Friday, August 9, 2019
Campus Reform: Petition demands removal of UVA Lewis and Clark Expedition statue - "monument to genocide" - "depicts a white man on a horse dressed for war"
Aimed at UVA President James Ryan, the petition entitled "Remove Monument to Genocide that Welcomes People to UVA," as reported by Newsweek, calls for UVA to scrap a statue of George Rogers Clark, who helped pave the way for the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the brother of William Clark. The petition has received 450 total signatures, just 50 signatures shy of its final goal, at publication time. ...
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13537