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POLL: What do you think should happen to Richmond's Confederate statues on Monument Avenue?
The Richmond Times-Dispatch ^ | August 17, 2017 | RTD

Posted on 08/25/2017 3:05:26 PM PDT by 103198

Leaders across the country have removed or accelerated plans to remove statues to the Confederacy in the wake of violence and death at a white nationalists rally in Charlottesville. What do you think should happen in Richmond?

Remove them and put them in museums

Keep them and add context

Nothing. They're fine as is

Remove them

(Excerpt) Read more at richmond.com ...


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To: 103198

Thanks! This descendant of a Confederate cavalry officer (who did not believe in slavery but took up arms because his country had been invaded) has now voted.


21 posted on 08/25/2017 3:36:34 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: 103198; Chode

Just Voted.

Looks to be in the lead at 7000.


22 posted on 08/25/2017 3:36:40 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Progress- the opposite of congress)
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To: Doogle
"nothing" is leading.

We need more of them, not less. We should remember and respect our history.

23 posted on 08/25/2017 3:37:43 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: JBW1949

I have Ani Yun Wiya (Cherokee) heritage...

The name of your state offends me...Change it....


You probably know the Cherokee Nation sided with the Confederacy and fought against the North.


24 posted on 08/25/2017 3:38:59 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: kaehurowing

Of course...Stand Watie was a Confederate General...


25 posted on 08/25/2017 3:44:25 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: apocalypto

We should remember and respect our history.

....the libs respect nothing,screw up everything and blame others...


26 posted on 08/25/2017 3:45:05 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: 103198

I think they should be fully restored, left where they are, and an armed honor guard placed around them 24/7.


27 posted on 08/25/2017 3:46:43 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: 103198

Another vote for “Nothing, they’re fine as is”.


28 posted on 08/25/2017 3:49:35 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

What the majority wants will have no impact I’m afraid. These statues tend to be in large population centers and the virtue signaling Rat a-holes tend to run them so there you go.


29 posted on 08/25/2017 3:53:02 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: 103198

I think they should be given to the LGBTQQIP2SAA community.


30 posted on 08/25/2017 3:57:28 PM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: ealgeone

....They’re not gonna like the results thus far....

They don’t give a damn about the results. There’s a political agenda at work that is manipulating people and erasing history. Democrats are getting a victory and they will be pushing this as far as they can.


31 posted on 08/25/2017 4:00:11 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: kaehurowing

Until his recent retirement, the director of the Jefferson Davis Monument (at his birthplace in Kentucky) was a black man, a former Marine and Berkeley grad, who was a great admirer of Jefferson Davis...and proud of his own (white) ancestor who had been a Confederate officer.


32 posted on 08/25/2017 4:10:30 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: 103198

Put a couple of snipers on Monument Ave to protect them.


33 posted on 08/25/2017 4:11:43 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: 103198

I’ve got 5 acres and would be happy to have a few delivered!


34 posted on 08/25/2017 4:15:05 PM PDT by Jhadur ("You will fall on one another like wolves.")
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To: EDINVA

It’s not crazy. It’s a deliberate attempt by the OBAMA Shadow government to destroy our culture, history and self identity. It’s an Alinskyite tactic.


35 posted on 08/25/2017 4:37:22 PM PDT by ZULU (DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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To: JBW1949

They will be coming for the Stand Watie memorial in Tahlequah and removing the Stand Watie Memorial Highway 59 signs next. May need to place guards over the Polson Cemetery between Jay, Grove Oklahoma and Southwest City MO.


36 posted on 08/25/2017 4:58:02 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: HokieMom

Call the street an Outdoor Walking Museum tour and leave them alone.

I really don’t care about the statues, I just get tired of the crybaby progressives and their continual whining, so I don’t want them to win anything...ever.


37 posted on 08/25/2017 4:59:35 PM PDT by No Socialist
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To: A_Former_Democrat

I love Monticello. That would be sad.


38 posted on 08/25/2017 5:00:23 PM PDT by No Socialist
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To: No Socialist

Yes, no quarter.


39 posted on 08/25/2017 5:24:47 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: 103198

I have it on good authority that there is at least one Black Confederate on the monument with multiple soldiers. Do the Dems want to deface and lynch his statue now, too?


40 posted on 08/25/2017 5:52:20 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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