Nominations Needed for West Lawn Statue

Press release from Alachua County
Alachua County is soliciting nominations for names of prominent, deceased, African American Alachua County citizens to be the basis for a “Call to Artist” for a statue erected on the West Lawn of the County Administration Building (12 S.E. 1st Street, Gainesville).
The statue will be placed on an existing 12′ x 12′ concrete slab. The winning submittal would be the inspiration for a Call to Artist for an artist to fabricate and install the statue. Those who submit ideas are excluded from applying for the Call to Artist to fabricate and install the art.
One-page submittals should include a photo of the nominated individual and up to a 100-word synopsis of why they should be honored. Nominations must be submitted online by midnight, Friday, August 27, 2021.
Submitted nominations will be shortlisted to the top three by the Alachua County Community Remembrance Project Committee and forwarded to the Alachua County Historical Commission for vetting. They will then be sent to the County Commission for final selection.
Frederick Douglas, Clarence Thomas, MLK
Are they going to do a call of artist thing for a great
White county American too? I nominate Hanrahan
For the renewable energy and biomass plant. Oh, they have to be deceased…
How much taxpayer money are they going to spend on
This equity statue?
They should bring back “old joe” and Spend the money saved on fixing the roads…
So here we are. This assbackwards liberal community who wants and claims to be inclusive is now going to base a statue not on the merits of a person but the color of their skin. HYPOCRISY at it’s finest! What happened to the giant blow horn?
Given recent happenings in Gainesville, maybe they should put a statue of a black American on the west lawn and someone else on the west side of Main St shooting at each other.
Sorry forgot the name part…”Django gets Tupac.”
Both are famous, both African American.
How about a George Floyd Statue, Or a car with
Some black youths doing a “drive by’” to memorialize the
Black Lives Matter movement…and to memorialize
This african history in GNV and how this was the impetus
For the social equity movement in GNV..they first have
To catch the gangbangers to get their likeness. A 3D
Printer can probably make the mold from their mugshots.