Ashe is the only Black man to win Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the Australian Open. Throughout his career and afterward, Ashe fought for racial equality and civil rights, notably the movement to end apartheid in South Africa. He died in 1993.
The statue of Ashe was one of six on Monument Avenue in Richmond. The other five monuments commemorated the Confederacy, including Robert E. Lee, Thomas"Stonewall" Jackson, Jefferson Davis, J.E.B. Stuart and Matthew Fontaine Maury. Protestors toppled the Davis statue last week. After days of protests over racial inequality and police brutality, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam ordered the Lee statue removed"as soon as possible" on June 3. Mayor Levar Stoney later said he would propose for the removal of the four other Confederate statues.
Shortly after the"WLM" tagging,"BLM" and"Black Lives Matter" was written with red spray paint over it, reports and images from the scene showed.
Racial prejudice. Not a good thing
How about No Lives Matter then you'll be closer to the truth.
Ah that was totally not necessary
Haha
But, why the man who paint WLM should be punished. why can people paint BLM, but not WLM or yellow lives matter? Didn't all lives lives matter?
YIKES
A Jussie Smollett made up crime
Kevin10TV Just wrong
Despicable!
Everyone matter
Tell the Truth, blm was painted 1st.
It’s the newest trend.
Good...turn around is fair play
That’s truly sad.
I find this to be false. I’m not saying this because I’m white, I’m saying this because I bet a lot of you don’t know who this is.
I don't agree with the defacing but hey if blm can do it in broad daylight and have no charges, anyone should be able to do it.
I would guess they have video of that!!
People suck
It’s a free for all I guess. This country has lost their last strand of common sense
Well here we go again.
So stuuuuuupid..
Vandalism
Whites who are bothered by BlackLivesMattters’ movement, are racists. It’s as simple as that. Whites have not been oppressed for centuries like blacks and will never be. Black people behind the BLM movement have never said that white lives (or any other race) matter less.
White folk are getting tired of the fake political correctness madness. Surprised it not getting worst. Hope not.
Antifa did it, right?
In the South? No. (Sarcasm) Listen. Did they spray paint anything correctly? Racists usually have an issue with spelling.
I hope they leave it like that as a monument to display how ignorant racists are.
White people this doesn’t help you any!
Who wants to tell him.
WhitesLivesMatter.👊
It's only the beginning
Poor triggered snowflake GOP repugnacons.
bearsweetness We’ve seen this before 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That’s sad and just shows complete ignorance!
By definition, the vandals of this statue are profoundly stupid.
Good!
Gonna kill who ever wrote that shit down.
The mob tears down statues,you can't complain when the mob tears down yours
So I’m confused usatoday ...what’s the point?...it’s ok to spray paint things with BLM and not WLM? White Lives Matter is bad but not Black Lives Matter? Or is all vandalism bad and All Lives Matter?
All Lives Matter but Black Lives Matter Too, and that is what I would like it to be, no one should feel excluded because of this movement
Atlanta police refusing to report for work
B
WTF
I like how the people that obstinately cry out “we’re not racist” continuously show that they are indeed racist.
Every life matters
Mongo think bronze statue matter too
They don’t know who he is
Maybe Virginia’s governor, Ralph Northam, did it. He has a history of racism & lives in Richmond.
Here in KC a memorial to lynching was vandalized. Don't let up on these racists. Doxx them all. Ruin them all. No quarter for racists.
Good
The white supremacist terrorist group is at it! Can we kick them in the balls so they won't reproduce!
If white lives matter is anti black, then what is black lives matter? 🤔🤔
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