There's some great contemporaneous coverage of the Ashe statue debate in this if you've never read it: https://www.amazon.com/Confederates-Attic-Dispatches-Unfinished-Departures-ebook/dp/B003YJEZXW … RIP Tony Horwitz
As Richmond takes down the Confederates on Monument Avenue, I stumbled across this jaw-dropping time-capsule from 1995, when they were arguing over putting up the Arthur Ashe statue. https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/09/us/race-tinged-furor-stalls-arthur-ashe-memorial.html …pic.twitter.com/42ZBqDmZkP
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right after i found the article i wondered if tony horwitz had written about this particular moment and .... and then i remembered :(
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"Confederate-American"?!?
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I laughed at “Confederate-American population” for roughly 15 minutes.
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I too like to laugh at things that don't exist.
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Wow what a find!!
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Danville, VA says it all
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