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fusion260 OP t1_ixeta7a wrote

Reply to comment by TheCheeseDevil in Effort seeks to stop Richmond’s plans for last Confederate statue by fusion260

I think it has more to do with the fact that they specifically don’t want it going to the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia.

Instead, they want the remains to go elsewhere and to have Richmond pay for the transportation costs to their desired destination.

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TheCheeseDevil t1_ixf1f4n wrote

That makes a lot of sense, you're right! The whole situation is a little bizarre to me.

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Charlesinrichmond t1_ixfpz2v wrote

I'm not per se on their side but why not just say hey, okay you can have the body and the statue to get it out of here. It would be cheaper than the rest of the court cases it seems like a silly thing to fight over

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fusion260 OP t1_ixfrhbr wrote

Because they apparently want the body and the monument moved to a venue of their choosing for free. Even if the city agreed, it’s all-but-guaranteed that both would get sued by some other party that doesn’t believe the public should be paying for the third relocation of someone’s remains after the city paid to maintain it for all these years.

That’s what’s so insidious about our legal system… seemingly unlimited rounds of lawsuits between unlimited parties can delay things indefinitely until someone decides they’re just going to do it whether it’s legal or not.

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gamerthrowaway_ t1_ixhzl92 wrote

> Because they apparently want the body and the monument moved to a venue of their choosing for free.

So it's sort of interesting to me, graves have been moved in the past. One of the largest being when San Francisco passed a "no burials inside City limits" ordinances and then evicted most of their existing cemeteries to south of town in Colma to free up City land for building stuff on. IIRC, the University of San Francisco sits on top of a portion of that land now.

They said they would disinter them, transport them, and rebury them, but you had to cough up $10 (a few hundred in today's dollars). If you didn't pay, the mass grave'd that. The remains didn't get to stick around.

It's also why there are only like 2 or 3 cemeteries now; a tiny one at an old church, and the one at the fort (which is federal land). When I first heard that, I wondered what it would take for RVA to go that route and move Calvary and Hollywood.

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Charlesinrichmond t1_ixfyn5o wrote

easy enough to indemnify out of it though, and I really doubt anyone would care once the descendants have it and the city is rid of it

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