We Just Can't Have Nice Things, Can We

I thought this article would be an innocent piece of civic boosterism. I was dreadfully mistaken.

Should Grand Rapids have an Al Green statue?

It's as if he objects to erecting statues the average person would actually recognize. Rosa Parks and Al Green are famous, deservedly so. Downtown also has statues of Lucius Lyon and Arthur Vandenberg, but few people in Grand Rapids could tell you what they did to merit attention. I still can't.

Also, being from Arkansas does not make you "african."