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    Statues to people who deserve them- Built and unbuilt

    https://twitter.com/pigs_meat/status/1279369480624365569?s=20

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    In Tennessee: Knoxville has an Alex Haley statue and Clarksville has one for Wilma Rudolph.

    https://tennesseerivervalleygeotouri...5-59deee866d4d

    https://www.visitclarksvilletn.com/p...wilma-rudolph/
    Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 20-07-2020, 21:13.

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      #3
      Pittsburgh has one of Roberto Clemente

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        #4
        Perhaps the closest one to us is of Eleanor Roosevelt

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          #5
          Rachel Corrie was the first person to pop into my mind as someone who deserves one.

          Thought about John Coltrane, but there is a statue of him in his hometown of High Point, North Carolina.

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            #6
            Originally posted by KyleRoteJr. View Post
            Rachel Corrie was the first person to pop into my mind as someone who deserves one.
            Rachel Corrie has a commemorative memorial at Evergreen State College



            Interesting to see that the Journalist who co-edited (with Alan Rickman) the play "my name is Rachel Corrie is now editor of the Guardian.


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              #7
              Arthur Rowley is a football player who should have a statue.

              Mrs Thistle has repeatedly said that Hereford should have a statue of Frank Oz with Yoda, Grover and Miss Piggy. It would give people a reason to go to Hereford.

              I think Wilfred Owen should have a statue. He has a sculpture that looks like a pontoon in the grounds of Shrewsbury Abbey.

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                #8
                I think we just have to stop commissioning statues.

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                  #9
                  I’m more than pleased that Frank Sidebottom, Eric Morecambe and Bon Scott all have statues.

                  Not claiming they deserve one, but they make a lot of people a lot happier than most statues do.

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                    #10
                    Influential former slaves in Britain, who don't have statues, but who are commemorated:

                    https://www.newstatesman.com/culture...-johnsons-heir
                    There's a portrait of Francis Barber in Dr Johnson's house.

                    Cesar Picton has many things named after him around Kingston.

                    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Picton

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                      #11
                      Gabriel Prosser
                      Denmark Vesey
                      Nat Turner

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                        #12
                        From my travels:

                        Ray Charles has a plaza in Albany, GA, and a statue in Greenville, FL.

                        Bessie Smith has a cultural centre named after her in Chattanooga, but it was closed when we were in the city yesterday.

                        Fred Shuttlesworth has a statue in Birmingham, AL, near the churches where he and MLK organized the protests of 1963 and where four schoolgirls were murdered by a KKK bomb. This is a beautiful video about the latter location:

                        https://civilrightstrail.com/attract...aptist-church/

                        We are driving the Selma to Montgomery march route tomorrow.
                        Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 23-07-2020, 20:22.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by gavc23 View Post
                          ... and Bon Scott all have statues.
                          Not one, but two.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View Post

                            I think Wilfred Owen should have a statue. He has a sculpture that looks like a pontoon in the grounds of Shrewsbury Abbey.
                            Wilf has a newish statue in Oswestry. Given that him and Barbara Pym are the only Oswestrians of note, there probably should be one of her, but nicely understated fiction and statues are not an obvious fit.

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                              #15
                              Monuments at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama. The one of John Lewis is currently adorned with flowers. I will post up the photo we took yesterday when I get home but this is the story behind it

                              https://www.ajc.com/news/local/get-t...DeriTCUb41lEL/

                              Obama's visit in 2015 and the 50th anniversary commemoration

                              https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov...50-years-later

                              Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery commemorates victims of racial terror

                              https://abcnews.go.com/US/museum-mem...ry?id=54727774
                              Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 25-07-2020, 12:04.

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                                  #17
                                  Not a statue but today we drove through Plains, GA, birthplace of Jimmy Carter, meaning we are currently in peanut and pecan territory. We visited Carter's Presidential Library in Atlanta about 3 years ago.

                                  WTF fact: Carter was the first future President to be born in a hospital.

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                                      #19
                                      Was Carter perhaps the first truly non-racist President (and still the only non-racist white President) or is that expecting too much of a man born in Georgia in 1924, even though he had black friends as a kid?

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                                        #20
                                        I had no idea that John Lewis's casket was going to be taken across the bridge today, just two days after we paid our respects at his memorial plaque at the site

                                        https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...t44-story.html

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                                          #21
                                          There's a statue of Gandhi in Cardiff Bay. I have no idea why or what connection Gandhi has with Cardiff at all.

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                                            #22
                                            There's a statue of Ignatius J. Reilly in New Orleans, I've got a photo of me with it somewhere.

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                                              #23
                                              Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View Post
                                              There's a statue of Gandhi in Cardiff Bay. I have no idea why or what connection Gandhi has with Cardiff at all.
                                              A symbol of struggle against English oppression? A similar relationship with Churchill? A shared belief in the ultimate goal of Moksha, uniting the soul with Brahman by realising its true nature? Probably something like that.

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                                                #24
                                                Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View Post
                                                I had no idea that John Lewis's casket was going to be taken across the bridge today, just two days after we paid our respects at his memorial plaque at the site

                                                https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...t44-story.html
                                                Rolls eyes.
                                                Surely you had better things to do with your time than pay respects to him?

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                                                  #25
                                                  Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View Post
                                                  There's a statue of Gandhi in Cardiff Bay. I have no idea why or what connection Gandhi has with Cardiff at all.
                                                  Rolls eyes. Fuck Gandhi.

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