Statue debate provokes fiery defense of Confederacy in Virginia’s Mathews County
“But I detest some people’s demeanor and ways,” he said, going on to label the NAACP a “racist organization” and condemn Black Lives Matter for trying to destroy cities. Some things need to change in this country, he said — just not in Mathews County.
Mathews has long been a secluded community of farmers and watermen — it’s not on the way to anyplace else, except by boat, its marshes and creeks prominent along the Chesapeake Bay above Gloucester and below the Rappahannock River.The county of about 8,600 residents is 8 percent Black, and a referendum last year on the Confederate statue found 80 percent of voters in favor of leaving it in place.
“I hate it that we’re here having this discussion tonight. I know many people I like and respect will not like what I say,” said Christine Ulrich. The statue honors the “bravery and self-sacrifice of individual people” who died in the Civil War, she said. But giving it to the SCV would allow them “to fly the flag of a government and a way of life defined and made possible by slavery.”
In researching the monument’s ownership history, they said, they discovered in the records of the State Corporation Commission that local resident Dee Russell recently registered the name “the Mathews Monument Association.” That was the name of the original group that erected the statue a century ago, long since disbanded.
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