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Charlottesville begins taking down Confederate statues
CNN ^ | July 10, 2021 | Jason Hanna and Ralph Ellis

Posted on 07/10/2021 6:30:30 AM PDT by deport

Bronze statutes of two Confederate generals are being taken from public property in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, almost four years after they were a flashpoint for a violent "Unite the Right" rally that left one person dead.

Heavy machinery lifted a statue of Robert E. Lee in Market Street Park from its stone base around 8 a.m.

A crowd that gathered to watch clapped and cheered.

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


TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: antifa; blm; confederate; pc; statues; statutes; virginia
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1 posted on 07/10/2021 6:30:30 AM PDT by deport
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To: deport

Democrats continue to erase their history


2 posted on 07/10/2021 6:34:27 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: deport

“A crowd that gathered to watch clapped and cheered.”

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What does CNN consider to be a crowd? A hand full of people out of a population of 50,000?

Clapping and cheering at the destruction of history is not something to celebrate. Society can learn valuable lessons from understanding it’s past.


3 posted on 07/10/2021 6:37:40 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: airborne

So how’s the replacement Mao and Stalin statues look?


4 posted on 07/10/2021 6:38:27 AM PDT by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdz oncm,.dadfjl,dz )
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To: deport

None of the commie scum is fit to lick the mud off the boots of a man like Robert E. Lee.


5 posted on 07/10/2021 6:39:00 AM PDT by Levy78
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To: deport

When they demand that you pull down a statue out another up.

Screw the Woke.


6 posted on 07/10/2021 6:39:09 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Finally! They got rid of those statues! Blacks will no longer be a net drain on society !


7 posted on 07/10/2021 6:40:12 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: airborne

In Boston there is a statue of Crispus Attucks, honoring a slave that fought in the Revolutionary War. But he fought to establish a racist and genocidal country. That statue needs to be removed also.


8 posted on 07/10/2021 6:41:44 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: deport
I assume the statue of Hillarys mentor is still up at the Capitol building?


9 posted on 07/10/2021 6:43:39 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: deport

Biden has o get his 10%.


10 posted on 07/10/2021 6:44:17 AM PDT by arthurus (covfefe >)
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To: deport

They do not understand RE Lee and his motives for involvement in the war.


11 posted on 07/10/2021 6:44:34 AM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: deport

Bring us Barrabas!


12 posted on 07/10/2021 6:48:56 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: deport

We own rural property in Albemarle county. They are welcome to put the statues there.


13 posted on 07/10/2021 6:50:29 AM PDT by kalee
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And the removal of our history is destroyed.

The House of Liberty

by JoYCE BROWN, age 16

I came not for fortune, nor for fame,
I seek not to add glory to an unknown name,
I did not come under the shadow of night,
I came by day to fight for what’s right.

I shan’t let fear, my monstrous foe,
Conquer my soul with threat and woe.
Here I have come and here I shall stay,
And no amount of fear my determination can sway.

I asked for your churches, and you turned me down,
But I’ll do my work if I have to do it on the ground,
You will not speak for fear of being heard,
So crawl in your shell and say, “Do not disturb.”

You think because you’ve turned me away
You’ve protected yourself for another day,
But tomorrow surely must come,
And your enemy will still be there with the rising sun;

He’ll be there tomorrow as all tomorrows in the past,
And he’ll follow you into the future if you let him pass.
You’ve turned me down to humor him,
Ah! Your fate is sad and grim.

For even tho’ your help I ask,
Even without it, I’ll finish my task.
In a bombed house I have to teach my school,
Because I believe all men should live ~y the Golden Rule,

To a bombed house your children must come,
Because of your fear of a bomb,
And because you’ve let your fear conquer your soul,
In this bombed house these minds I must try to mold;

I must try to teach them to stand tall and be a man
When you, their parents, have cowered down and refused
to take a stand.

wy69


14 posted on 07/10/2021 6:54:57 AM PDT by whitney69 (uin )
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Watch and see, black IQ will jump from 85 to 105, the black crime rate will drop from 56 percent down to 15 percent, black illegitimacy rate will drop from 76 percent to 20 percent. It was those damn statues holding them back all these years, you just wait and see.


15 posted on 07/10/2021 6:56:57 AM PDT by euram
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To: deport

Amateurs, Portland tore down it’s bronze Elk statue long ago.


16 posted on 07/10/2021 6:57:24 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: deport
House Votes To Replace All Confederate Statues With Statues Of Chairman Mao
17 posted on 07/10/2021 7:18:40 AM PDT by Ragnar54 (Obama replaced Osama as America's worst enemy and Al Qaeda's financier)
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To: deport

The WhiteWashing of history. Pretty soon, slavery will never have existed.


18 posted on 07/10/2021 7:23:01 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: phoneman08

No Mao or Stalin.

But 0bama and Margaret Sanger will do the same.


19 posted on 07/10/2021 7:24:16 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: airborne

Have they rewritten the history text books yet?


20 posted on 07/10/2021 7:30:17 AM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/zNLpfEDliV0)
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