Posted on 09/06/2021 9:14:41 PM PDT by RandFan
Richmond's statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee — the largest remaining Confederate statue in the country and a divisive symbol in a city where a number of similar statues have already been removed — will be taken down Wednesday.
"Virginia’s largest monument to the Confederate insurrection will come down this week,” Gov. Ralph Northam (D) said in a statement. “This is an important step in showing who we are and what we value as a Commonwealth.”
On Tuesday evening, crews will install protective fencing along Monument and Allen avenues, where the statue is located, to restrict cars and pedestrians, The Washington Post reported. After the statue is removed Wednesday, it will be kept at a state-owned facility.
Northam first announced plans to remove the statue in June 2020, after nationwide protests following the murder of George Floyd ramped up longstanding pressure to take down the statue.
The removal was delayed for more than a year due to two lawsuits, one filed by a group of Richmond residents and the other filed by a descendant of the family who gave the statue to Virginia.
Both complaints asserted that Northam did not have the authority to remove the statue because Virginia is restricted by language in the statue's 1889 deed. A judge ruled in the state's favor in October, but the statue remained as the plaintiffs appealed the ruling to the state's Supreme Court.
The Virginia Supreme Court earlier this month ruled that the statue could come down.
“As we continue our work to address systemic racism in our society, bringing this statue down will be an important step in the ongoing process of making Virginia a more open, welcoming, fair, and just place for everyone,” state Attorney General Mark Herring (D) said following the Virginia Supreme Court's ruling.
The public can watch the removal of the statue through a Facebook livestream and on Northam's Twitter handle, @GovernorVA, according to the Post.
Democrats erasing their treasonous history.
This is totally ridiculous. Nikki Haley started this crap!
So stupid....these dumb Dems act like a war my number contributed to Floyd’s death. Another reason to not visit these liberal bastions of fraud.
Umm - it was NOT an insurrection.
The confederate states wanted to secede from the Union and the north refused to allow them to do so.
Nobody cares that they were Democrats. Statues are being eliminated to destroy our American heritage.
That’s it in a nutshell
I had two G-G Grandfathers fight in the G.A.R. and lost two G-G Uncles to Confederate wounds.
And I am DEEPLY GRIEVED to see this taking place.
“I had two G-G Grandfathers fight in the G.A.R. and lost two G-G Uncles to Confederate wounds. And I am DEEPLY GRIEVED to see this taking place.”
Why? Because you’re an American and you understand that both sides in the war were American and it’s part of our heritage, which these America-haters want to destroy. As Trump predicted, they wouldn’t stop with Confederates, and they aren’t.
“I had two G-G Grandfathers fight in the G.A.R. and lost two G-G Uncles to Confederate wounds. And I am DEEPLY GRIEVED to see this taking place.”
Why? Because you’re an American and you understand that both sides in the war were American and it’s part of our heritage, which these America-haters want to destroy. As Trump predicted, they wouldn’t stop with Confederates, and they aren’t.
“This is an important step in showing who we are and what we value as a Commonwealth.”
Apparently they don’t value history.
You don’t get it, do you? You just don’t get it.
Attorney General Mark Herring admitted to an incident in which he also wore blackface:
“In 1980, when I was a 19-year-old undergraduate in college (at the University of Virginia), some friends suggested we attend a party dressed like rappers we listened to at the time, like Kurtis Blow, and perform a song.”
No I get it. YOU don’t. I’m sick and f’ing tired of people calling themselves conservatives,i.e Republicans who then come here and proceed to venerate a bunch of treasonous Southern Democrats.
Read : The Real Lincoln, by Thomas DiLorenzo. Meticulously researched and footnoted.
You’ll be shocked at what has been hidden from all of us.
Lee was a great American. And Trump was absolutely right that the mob would go on to attack Jefferson and Washington. And they’ve gone after many others. That’s the big picture. The destruction and denigration of American heritage.
Lee was a great American. And Trump was absolutely right that the mob would go on to attack Jefferson and Washington. And they’ve gone after many others. That’s the big picture. The destruction and denigration of American heritage.
Sad.
Funny how you, 160 years later, is more inflamed about the Civil War than the guys who actually fought it. Did you miss in the Ken Burns Civil War series where he covered the 1913 Gettysburg reunion?
The rebels reenacted Pickett’s Charge and were met at the rock fence with cold drinks and hand shakes? At night rebel and union camps “raided” each other’s camps and drank late into the night.
But I guess you feel the pain more than they did. Very sensitive of you.
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