Posted on 12/21/2020 12:53:01 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Democrat Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, who faced controversy for dressing in black face while in medical school, ordered a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee removed overnight from the United States Capitol.
The Washington Post reported it will be replaced by a statue of Barbara Johns, who was a civil rights activist as a teen in Farmville, Virginia.
“Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) had requested the removal over the summer after a commission chartered by the General Assembly decided that a man who fought to uphold slavery was not a fitting symbol for a diverse and modern state,” the Post reported.
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There are a large number of anti-liberty people that should be removed in the dead of the night these days.
Uh, how is the gov of VA able to authorize removal of something supposedly in d.c.?
US Capitol???? How about the Virginia State Capitol??
Why doesn’t a Northam remove himself for Governorship? He is part of the Political Party that gave us the civil war?
Judging a brave, virtuous 19th century American hero by inverted 21st century values.
no, it’s US capitol..... says so in numerous sources.
That chickenshit is just trying to inflict as much collateral damage as possible before the next election.
well, no, actually the Republican party gave us the War Between the States; Lincoln was a Republican. Read a little history.
So....
Northam is sole leader of the US Capitol bldg??
What HE says, goes??
Is there NO opposition??? NONE???
They’re PLAYING us, folks.
THEY go along with it; then have the media tell us that Northam did it alone..
“...watch the peasants fight each other...”
Two of Washington's closest associates in winning our liberty were Lee's father and uncle. Men like Lee epitomized the Founders' posterity,, the liberty of whom was the stated purpose of the Revolution & the Constitution that followed. Truly this is the theatre of the absurd!!
Have the Leftist betrayers of the heritage of Virginia ever read the Preamble to the Constitution? Did any of them understand it? Will no one rise to defend the noble men who created the institutions being betrayed
Thank You Nimrata Randhawa
Bolsheviks destroyed Russian history beginning in 1917, Taliban destroyed Afghan history during their takeover of Afghanistan and now Ralphie is destroying Virginia history. There is no difference between any of the three.
Each state gets 2 statues in the Rotunda.
CoonMan!
If this “election” stands, future elections are meaningless.
The story is a mess. It was the state capitol.
I stand corrected.
So Trump was wrong after all: there are not good people on both sides of the statues issue, just on the side of respecting our heritage.
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