... the finalists for whom should be chosen to represent Florida in the national statuary hall of the Capitol building now that General Kirby (he of the losing side of the Civil War) is being replaced to avoid slavery and other racist bad juju.
NOT among the finalists -- Tim Tebow. (You young kids can google him ... he used to play football and is kind of known for insisting that God was watching *his* games every week.) There's a whole list of other NOs, including the intangible of Jeb Bush's political career, Florida's own prolific in his craft Ted Bundy, Little Marco's Tiny [body part], the generic Florida Man and Statuey McStatueface (my favorite). NOTE: I am not trying to be clever. Those were on the list. Seriously. It's Florida after all. Some were taken off because the rules were that you had to be dead for ten years, and others because they weren't exactly offered up in good faith (although that Tebow fellow scored high in the public votes).
Instead, the top three, in reverse order from the number of votes they got, are an Everglades activist, the founder of Publix, and the woman featured in the image accompanying this post: Mary McLeod Bethune. If this leader in the civil rights movement who had a passion for education becomes the one the Florida government chooses "sometime" (the law requiring that the statue be replaced was conveniently passed without any deadline), she would be only the 10th woman out of 100 (each state has two statues) and she would be the FIRST African-American.
So yeah, maybe it's time?!
COULD SHE, COULD SHE?:
http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2016-07-01/story/tia-mitchell-florida-track-become-first-state-depict-african-american
THE LIST OF NOs:
http://floridapolitics.com/archives/214382-ineligible-list-new-statue
YOU CAN SEARCH THE LIST FOR YOUR STATE'S CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE HALL:
https://www.aoc.gov/the-national-statuary-hall-collection
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