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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Not a myth, fact. Lincoln said so himself.
I noticed the posters with screen names that contain “GOP” or “Republican” in them are usually the biggest pussies squishes here.
Virginians should be ashamed...
An exception would be Texascapitalistgop
A great poster....remember him
You’re doing good....I for one appreciate it
Absolutely right. This is Orwell's 1984.
Nikki Haley started it all, from what I understand.
Haley did?
Wow, she’s fallen a long ways or more likely she was always this way just under the surface.
Wouldn't surprise me.
Say what?
He wasn't speaking for the Confederacy.
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.
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!”
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:
TwelveOfTwenty: "The confederacy was a democrat temper tantrum."
That is a totally accurate statement, and Pelham's suggestions otherwise are just Democrat propaganda lies.
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.
Simple history for simpletons.
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.
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.
No, accurate history for those who care about the truth.
Whenever you defend Democrats, you're defending a pack of lies, FRiend.
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