil rights attorney Oliver Hill and Richmond Planet editor John Mitchell Jr.
Richmond’s Paul DiPasquale, the sculptor of Monument Avenue’s Arthur Ashe statue, has helped the city take down Ashe’s Confederate counterparts. He said the intention is to eventually remove the bases upon which previous statues stood.
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I think it should look like hundreds of Antifa punks in orange jump-suits rebuilding at gunpoint every single last one of the original monuments, bigger and shinier.
That would look really nice.
“...One point of agreement was that it must be a communitywide conversation. ...”
Yeah, right. Like any input from the right will be allowed.
Who cares?
Like
Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Che, Pol Pot.
What is a Virginia?
Heard it was once a state.
definitely a statue of Oprah Winfrey. maybe as you just turn in... then... koby bryant... and his daughter... michael jordan... michael jackson... maybe not... ben carson... no sorry wrong party... clarence thomas too... spike lee, if he changes his last name...
Virginia is for lovers afterall...
Trayvon?
Their devoted cult followers care. And you won't like what follows.
The state of Virginia is too close to that sinkhole named Washington, D.C.
Mildred and Richard Loving
Like that is going to happen, or perhaps all of the white conservatives and traditionalists have already left town.
Low-income housing. That always works.
Put the statues back up. Get rid of the ISIS Stalinist Satanists in Richmond. Start with that racist pig dictator Wreck-It Ralph.
A row of middle fingers on either side of the avenue, and a giant statue of Trump at the traffic circle.
It's called "brutalism" for a reason
Democrats George Wallace, John McClellan, Ross Barnett, Lester Maddox . . .
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