-PJ
Posted on 09/08/2021 7:29:11 PM PDT by RandFan
One of the largest Confederate monuments came down Wednesday in Richmond, Va. Now, the state is announcing new plans for the base that used to hold the massive statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
They're going to remove a 133-year-old copper time capsule inside the pedestal and replace it with one that they say will reflect the current cultural climate in Virginia.
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The original time capsule was placed in the pedestal of the Confederate monument on Oct. 27, 1887, according to Virginia historians
When the capsule is removed on Thursday, state officials said the original capsule will be given to the Virginia Department of Historic Resources — making room for the Commonwealth's new capsule in its place.
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The new capsule was created by Virginia artist Paul DiPasquale, the sculptor behind both the Arthur Ashe monument in Richmond and the King Neptune statue in Virginia Beach.
According to the governor's office, a group of historians, educators, artists and state officials worked together to select nearly 40 submissions to be placed inside the new time capsule.
Some of the items include a photo of a Black ballerina taken by a local Richmond photographer in front of the statue, Kente cloth worn at the 400th commemoration of 1619, a "Black Lives Matter" sticker, "Stop Asian Hate" fliers, an LGBTQ pride pin, and an expired vial of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine.
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I would say it’s clobberin’ time… but that time has come and gone. America as founded… is dead.
“Now in 2021, this capsule gives future Virginians artifacts of the tectonic transition that has happened to us,” DiPasquale said.
The absolute gall of these people. They’re seriously going to speak of their “tectonic transition” while they dispose of a time capsule from the most tectonic transition in the history of our country?
The gall……
They must think that “Sic semper tyrannis” means “Always sick tyrants.”
Destruction of works of art and historical artifacts for ideological reasons is evil and utterly barbaric. We have brought ourselves down to the same level as the Taliban, ISIS and the Nazis. Despicable!
I left Virginia and left my Virginia flag behind as a point of irony. The state is lost to the NoVa hive.
What kind of queer and trans crap will they put in that.
Nevermind, I should have read the whole thing. Virginia is lost.
Communist faggots. No other way to describe them
-PJ
How about the four Taliban Leaders of Afghanistan that Obama released?
But Guvner Blackface is still standing.
Ok...y’all need to make your own time capsules...like I am doing. Also, I’m keeping a “political/historical diary...just a few sentences about issues as I SEE Them every once in awhile.....your children, grandchildren WILL thank you...probably...if they survive all this.
I am so sick of 15% of our population telling the rest of us how to live our lives. Absolute madness.
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Tighten your seatbelt. It is about to get worse. Much, much worse.
Or Osama Ben Laden.
Glad I didn’t have children, because their life under communism is going to suck. P*ss on Virginia.
A butt plug and a dildo illustrating what the left does to the American people.
Probably ANOTHER St. Floyd statue!!!
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