On June 4th 2020, Governor Northam of Virginia announced that the Robert E Lee Monument would be removed after 130 years. Since the statue is located on Monument Avenue and is one of six statues I believe that it should not only be removed but replaced by a statue of the Lovings. In case you don’t know the Lovings were an interracial couple who, in the state of Virginia were not allowed to legally marry. They were arrested and banned from Virginia until they sought legal help from the ACLU and almost 10 years after their arrest the Supreme Court ruled that the Virginia state law banning interracial marriage was unconstitutional, thereby legalizing the right to marry outside of your race in the whole of the US. I believe the Lovings deserve this immortalization because they shed no blood and did not seek any type of fame, they simply changed the world through the act of peacefully loving one another.  The Lovings did not even attend their Supreme Court hearings and instead Richard Loving only asked that his lawyer convey this message to the court, “Mr. Cohen, tell the court I love my wife, and it is just unfair that I can’t live with her in Virginia.” I can think of no other person, or people who deserve our admiration and appreciation more than the people who simply changed the world with love.