So your front yard is Capitol Square. And my youngest daughter at that point was in second grade and she and my wife Lisa were walking around Capitol Square. And at that point In 2002, there were a lot of statues on Capitol Square, every one of them of a dead white man and most of them a dead Confederate white man. So my daughter, who had just gotten, you know, a civil rights lesson at school, says, you know, where's Rosa Parks? Lisa, being smart enough, said, well, Rosa Parks not from Virginia. (00:58–01:19)
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Asserts that in 2002, Capitol Square had statues only of dead white men, mostly Confederate.
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