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(112,226 posts) Sat Dec 16, 2017, 09:40 AM Dec 2017

Virginia's women's monument will include a new Confederate statue to 'the angel of the Lost Cause'

As Virginia’s next governor, Ralph Northam will take part in the 2019 dedication of the Virginia Women’s Monument on Capitol Square, which is to include a statue of a Confederate captain.

Sally Louisa Tompkins, a Richmond hospital administrator renowned for her facility’s low mortality rate, was one of 12 women from 400 years of Virginia history chosen in 2013 for bronze statues as part of the monument.

Northam, like members of the Virginia Women’s Monument Commission interviewed for this story, appears to see a distinction between Tompkins and other Confederate officers.

“The governor-elect recognizes that the women who were selected for this monument contributed to Virginia at different times in our history and in different ways,” said Ofirah Yheskel, Northam’s press secretary.

Read more: http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/virginia-s-women-s-monument-will-include-a-new-confederate/article_4cf6a6fa-7fa2-5725-b533-0492ad52aabd.html

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Sat Dec 16, 2017, 09:59 AM

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I've eaten there many a late night.

Interesting. I'd never heard her story and in Richmond that's rare - we love us some History here and the place is littered with second place trophies. Wouldn't use a Yankee stamp or cross the Mason-Dixon Line huh?

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Chelsea Higgs Wise, assistant secretary of the Richmond Branch NAACP, who’s been following the planning for the women’s monument, thinks it’s inappropriate to include a statue of Tompkins.

“We’re not honoring losers anymore. And I understand that she has a great record as a medical professional, but they still lost,” she said.

“At the end of the day, if you were fighting for the Confederacy you were fighting for black people to be kept as slaves.”

“How can we honor slaves and people that were fighting to keep people as slaves right beside them?”

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