You’re mistaken that it’s just for the black community. It should be looked at as a correction for the city of Richmond as a whole. In that sense, it’s for the good of the entire community to project that we’re moving away from celebrating the evils of the past or - just as bad - letting these monuments hang around simply because “they’ve always been there” or “what does removing them change?”

Sometimes when you fuck up, it costs money just to get back to zero.