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Confederate Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson statues in Charlottesville officially removed
Fox News ^ | 10 July 2021 | Audrey Conklin

Posted on 07/10/2021 7:33:14 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo

The city of Charlottesville, Virginia, officially removed its statues of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson on Saturday.

Viewing areas for the removal of the statues were erected so that bystanders could watch cranes lift the statues from their plinth blocks; the process was nearly complete just before 9 a.m.

Photos and videos posted to social media show a crowd gathered to watch the process on Saturday morning.

Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker spoke at Saturday's gathering, calling the removal "one small step forward" in an effort to dismantle White supremacy, according to VPM reporter Ben Paviour.

Initial plans to remove the Lee statue came about in 2016, prompting White supremacists and other extremist groups to use the monument as a focal point for events such as the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally.

The statues will be held on Charlottesville property until they are sold, according to a Thursday press release from the city.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bidensfault; blacksupremacy; nikkisfault; obamasfault
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To: Republican Wildcat
mythology that it was about "liberty" and "states rights."

Not a myth, fact. Lincoln said so himself.

101 posted on 07/13/2021 2:00:24 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Pelham

I noticed the posters with screen names that contain “GOP” or “Republican” in them are usually the biggest pussies squishes here.


102 posted on 07/13/2021 2:02:09 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Virginians should be ashamed...


103 posted on 07/13/2021 2:06:27 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: central_va; Pelham

An exception would be Texascapitalistgop

A great poster....remember him


104 posted on 07/13/2021 11:36:54 PM PDT by wardaddy (Girls...in the end ....it's about them )
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To: Mr. Mojo

You’re doing good....I for one appreciate it


105 posted on 07/13/2021 11:37:48 PM PDT by wardaddy (Girls...in the end ....it's about them )
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To: Bulwyf; Mr. Mojo
Trying to erase history and the men who made it.

Absolutely right. This is Orwell's 1984.

Nikki Haley started it all, from what I understand.

106 posted on 07/13/2021 11:41:09 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

Haley did?

Wow, she’s fallen a long ways or more likely she was always this way just under the surface.


107 posted on 07/14/2021 4:09:03 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Mr. Mojo
Next target: the Founding Fathers.

Wouldn't surprise me.

108 posted on 07/14/2021 4:15:25 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: goodtomato
They never elude to the fact that the Statue of General Lee was erected prior to the Civil War!

Say what?

109 posted on 07/14/2021 4:18:54 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: central_va
Lincoln stated the goal of the war was not about slavery at all. He made that very clear.

He wasn't speaking for the Confederacy.

110 posted on 07/14/2021 4:21:26 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: babble-on
Of course, the people removing those statues are putting themselves in a position to accuse you of sedition by posting on a treasonous platform, when they decide the time is right.

It's been said before and I really hope it sinks in with you: our fight is not over North/South in the long-ago civil war, it is here and now between freedom and totalitarianism, the erasement of our common knowledge, which these history-erasers have planned for you. I hope you come to realize that.

111 posted on 07/14/2021 4:32:51 AM PDT by TimSkalaBim
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To: TimSkalaBim

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them.

Or as Levon Helm might have sung in Charlottesville had he been there last week, “Virgil, quick, come see,
There goes Robert E. Lee!”


112 posted on 07/14/2021 7:13:38 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: Pelham; TwelveOfTwenty; x; rockrr
Pelham to TwelveOfTwenty: "The Confederacy didn't have any political parties.
Its officials were a mix of former Democrats and Whigs, including one of the four Whig US Presidents...
...The Civil War wasn't "a Democrat temper tantrum" despite the firm belief of the illiterate."

Secession & war were driven by Democrat Fire Eaters -- Yancey, Wigfall, Rhett, De Bow, Keitt, Pryor, Pickens, etc., etc.
In 1860 they first split their majority Democrat party, South vs. North, to guarantee minority Republican victory, and then used Republican victory to justify secession.
Once secession was accomplished, Fire Eaters lead the charge to convince Jefferson Davis to start Civil War at Fort Sumter:

Jefferson Davis was a Democrat, as were his cabinet secretaries:
  1. Leroy Walker -- 1st Secretary of War
  2. Judah Benjamin -- 2nd Secretary of War
  3. Stephen Mallory -- Secretary of the Navy
  4. Christopher Memminger -- Secretary of Treasury
  5. John Reagan -- Postmaster General
  6. Robert Toombs -- 2nd Secretary of State
  7. Robert Hunter -- 2nd Secretary of State
All Democrats.
Only VP Alexander Stephens was not a Democrat before 1861, but he was a Democrat from 1861 until his death in 1883.

TwelveOfTwenty: "The confederacy was a democrat temper tantrum."

That is a totally accurate statement, and Pelham's suggestions otherwise are just Democrat propaganda lies.

113 posted on 07/14/2021 7:23:50 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK; Pelham
"The Confederacy didn't have any political parties. Its officials were a mix of former Democrats and Whigs, including one of the four Whig US Presidents...

John Tyler, who died in 1862, wasn't a true Whig. He was a Democrat who broke with the party over factional differences. He thought Andrew Jackson too high-handed and autocratic. Tyler thought that Jackson used extraconstitutional actions against the national bank, but he also didn't like Jackson's firm stance against South Carolina's nullifiers. As president, Tyler governed more as a Democrat than as a Whig, and most of the cabinet he inherited from Harrison resigned early on. Alexander Stephens had been a Whig and a friend of Abraham Lincoln, but Tyler was a Democrat at heart and committed to slavery and the Democrat's idea of state's rights.

114 posted on 07/14/2021 8:32:42 AM PDT by x
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To: BroJoeK

Simple history for simpletons.


115 posted on 07/14/2021 10:43:34 PM PDT by Pelham (No more words, now we fight)
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To: x

I like how you decide who “wasn’t a true Whig” or “was a Democrat at heart”. Clears up any untidy rubble that might interfere with the authorized version. I expect History By Seance to arrive soon, to better confirm those judgments.


116 posted on 07/14/2021 10:52:21 PM PDT by Pelham (No more words, now we fight)
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To: Pelham; BroJoeK

The Whigs expelled Tyler after he vetoed too many of their bills, and they tried to impeach him. He wanted to go back to the Democrats, but they didn’t want him either.


117 posted on 07/15/2021 7:18:01 AM PDT by x
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To: Pelham
Pelham: "Simple history for simpletons."

No, accurate history for those who care about the truth.
Whenever you defend Democrats, you're defending a pack of lies, FRiend.

118 posted on 07/15/2021 7:47:31 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: Mr. Mojo
found this graphic amusing


119 posted on 07/29/2021 10:33:25 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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