Better late than never Richmond

[Drip]

The Times-Dispatch took a bold step that many others papers may soon follow.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003994843

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Well that changes everything.

 

[imjustagirl]

Yeah. It's great they waited 50 years to say it though. Awesome, RT-D.

 

[Riddick]

that's just awesome.

 

[Mystery Meat II]

Someone is NOT amused

 

[Drip]

Someone is NOT amused

And if I'm not mistaken, a statue of a man on a horse with the tail down means that he died in battle.

 

[Songbird]

According to the AP story we ran:

Former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, who in 1989 became the nation's first black elected governor, said in a telephone interview that he found the editorial wanting.
"Some would say better late than never," Wilder said. "Others would say why say anything at all if it's not heartfelt."
He said the editorial is "an admission they were wrong, and I don't think anyone questions that," but he said the newspaper did not fully own up to its role in supporting the movement and acknowledge the harm it caused.

 

[imjustagirl]

Good ol' Wilder.

 

[Mystery Meat II]

According to the AP story we ran:

Former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, who in 1989 became the nation's first black elected governor, said in a telephone interview that he found the editorial wanting.
"Some would say better late than never," Wilder said. "Others would say why say anything at all if it's not heartfelt."
He said the editorial is "an admission they were wrong, and I don't think anyone questions that," but he said the newspaper did not fully own up to its role in supporting the movement and acknowledge the harm it caused.

It's been 50 years. I don't think anyone who was in the News-Leader or Times-Dispatch newsrooms then are there now (though James Kilpatrick is still kicking at the senseless age of 193). Nobody there's going to have emotional ownership of the story because they didn't do anything to advocate Massive Resistance, they just happen to work at a paper that did 50-some years ago. So I'm not sure what Wilder's looking for -- other than a do-over of his disastrous run as Richmond mayor earlier this decade.

 

[bwright]

And if I'm not mistaken, a statue of a man on a horse with the tail down means that he died in battle.
[/quote]

Interesting. I'd heard they put the horse's legs int the air when you die in battle .
That may be british, though.

 

[imjustagirl]

Apparently no one's right. I always thought one hoof up was injured, two hooves up was killed, which is what's first in this story. But that changes depending on the source.

http://ask.yahoo.com/20010112.html

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

The Lexington Herald-Leader did it five years ago:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28209-2004Jul4.html

A Richmond story. The first time I brought my wife there, I turned onto Monument Avenue and told her that all the statues were of Confederate generals. She said, "Yeah? That one is holding a tennis racket." Arthur Ashe. I hadn't known about his statue.