Time. It is time. It is time to put an end to the embrace thend fully righteous cause. It is time to replace the racist symbols of oppression and inequality, symbols that have literally dominated our landscape with symbols that represent the best in all of us. In all of our people. Ones that reflect the diverse, inclusive, equitable city we are today. And we continue to strive to be. It is time to heal, ladies and gentlemen. Richmond is the longer the capital of the confederacy. [applause] [applause] time to show our community how much level we have here. It is time that we embrace our diversity. It is time that we remove barriers that hinder the dreams of black children in our community. And in the 100 plus years since these monuments were erected, we have known better. We knew better during jim crow. We knew better during the resistance. Before theter long dying pleas of young black and like torchwood. We have two pandemics in this country. Covid19 and racism. Old. S six months the o
Check in with jess and check your forecast. As we head into our memorial day weekend temperatures are going to start cooling down fast for now. Were still sitting in the 50s along our coast 80s off into our inland areas. But around the corner, were going to all be sitting in the 50s and 60s. By saturday with a nice little warm up into sunday and then just in time for memorial day on monday. Now theres lots of events happening this weekend and luckily the weather is dry, just like today. Were expecting 70s in the forecast today near san jose, with the blue skies above us, were going to continue to see beautiful mild weather today and tomorrow but notice how fast temperatures really dip. We have 80s today 70s tomorrow, suddenly were talking about 60s into our saturday forecast for some of our east inland areas. And then we start to average out as we head into early next week with upper 70s around the corner, but lets head over to the bay shoreline areas like oakland or actually going to
But i am mixed on this really. Host im leaving it there so we can hear from one reporter who is covering this debate in richmond, virginia. Us via skype this morning from that area. Virginia statehouse reporter. Through what very monumenthave avenue. Its a big tourist attraction in your area. And what is the debate right now . Thank you so much for having me this morning i really think its important to start icing that this conversation that richmond is having is not a new one. Virginia does a wonderful job of preserving its history, respecting its history and one oldlook at archives and newspaper articles and see that people in richmond just as soon as the lead monument was erected in 1890, John Mitchell jr. Who was the editor of the Richmond Planet editorialized that people were going to be debating about the legacy of treason and blood. Have always been met with resistance and debate and controversy. Were just having a contemporary sort of iteration here in richmond. There are folks
Lester spence was asked about the best approach. Heres what he had to say. The approach the city has taken before was actually have monuments toto the put them in context. They were just put up. Before the statue was taken down there was a plaque next to it basically saying that it was that the statue was erected as part of a lost cause project voted to the confederacy and White Supremacy. That was ok. Gone, i thinkare what i would like to see is the base maintained. For the statues themselves are removed but the bases stay there in order to reflect on the one hand the fact that there was a political project dedicated to White Supremacy that had a long history that is deeply tied with the creation of the nation. And then that there was another political project created in order to remove them. I think thats actually the best that was the best approach in this circumstance. Other potential approaches. Maybe leaving taking pieces of the statues. Butbe maintaining them erecting another st
Lester spence was asked about the best approach. Heres what he had to say. The approach the city has taken before was actually have monuments toto the put them in context. They were just put up. Before the statue was taken down there was a plaque next to it basically saying that it was that the statue was erected as part of a lost cause project voted to the confederacy and White Supremacy. That was ok. Gone, i thinkare what i would like to see is the base maintained. For the statues themselves are removed but the bases stay there in order to reflect on the one hand the fact that there was a political project dedicated to White Supremacy that had a long history that is deeply tied with the creation of the nation. And then that there was another political project created in order to remove them. I think thats actually the best that was the best approach in this circumstance. Other potential approaches. Maybe leaving taking pieces of the statues. Butbe maintaining them erecting another st