Posted on 08/20/2017 6:55:11 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Duke University removed a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from the entrance of a chapel on the Durham, North Carolina, campus, officials said on Saturday, days after it was vandalized.
The decision to take down the statue followed discussions among students, faculty, staff and alumni about maintaining safety on campus, university President Vincent E. Price said in a statement.
"I took this course of action to protect Duke Chapel, to ensure the vital safety of students and community members who worship there, and above all to express the deep and abiding values of our university," Price said.
The prestigious university will preserve the statue of Lee, who led Confederate forces in the American Civil War of 1861-1865, and use it as an educational tool so that students can study "Duke's complex past," Price added.
The Confederacy, comprised of 11 Southern states, broke from the Union largely to preserve the institution of slavery.
Symbols of the Confederacy have come into focus since last weekend, when white nationalists, angered at the planned removal of a statue of Lee from a park in Charlottesville, Virginia, engaged in violent protests where a counter-protester was killed.
It's not about statues. It's about bending the knee. Submission. The Left lost an election they believed their hearts they should have won. In fact, they believe they were robbed of their rightful victory. Now they're finding other ways to force their will on us.
Statues of Confederate soldiers are low hanging fruit. There's few people who will stand shoulder to shoulder next to Richard Spencer's and David Duke's Nazi-Klan retards to defend them.
Most importantly, the Left is using the monument issue to build a strategy. After the statues are gone and they've compiled a list of lessons learned, the Left will move on to bigger and better things. Then we'll start seeing websites disappear. That's what's coming next.
It’s the frog in the hot water syndrome.
We had better decide when we will put a stop to it or we’ll all find ourselves in gulags.
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