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Description: | The 8 Most Horribly Insulting Attempts to Honor the Dead In 1996, Richmond, Virginia, designed a life sized statue for a hometown hero, African American tennis legend and civil rights pioneer Arthur Ashe. Everything was ready to go the statue was in place on Monument Avenue in downtown Richmond, the official groundbreaking was set for what would've been Ashe's 52nd birthday, and nearly everyone in the entire city was really pissed off about it. "Who wants a copy of the Constitution?" You see, Monument Avenue is also home to one of the most elaborate collections of Confederate war memorials in the entire nation. And even though a sitcom called Arthur Ashe: Confederate Tennis Superstar sounds zanily fish out of water, both modern supporters of the rebel cause and the portion of Richmond that doesn't consist of gravy sweating yokels agreed that this was maybe the last place in the world this statue should go. In the end, that didn't stop the city council from pushing the in |