Then, a few days before the auction ended, things got a little heated. Two bidders, lawdude and mustangjerry, were locked in a bidding war, raising the price of this statue ever higherpic.twitter.com/zRnazCOpch
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Baltimore, which also took its statues down in 2017, has received requests from "pro-Confederate institutions" to buy its statue of an official said. (The city declined.) (here's a story from the day its statues came down: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/us/baltimore-confederate-statues.html …)
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The American Civil War Museum, in so many words, does not want your city's old confederate statues. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/us/baltimore-confederate-statues.html …pic.twitter.com/0dlX5lY1nt
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One professor
@smervosh talked to suggested a symbolic, if not literal, torching of Confederate statues. “That is how you take the power of it,” he said.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/22/us/confederate-statues-dallas-nashville.html …Show this thread -
Meanwhile, Richmond, Va., on Saturday (today!) is renaming a major boulevard after Arthur Ashe. The road cuts across Monument Avenue, that one with its giant statues of Confederate generals.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/sports/richmond-is-at-a-crossroads-will-arthur-ashe-boulevard-point-the-way.html …
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I don't know the ultimate fate of the Dallas Lee statue and it's mysterious buyer, or the dozens of others that have been taken down but not (yet?) destroyed. Cities are, as
@smervosh notes, still figuring that out.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/22/us/confederate-statues-dallas-nashville.html …Show this thread -
But I want to end this thread by asking you to go read this incredible essay from
@kurtstreeter about the newly named Arthur Ashe Boulevard in Richmond, the capital of the Confederacyhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/sports/richmond-is-at-a-crossroads-will-arthur-ashe-boulevard-point-the-way.html …Show this thread
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