Ultimately, it was LawDude who'd set the highest bid. So at 11:45 am central time, on June 5, for a price of $1,435,000, he became the new owner of Dallas's discarded statue of a Confederate generalpic.twitter.com/xPkRQwPKhM
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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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