Posted on 09/23/2021 6:06:06 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
A new monument has been unveiled in the spot where the iconic Robert E. Lee equestrian stood in Richmond — just two weeks after it was removed. The statue of Lee was a national historic landmark and installed in 1890.
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Negro fatigue article 38,572.
It’s all going according to “The Plan”.
I hope the statue gets spray painted with graffiti before it is toppled. /spit.
I am never going downtown again, so I will never see it.
Good opportunity to ask friends on the left:
Why is slavery bad?
What exactly does freedom mean, and why is it good?
Freedom…as they put ALL in chains.
“Emancipation Monument”...at least the DERPS appear to have a sense of irony as they mock us all while leading into digital servitude
No wonder they’re stripping the USA of all reminders of American Heritage
How about we get emancipated from the far left?
Oh, well than Lee never existed! Extreme sarcasm.
Emancipation? As in the Emancipation Proclamation, written by a Republican president? The Union Army, with the Stars and Stripes as their banner, freed the slaves. I’m sure the Wokesters will proudly display the Stars and Stripes at this monument. No?
“Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud”
Dittos
I see what you did...
Excellent.
I’m borrowing that...
Any calls to take it down yet? You know, replace it with saint george the patron saint of fentanyl.
The irony is that governments are now becoming the massahs and the citizens are becoming the slaves with more and more regulation of the tiny details of the lives of citizens.
We are heading towards the leftist wet-dream of “everything that is not prohibited is mandatory”.
Tear it down. That is a perfectly acceptable practice today.
Sauce for the goose.
Slavery has existed in one form or another since the dawn of time. Only with the success of the American Revolutionary War and the promulgation of the American Constitution, did slavery as an institution begin to disappear all over the world.
Iow, Northam had this as a secret plan all along.
It’s fine to have a monument to emancipation, but it violates the agreement that gave the state the land for the monument to Lee.
Both can exist. But Coonman needed a sacrifice from someone else to expiate his guilt for his earlier behavior.
Whites celebrating how they controlled the blacks then “gave” them their freedom.
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