'White Lives Matter' sprayed on Arthur Ashe memorial

In The Sticks said:
Here's another BLM-defaced statue:View attachment 110086
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This was cleaned up the following day. According to this article, "Baldwin, who created one of the largest a locomotive manufacturing firms of his time, was an outspoken critic against slavery during the early 1800s, arguing for the right of African Americans to vote and founding a school in the city for black children. Baldwin’s statue was erected in 1906, and placed in its current spot outside City Hall in 1936."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/p...tionist-matthias-baldwin-go-viral/ar-BB15pqOm
 

StarSong said:
This was cleaned up the following day. According to this article, "Baldwin, who created one of the largest a locomotive manufacturing firms of his time, was an outspoken critic against slavery during the early 1800s, arguing for the right of African Americans to vote and founding a school in the city for black children. Baldwin’s statue was erected in 1906, and placed in its current spot outside City Hall in 1936."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/p...tionist-matthias-baldwin-go-viral/ar-BB15pqOm
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Right.

Cleaned up the following day. After the jerks vandalized anything that looked like a white guy from that era, and someone came behind them to reverse their stupidity.
 
In The Sticks said:
In leading up to the Civil War, the North offered to preserve slavery but to not yield on high tariffs and other economic policies that were detrimental to the South. Lincoln even said he was ambivalent on the institution.

To claim that the War was all about slavery is inaccurate. You can search to see the small percentage of households that actually held slaves. There were dirt-poor whites working the fields side-by-side with blacks, and those whites fought for the Confederacy.

From this site:
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Now there ya go speaking the truth & posting it ...... That is not permitted here ...... only personal agenda ......... <sarc>
 
911 said:
I remember reading a book about sports stars and there was a short segment about Ashe. I think he had a heart attack and needed bypass surgery. During the surgery, he received tainted blood with AIDS present. He then contracted the disease and later died. I think he was very upset about contracting the disease in this fashion and had a hard time accepting it. Maybe this what started the hospitals to start testing the blood before transfusing it. I forget.
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Yes, you are right. His was one of the first deaths of prominent, hetro men whose only source was tainted blood. His and Ryan White (the young hemophiliac) brought enough attention to the issue that blood transmission was universally accepted.

When the Arthur Ashe statue was erected, racism was alive and well in Richmond and old-time Richmonders were not happy.
However, they didn't seem to mind that another famous black Richmond native had been honored with a statue 20 years earlier

https://www.wtvr.com/2019/06/29/bil...reatest-tap-dancer-honored-at-richmond-statue
 

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