What is Kentucky culture? Is it western? We began as the New West, settled by the offspring of eastern colonial states. Our later generations settled the newer west, named the Old West. Is it southern? It is
Charlottesville takes down two more statues, deemed offensive to Native Americans, in weekend of removals Teo Armus, Hannah Natanson CHARLOTTESVILLE It was a big weekend for statue removals in this university town where they ve become a flash point in recent years. Shortly after the city carted away a monument to Confederate general Stonewall Jackson and a statue of Robert E. Lee that triggered a deadly weekend of violence in 2017, workers carried off two more statues that critics said depicted Native Americans in a racist and disparaging manner. One statue, which sat in a grassy park on the University of Virginia campus, showed Revolutionary War general George Rogers Clark riding a horse toward three unarmed Native Americans as two frontiersmen waited behind him, one of them in the act of raising his rifle. The pedestal declared in engraved letters, “CONQUEROR OF THE NORTHWEST,” a reference to his battle prowess against the British.
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Police look on as the statue of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and Sacagawea is removed from Charlottesville, Virginia on July 10, 2021. AFP pic
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, July 11 The southern US city of Charlottesville yesterday took down controversial statues including two honouring Civil War pro-slavery generals which had become the focus of protests.
The statues of generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson are among hundreds of Confederate monuments in the United States now widely considered symbols of racism, even if their supporters argue they are a historical legacy.