Posted on 04/05/2021 6:35:30 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
At Asheville City Council’s meeting of March 23, members voted 6-1 to demolish the 75-foot obelisk named after Confederate Gov. Zebulon Vance. “I’ve come to realize that the Vance Monument no longer reflects, and probably never reflected, the values of our community,” Mayor Esther Manheimer said. “I’m looking forward to the day we can have a centerpiece in our city that reflects Asheville today. And I’m proud to be part of the Council that will make this change.”
That change comes at a price: A $114,500 bid to remove the monument was awarded to Asheville contractor Chonzie. A separate $25,535 contract for temporary site restoration will go to Asheville-based MS Lean Landscaping.
After the monument is gone, the city will begin crafting a “comprehensive Community Vision document” to inform the future direction of its downtown plaza, costing up to $70,000. A planning phase to solicit public engagement will run through the fall, said Jade Dundas, Asheville’s public works director. The final report is expected to go before Council this winter.
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Future priorities: Reimagining the police, reparations for black city residents, etc.
By tearing down monument to former governor and giving reparations to black people in Asheville, unity will be achieved!
The Taliban and ISIS would be proud.
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American Taliban.
Remember how the Left used to call the right the American Taliban? More projection on their part.
The irony and hypocrisy are amazing.
There were few slaves in the Asheville are during the civil war. The retreat for the Asheville city council was held in Cherokee, NC. Asheville provided troops that forced the Cherokee Indians on the “Trail of Tears” and decimated the Cherokee Nation. Shouldn’t the Asheville City Council vote for reparations to the Cherokee Indians instead of the Black people of the city? Or at least, start paying them too?
There were very few slaves in Western NC, because there was no cotton grown. However, the Cherokees were very much oppressed. Shouldn’t they pay reparations to the Cherokees?
How about a tribute to all the homeless vagrants that live there now that also smells like piss?
There were people living next to the river polluting the river.
Asheville is mini version of Portland. So of course this was going to happen.
So who will the replacement statue or monument honor?
Barack Obama? Stacy Abrams? Ocasio-Cortez?
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I have yet to see a truly attractive leftie. I guess they don’t exist.
How about a tribute the the Union soldiers who paid with their lives during the civil war. Seems the left doesn’t want to recognize that there was a huge payment made.
“The Disgraceful, Cowardly, Sniveling, American Sheeple Are Doing Nothing About It!”
Only in the liberal meccas like Asheville. It would never even be discussed in the conservative communities.
Asheville had a 250 person black clad cadre of miscreants who rioted and blocked traffic in March, 2021. I don’t know if they were making people get out of their cars, but it can get ugly in a moment. I presume that Portland can muster a lot more hooligans than 250.
Descendants of the Irish famine?
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