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Yonnie3

(18,121 posts)
Tue Jul 13, 2021, 10:44 AM Jul 2021

#GoodTrouble in Richmond

I just posted about a worker wearing a #GoodTrouble shirt in Charlottesville. It turns out he is the owner/boss.

via NBC News

Black contractor braves threats in removing Richmond statues
“I feel a great deal of conviction in what we did and how it was done,” lead contractor Devon Henry said

By The Associated Press
Oct. 26, 2020, 2:03 PM EDT

RICHMOND, Va. — Devon Henry paced in nervous anticipation, because this was a project like nothing he’d ever done. He wore the usual hard hat — and a bulletproof vest.

An accomplished Black businessman, Henry took on a job the city says others were unwilling to do: lead contractor for the now-completed removal of 14 pieces of Confederate statuary that dotted Virginia’s capital city. There was angry opposition, and fear for the safety of all involved.

But when a crane finally plucked the equestrian statue of Gen. Stonewall Jackson off the enormous pedestal where it had towered over this former capital of the Confederacy for more than a century, church bells chimed, thunder clapped and the crowd erupted in cheers.

Henry’s brother grabbed him, and they jumped up and down. He saw others crying in the pouring rain.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-contractor-braves-threats-removing-richmond-statues-n1244772
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#GoodTrouble in Richmond (Original Post) Yonnie3 Jul 2021 OP
Great article. Great guy. underpants Jul 2021 #1

underpants

(186,729 posts)
1. Great article. Great guy.
Tue Jul 13, 2021, 10:57 AM
Jul 2021

I do remember that the crew was from Connecticut and that the contractor had donated to Stoney. Well as long as the procurement people followed the rules I don’t see a problem.

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