Jalane Schmidt, a local activist and University of Virginia professor, said the forces that kept the statues standing for decades are still at work. “Those values that kept it there are still here; they’re still operative,” she said after the Jackson statue departed Court Square. “So we’ve got a lot of work to do. We can’t just pat ourselves on the back and say, ‘Oh good, we did it; we undid racism. There’s a lot of work to do, and this is just a more visible symbol of it, but the institutional systemic nature with the zoning codes” goes on. That’s why she’s going to continue to share the hist...