Judge Them By the Standards of Their Time, Not Today's

January 29, 2020

**  Virginia group:  Confederate statues should stay, with changes.  (A Virginia Beach commission recommends historical context by it and a statue honoring black heritage.)

**  Nathan Bedford Forrest bust resolution hearing brings out defense of Confederate general.  (Resolution to remove it introduced by a black legislator.  SCV defending it.  One said, "An individual must be judged by the standards  on the times in which they live-- not  the standards of today."  Very true observation.)

**  Richmond City Council okays procedure for a new statue on Monument Avenue honoring USCT.  But also wants to remove the one of Jefferson Davis and put historical context by other Confederate statues.

--Old Secesh