Lee statue evokes deep feelings (VA)
Lisa Provence
8/03/16 at 6:59 AM
... Mary Carey, 70, ... recalled going as a child to the McIntire Library, which borders Lee Park, and “having to sit on the edge while the white kids ran all around.” Carey said .. she could live with the statue ... “I’ve already been humiliated by it when I was a little girl” ...
Several speakers were dismayed that the slave auction in Court Square was only commemorated by a small plaque on the ground ...
... Dale McDonald compared Lee to Benedict Arnold. “He was a traitor to his country,” he said ...
Uriah Fields, who helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, agreed and said he would like to posthumously put Lee on trial ...
http://www.c-ville.com/not-black-white-lee-statue-evokes-deep-feelings-racial-history/#.V6KrBiMrKL8
