Missy in Stone?

Posted on August 25, 2017

Petition calls for Missy Elliott statue to replace Confederate monument in Virginia

Fox News

A petition to have a statue of rapper Missy Elliott replace a Confederate monument in Virgina has garnered more than 27,000 signatures in less than a week.

The Change.org petition, started by Nathan Coflin, calls for replacing a Confederate monument in Portsmouth, near the intersection of Court and High Streets, saying Elliott is the “true Portsmouth native hero” whose statue deserves to be in its place.

“Who better to encapsulate the culture and spirit of the city enshrined in a new monument than Grammy Award-winning rapper, dancer, and record producer Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott?” the petition stated.

 The Grammy Award-winning rapper was born in Portsmouth in 1971…

“Together we can put white supremacy down, flip it and reverse it,” the petition said.

Elliott responded to news of the petition on Twitter last week, saying: “I don’t know what to say just to see this warms my heart and it’s so humbling to me.”

For more go to: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/22/petition-calls-for-missy-elliott-statue-to-replace-confederate-monument-in-virginia.html

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