Cody Nelson“What #Minnesota lacks in confederate monuments, we happily make up in kitsch,” Twitter user Lisa Baumert wrote to us earlier today.
Given the recent discussions on removing controversial or offensive statues across the U.S., we wanted to ask what statues people actually like here in Minnesota. We posed the question to Twitter, and many readers responded. Here are some of your favorite Minnesota monuments:
These bovine. #umnproud https://t.co/f9JSNY0WKk pic.twitter.com/NItnEbe9DM
— Melissa Hansen (@ThatGirlMissy) August 17, 2017
— Lisa Baumert (@lisasuebaumert) August 17, 2017
this is the right answer pic.twitter.com/Vd1l7Ntclc
— Auhsoj Nosredna (@joshnorthsouth) August 17, 2017
Big Ole in Alexandria! pic.twitter.com/ss45oufu4p
— IllustrusE (@theillustriousE) August 17, 2017
— #resist (@SarahAlexB) August 17, 2017
— #resist (@SarahAlexB) August 17, 2017
— Seth Kaplan (@Seth_Kaplan) August 17, 2017
Here’s one more answer, for good measure:
Any anti racist ones
— cāra luebke (@IAMcarabou) August 17, 2017
