Reply #2: You must have missed the controversy over the Arthur Ashe monument

[underpants]

on *GASP* Monument avenue. See this is oooooold Richmond stuff. Monument avenue has statues of J.E.B. Stuart, Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis, and Maury (inventor of sonar) from east to west. Three blocks west of the Maury statue they put up the Ashe monument even though Ashe washed his hands of this town as soon as possible. His father did maintenance on the city tennis courts but Ashe was not allowed to play on them.

The statue itself was yet again a screw up by the infamous Richmond city council (that is a whole thread on its own). The monument that is up was supposed to be one of several in a competition and it depicts Ashe holding a tennis racket in one hand and a book in another with a group of children kneeling in front of him. If you are in the right hand lane on Monument avenue at the stoplight as Roseneath (I live in this area) it almost looks like Ashe is about to hit one of the kids with the racket. Like I said they whole thing was a screw up by city council and was the center of a huge controversy and still is really.