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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This should be fought just like the Left fights anything good for America - delay, sue, make additional demands and make sure that nothing happens till after we are all dead of old age.
FWIW, I found this about the Lenin statue in Seattle on wikipedia:
Maybe a scene of woke whites on their knees, washing the feet of BLM rioters AND the current Gov. Of VA. In blackface.
“...some felt the empty pedestals should stay as a historical testimony of their own.”
This. Let the defaced bases stand as mute testimony to our madness.
People should take some time to read Lee’s biography.
His record at West Point
His service in the Mexican American war
His character and experience which caused him to be offered the leadership of the Union and Confederate armies
The importance of states rights in 1860 thought
His instructions to his troops at Appomattox
His friendship with Grant
His service as President of Washington College
His efforts at reconciliation.
Then look in the mirror and see how you measure up!
Make sure Richmond preserves a burned out storefront as a monument to this protest.
Those bastiches stole my custom-made toilet paper design!!!
(I call it "wiping off Obama with Obama"...)
replacing confederate-related statues with all-black statues of non-Virginians isn’t very inclusive now is it?
If they want to replace statues in VA, then they should go deeper into Virginia’s history: Mary Draper English, Anne Burras, Temperance Flowerdew, Anne Hennis Trotter Bailey, Rebecca, wife of Daniel Boone, Jemima, indian-captive daughter of Daniel Boone, Dolly Madison, John Smith, Sir Walter Raleigh, a memorial to the indentured servants that settled Virginia, a memorial to the early Lutheran, Baptist and Methodist preachers that settled the wilderness of Virginia. Lewis and Clark, Opechancanough, Walter Reed, Cyrus McCormick. And on and on.
W.E. Dubois, born in Mass and brought up in an integrated community, supported black eugenics (aka selective breeding) and a superiority of ‘the black intellectual elite’; indicted with other members of the CAA for subversion; NAACP socialist who believed capitalism caused racism; opposed separate but equal while promoting separatism thru Pan-Africanism
Rosa Parks - also not born in Virginia. NAACP communist. Gained fame through challenging ‘separate but equal’ policies, but then became a supporter of ‘separate but equal’ militant theologies of the Black Panthers and Malcom X
MLK, enough said.
How about statues of Step N. Fetchit and Calypso Louie?
Who wants to go to these places anymore? The tourist industry will be hurt.
I will never visit Virginia —There is nothing left that is historic. Next they will burn the statehouse—It was the Confederate Capital building—and the White House of the Confederacy too. Virginia has caught the California virus. In the new Civil War they will side with President Nancy P. and revile President Trump in his new capital in Texas. I hope Gen Donald Trumps Jr’s Army of the Carolina’s Burns it to the ground on his victorious march on Washington.
I will never visit Virginia —There is nothing left that is historic. Next they will burn the statehouse—It was the Confederate Capital building—and the White House of the Confederacy too. Virginia has caught the California virus. In the new Civil War they will side with President Nancy P. and revile President Trump in his new capital in Texas. I hope Gen Donald Trumps Jr’s Army of the Carolina’s Burns it to the ground on his victorious march on Washington.
I will never visit Virginia —There is nothing left that is historic. Next they will burn the statehouse—It was the Confederate Capital building—and the White House of the Confederacy too. Virginia has caught the California virus. In the new Civil War they will side with President Nancy P. and revile President Trump in his new capital in Texas. I hope Gen Donald Trumps Jr’s Army of the Carolina’s Burns it to the ground on his victorious march on Washington.
lol, I just rented that off Amazon the other day.
I hate the history erasers.
I will never set foot inside city limits again nor spend one dime there.
Yes, Zardoz. And remember what its situation was: a self selected elite living in isolated bubbles, while everyone else was consigned to misery and deprivation, and slave labor led by “the brutals”, who murdered everyone else when their numbers became too great.
Sounds something like the world Antifa wants.
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