Charlottesville begins taking down Confederate statues

CNN ^ | July 10, 2021 | Jason Hanna and Ralph Ellis

[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.

[redshawk]

Good. No slavery... No reparations. Nasty people

[phoneman08]

Yep. Just a bit more subtle, but they’re all one and the same.

[antidemoncrat]

Just wanting to make room for more George Floyd statues?

[aces]

Maybe a Trans soldier replacement..
I live outside of cville in the mountains, students doing this..

[cyclotic]

A bunch of stupid leftist sheep clapped and cheered like the trained seals they are.

My daughter is one of 6 known conservatives living in Charlottesville, better known as Berkeley East.

[combat_boots]

She needs to move

[Impala64ssa]

So how’s the replacement Mao and Stalin statues look?
Somewhere in NYC is an apartment building with a statue of Lenin on the roof. If I went by it, yeah I'd be a bit perturbed but my inner smartass would be inclined to move in and squat, demanding the owners let me live there rent free, you know, like, SHARE THE LAND, man. Alinskys Rules for Radicals #4, force the enemy to live by their own rules

[bgill]

VA needs to give up its statehood and start sending out those reparation checks.

[frank ballenger]

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

Both "heroes" seem to be sad looking as they gaze at the center statue of George Floyd, his angel wings folded slightly inward.

[frank ballenger]

Underpaid black employee cleaning the statue of Hillary’s mentor....

“I hate this job. I could swear there’s wetness from the crotch every day. Hope it’s not what I think.”

[deport]

LOL....... Hey send one my way.

Life goes on, history changes/repeats, rulers come/go and
society adapts, makes changes. We live our short span on
earth and others take up for their short span. So be it. Mine
is approaching its end.

[FreedBird]

CNN considers a crowd 20 people, when Biden came out of the basement bunker.

[phoneman08]

There’s some guy that’s been squatting for more than twenty years in NY.

Hmmm