They start taking down the statue later today.
It will go into storage until the city can decide who gets it. There have been requests for the statue some out of the state and some in the state.
Thank goodness that statue and the one of stonewall jackson are coming down.
It is long overdue. The statues never should have been erected in the first place.
Stonewall Jackson was more of a patriot and man than you'll ever be.
Hell of a warrior. Dismal human being
No patriot except to the slave cause
Thanks for showing your ignorance (again):
en.wikipedia.org
Little known as he was to the white inhabitants of Lexington, Jackson was known by many of the
African Americans in town, both slaves and free blacks.[
citation needed] In 1855, he organized Sunday School classes for blacks at the Presbyterian Church. His second wife,
Mary Anna Jackson, taught with Jackson, as "he preferred that my labors should be given to the colored children, believing that it was more important and useful to put the strong hand of the Gospel under the ignorant African race, to lift them up".
[28] The pastor, Dr. William Spottswood White, described the relationship between Jackson and his Sunday afternoon students: "In their religious instruction he succeeded wonderfully. His discipline was systematic and firm, but very kind. ... His servants reverenced and loved him, as they would have done a brother or father. ... He was emphatically the black man's friend." He addressed his students by name and they, in turn, referred to him affectionately as "Marse Major".
[29]
Jackson owned six slaves in the late 1850s. Three (Hetty, Cyrus, and George, a mother and two teenage sons) were received as part of the dowry at his marriage to Mary Anna Jackson.
[30] Another slave, Albert, requested that Jackson purchase him and allow him to work for his freedom; he was employed as a waiter in one of the Lexington hotels and Jackson rented him to VMI. Amy also requested that Jackson purchase her from a public slave auction and she served the family as a cook and housekeeper. The sixth, Emma, was a four-year-old orphan with a
learning disability, accepted by Jackson from an aged widow and presented to his second wife, Mary Anna, as a welcome-home gift.
[31] After Jackson was shot at Chancellorsville, a slave "Jim Lewis, had stayed with Jackson in the small house as he lay dying".
[32] Mary Anna Jackson, in her 1895 memoir, said, "our servants ... without the firm guidance and restraint of their master, the excitement of the times proved so demoralizing to them that he deemed it best for me to provide them with good homes among the permanent residents".
[33] James Robertson wrote about Jackson's view on slavery:
Jackson neither apologized for nor spoke in favor of the practice of slavery. He probably opposed the institution. Yet in his mind the Creator had sanctioned slavery, and man had no moral right to challenge its existence. The
good Christian slaveholder was one who treated his servants fairly and humanely at all times.
[34]
And you can spare me the comparison to modern days.
He was a better human being than you'll ever be.
