Posted on 02/08/2017 12:09:16 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) -The decision by Charlottesville City Council to move a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is drawing cheers from supporters and harsh criticism from others.
The issue could end up being decided in a courtroom.
City councilors voted 3-2 Monday, February 6, to move the statue from Lee Park. City staff now has 60 days to develop a plan to remove the statue, and recommend where to put it. This process is estimated to cost Charlottesville at least $350,000.
“I think that this could become a whole new chapter in the city's public visible history about race and our public spaces,” said Mayor Mike Signer, who voted not to move the statue.
Wayne Wingfield says he wanted to get another look at the monument to the general before it goes away.
“It was put here in 1924, so why do you want to take it away now?” Wingfield asked.
He added, “It's part of history. It's not hurting nothing sitting there”
Councilors unanimously decided to spend up to $1 million over the next year to redesign Lee Park and Jackson Park in Court Square. As a result, Lee Park will be renamed and a new memorial to Charlottesville's enslaved people will be installed. . .
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> As a result, Lee Park will be renamed...
SLAVERY PARK.
Absolutely
Fairly certain it was grey-on-grey
His security team failed him .
It happens .
Lt.Col. Max Galeai USMC - al Karma Iraq - 2008
Sadly, for the South!
I’m not even sure Charlottesville has Section 8 housing.
They’re probably like Chapel Hill. They store all their diversity on the other side of the tracks in Carrboro.
Or Durham.
We have trailer parks here. That’s the best we could do.
Oh no, that’s Duke diversity. It’s all the way down the hill from Chapel Hill. Different bus line.
There's a monument to Benedict Arnold's leg at Saratoga, so nobody could object to a monument to wherever Lee was wounded, especially if it's in another country.
Maybe they can donate it to Fortress Monroe, which Lee helped build when he was in the Army Core of Engineers.
If they really want to make a statement showing good vs bad, leave the statue of Lee and put an Obama statue beside it.
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