re: #257 Sir John Barron

Wow, a unanimous vote. And applause.

It was fitting.

There is a lot to the history of Lexington Kentucky that is important, and last nights unanimous vote adds to the significance. Mary Todd Lincolns family home is downtown. Less than half a mile away is the Old Courthouse, where the statues stand. Henry Clay’s Law office is right down the street. Aaron Burr was arrested the next block over. On the same city block of the Old Courthouse is a Bar/Restaurant by the name of Cheapside. Many young people come there to have a good time, without realizing that the Bar is built on the site of one of the largest Slave Auction blocks in American history.(I think more slave were bought/sold there than any place west of the Appalachias). Seated up front for the Council meeting last night were the members of “Take Back Cheapside” an organization that fights the sanitization of history, and wants to bring back the true nature of what happened to slaves in our city. We have made great strides, and last nights vote- unanimous; and capped with the leadership of an Openly Gay man as Mayor.