We are so back.
On July 25th, the House officially approved the date for the unveiling ceremony of the new Johnny Cash statue on Capitol Hill. The event will take place next month, on September 24th at 11a.m., with plans for the man in black’s family to also be in attendance.
As previously announced, Cash will be replacing lawyer and former Arkansas Governor, James Paul Clarke, after a bill to replace the “white-supremacist” was passed back in 2019. Clarke’s statue has been on Capitol Hill for more than 100 years, but with calls to replace the politician’s face (even from his own great-grandson, Democrat state senator Clarke Tucker), amplifying in today’s political climate, the “Folsom Prison Blues” singer is up next from the state of Arkansas.
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— Nicholas Wu (@nicholaswu12) August 1, 2024
A statue of Uriah M. Rose, an attorney and former president of the Arkansas Bar Association, will also be replaced by Daisy Bates, a civil rights activist who played a key role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957.
While the removal of statues has caused division amongst Americans for years now, we can all agree that Johnny Cash being honored in the nations capitol is a good thing.