This is so shockingly a repeat of the Jackson, Mississippi water debacle that I had to look twice at the city names to see if I’d confused them.
I hadn’t – the news stories definitely said ‘Richmond, VA.’ The same Richmond that was wrapped around the statues axle a couple of years ago.
The city of Richmond — the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War — has removed its last public Confederate statue.
Richmond removed its other Confederate monuments amid the racial justice protests that followed George Floyd’s killing in 2020. But efforts to remove the statue of Confederate General A.P. Hill, which sits in the middle of a busy intersection near a school where traffic accidents are frequent, were more complicated because the general’s remains were interred beneath it.
Spent the money, got rid of those offensive eyesores no one had noticed…
