Sunday, December 15, 2019

Rumors of War (a non-racist statue in Richmond VA)

This new statue at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, mimics a civil war military statue of JEB Stuart, a friend of Robert E. Lee and leader of the slavers' cavalry during the American civil war. In place of General Stuart, we see a native American riding his prancing horse, his dancing horse: providing a challenge to the narrative of Richmond's white supremacist confederate statues, while honoring Sculpture as an Art, and honoring the original inhabitants of America, those peaceful tribal ecologists who were largely exterminated by the likes of President Andrew Jackson, a hero of the current occupant of the White House. Well done the VMFA.

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