call it karma:

[rae121452]

Ownership of Richmond's Confederate monuments will transfer to Black History Museum
Fri, 31 Dec 2021 02:57:18 GMT
Gov. Ralph Northam, D-Va., and Democratic Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney announced Thursday that state and city governments had reached an agreement to transfer...


and white folks' heads all over dixie just burst into flame.

 

[pecksniff]

I guess they are black history artifacts, in a sense.

 

[KeithD]

The Lee statue in Charlottesville (which kicked off the Unite the Right demonstration there, around the statue, in August 2017) was given to a black cultural center in what had been in a segregated-black junior high school in a section of the downtown that had been all black owned and that had mostly all been leveled in the early 1960s for urban renewal that never then happened. The center is going to melt it down and will have a competition to design some sort of new work of art.

The pity is that the statue--especially the horse--has been denoted as a superior work of art. I joined in suggesting that they save the horse and just put that up on a pedestal (Traveler--the horse--didn't have any guilt for anything), but they paid us no heed.

 

[pecksniff]

I just hope they never destroy that bas-relief on Stone Mountain. It has artistic value.

 

[Lazaran]

The Lee statue in Charlottesville (which kicked off the Unite the Right demonstration there, around the statue, in August 2017) was given to a black cultural center in what had been in a segregated-black junior high school in a section of the downtown that had been all black owned and that had mostly all been leveled in the early 1960s for urban renewal that never then happened. The center is going to melt it down and will have a competition to design some sort of new work of art.

The pity is that the statue--especially the horse--has been denoted as a superior work of art. I joined in suggesting that they save the horse and just put that up on a pedestal (Traveler--the horse--didn't have any guilt for anything), but they paid us no heed.

I hear what you're saying, but it really ALL had to go.

I don't particularly like the idea of making a "new" statement piece from the melted down original statue either. You know some Deplorables will vandalize it at the first opportunity.

I think it would be better to just leave an extremely noticeable void where the offending monument to racism once stood.

It would be poignant, while not providing an opportunity for some form of twisted Deplorable retaliation.

JMTCW

 

[pecksniff]

I hear what you're saying, but it really ALL had to go.

I really don't like the idea of making a "new" statement piece from the melted down original statue either. You know some Deplorables will vandalize it at the first opportunity.

I think it would be better to just leave an extremely noticeable void where the offending monument to racism once stood.

It would be poignant, while not providing an opportunity for some form of twisted Deplorable retaliation.

JMTCW

Then they'll just hire one of those living-statue guys to dress up like Lee and stand on the spot until the cops force him off it.

 

[KeithD]

I don't particularly like the idea of making a "new" statement piece from the melted down original statue either. You know some Deplorables will vandalize it at the first opportunity.

Actually, I'm more concerned that, going with the political correctness of the day, the replacement will be just as objectional in the other direction.

 

[pecksniff]

Actually, I'm more concerned that, going with the political correctness of the day, the replacement will be just as objectional in the other direction.

Kinda kewl, maybe, if it's a Black Panther being fellated by a white girl or something of that kind.

 

[Lazaran]

Actually, I'm more concerned that, going with the political correctness of the day, the replacement will be just as objectional in the other direction.

Deplorables will see ANY replacement as "objectionable", and desecrate it.

And yes, I too believe it would be a huge mistake to exploit the opportunity by tweaking the bent noses of legacy racist traitors with a piece that is obviously designed to provoke and taunt them. (Even though that is EXACTLY what the giant statue of Lee and other confederate monuments were intended to do.)

My advice to those in charge of replacing the glorification of America's racist past is, BE BETTER!!!

*nods* and *chuckles*