Stonewall Jackson
Dear Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney and members of the Monument Avenue Commission,
While we do not purport to speak for all of Stonewall’s kin, our sense of justice leads us to believe that removing the Stonewall statue and other monuments should be part of a larger project of actively mending the racial disparities that hundreds of years of white supremacy have wrought. We hope other descendants of Confederate generals will stand with us.
As cities all over the South are realizing now, we are not in need of added context. We are in need of a new context –one in which the statues have been taken down.
Respectfully,
William Jackson Christian Warren Edmund Christian Great-great-grandsons of Thomas Jonathan ‘Stonewall’ Jackson 16 August 2017
