re: #152 wheat-dogg

Here’s some details about the protests in Louisville about a Confederate soldier statue in Cherokee Triangle, one of the oldest (and wealthiest) sections of Louisville. (Beware of video autoplay).

courier-journal.com

My friends in the neighborhood there reported on Facebook that someone had defaced the statue with red paint. Not sure if that happened before or after the protest linked here.

The soldier in question served in the Confederate Army, then in the Union Army, and was instrumental in developing Louisville’s parks system (designed by the same guy who did New York’s Central Park). So, there some reluctance by people in Cherokee Triangle and the Highlands to remove his statue, which is near one entrance to Cherokee Park.

What uniform is he wearing now? Tells the story.