Posted on 06/02/2020 11:54:13 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The United Daughters of the Confederacy have removed a Confederate monument a month early from an Alexandria, Va., intersection, Mayor Justin Wilson (D) said Tuesday.
Wilson said the group made the decision to remove the statue, “Appomattox,” ahead of schedule in light of several cases of segregation-era Confederate monuments being defaced in protests around the country, The Washington Post reported.
The statue was erected decades after the end of the Civil War in Alexandria's Old Town neighborhood.
The city has sought to remove the statue from public land for years, but it remained protected by state law. In April, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) signed a law allowing individual localities to move or remove Confederate monuments starting in July.
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(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
So no problems removing MLK statues?
What’s next? Removing Robert E. Lee’s house from Arlington?.....................
“Mayor Justin Wilson (D) said Tuesday”
No relation to the Cajun storyteller, I hope.
Should have defended it with firearms, but this is better than letting them just have at it.
The race problems in that area are now gone with the wind. Nothing but milk and honey from this day forward in Alexandria..............
I grew up in The South so I have an appreciation for the battlefields, monuments, and history of the civil war. I regret my children grew up on the west coast where there wasnt much of that history to appreciate. Now it doesnt seem like whats left be be around for future generations.
I see what the writer of the article did there.
“John Kennedy Street in Boston was renamed today. It was named after the segregation-era President, John F. Kennedy, who with his brother ordered the wire-tapping of . . . “
I think the loser monuments should be allowed to remain standing.
Demonrat Stalinazi AmeriKKKan Taliban strikes again.
Removing the statue is a sad commentary and does not bode well for anyone.
That said, the historical artwork can now be stored or displayed in a safe place. That hell-hole is not a safe place.
“I think the loser monuments should be allowed to remain standing.”
When western civilization was on the verge of extinction, the importance of lost causes was explained.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL-Jg7CyqLQ
And all the rioting ended immediately?
What’s next? Removing Robert E. Lee’s house from Arlington?...
Yes, I know. The Government still had to pay him for it though it took years.......................
In a fight between equals in strength, it would be fair to call them losers. But for the fight in question, the winner outnumbered the loser five to one, and even with such favorable odds in manpower, still almost got his @$$ beat.
“But for the fight in question, the winner outnumbered the loser five to one, and even with such favorable odds in manpower, still almost got his @$$ beat. “
Not really, thankfully the Confederates were never close to winning.
For them, "winning" was getting the invaders to go home, and yes, if they had done better at Gettysburg, they might have accomplished that.
Please take the Re-Fighting of the Civil War offline...
Removing the statue is a silly thing by folks who enjoy Sanctimonious Moral Preening - it does not change the History, but (the big ‘but’) it will come back to haunt those who think they are in the ‘right’ today....
And it will be glorious..
The statue and its inscription show a surrendered soldier and the date of surrender. It doesn’t glorify the Confederacy, it shows it’s over and done with. Why is that objectionable?
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