Originally Posted by Guest

My older brother said that this should be determined by a single statue by statue approach as some of these pieces of work having nothing to do with making African Americans feel bad about their past. They are about the soldiers who fought and died at times. Other statues look they are about getting in the face of the African Americans. He has traveled a lot in VA, NC, SC so knows more about what statues are where.

People want easy solutions too quickly. History is complicated.

Marion Barry seems like a very poor choice to me too.