Anti-Slavery statue to be erected in Richmond

[Bill the Cat]

http://www.richmond.com/news/virgini...120f2eb5a.html

[TheWall]

Why not just get more people to read Frederick Douglass?

[Sparko]

http://www.richmond.com/news/virgini...120f2eb5a.html

Turner was the first Antifa-BLM member to punch Nazis. well, stab them. And their children.

He sets the example for today's freedom fighters who will continue in his great tradition of killing, maiming and destroying people and property.

[Bill the Cat]

Turner was the first Antifa-BLM member to punch Nazis. well, stab them. And their children.

He sets the example for today's freedom fighters who will continue in his great tradition of killing, maiming and destroying people and property.

The uprising was a key part of Virginia's history, so I have no problem including it in a statue dedicated to the process of how Virginia wrestled with slavery. Despite his and his mob's despicable bloody methods, it is important to understand the significance of the event in the history of Virginia's attitudes on slavery at the time. We can't use moral outrage to pick and choose what we consider significant events worthy of memorializing. Same goes with the Confederate leaders. All were significant in their own way, and all should remain memorialized as parts of Virginia's complex history.