Well isn't he special.....
Posted on 12/07/2021 3:56:17 PM PST by Skywise
Charlottesville City Council has determined the fate of one of the statues removed this past July.
Just past midnight Tuesday, December 7, a historic decision was made: four city councilors (Vice Mayor Sena Magill was away tending to a family emergency) voted to give the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. There, it will be melted and transformed into a new piece of art “that expresses the city’s values of inclusivity and racial justice,” according to the organization’s bid.
“The only option I would consider for the Lee statue is the Jefferson School,” Councilor Michael Payne said before the vote.
Most public commenters made during the meeting about the statues supported the “Swords Into Plowshares” proposal.
“We have the opportunity to be an example for the rest of the country of how to turn racist symbols of oppression and hatred into works of healing and beauty,” said Lisa Draine, who told council her daughter was injured as a counter-protester on August 12, 2017.
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“Here we’re giving the statue to the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center, we’re effectively giving them a $325,000 gift,” he said. “Would we give them $325,000 in cash? I think the answer is clearly no.”
However, Mayor Nikuyah Walker called that option “problematic.” She said she has her own problems with the Exploratory Center.
“There was something I read [in the Center’s proposal] that said ‘listen to Native people.’ I think you have to do more than listen,” the mayor said. “I think you have to learn from them and that they are not advising on a project like this, they are actually leading.”
The new governor should weight in on this - - hope to hear more soon.
A new St. Floyd statue?
We need to melt ALL statues of Democrats so all traces of their Leftist/Communist existence is erased. Also, all oil paintings of these America-haters should be burned. Burn all photos of them and black out their names appearing anywhere found in any books. Make it so no future American child will ever hear their names.
It will always be Lee no matter what you do to it
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - and I'm sure whatever they come up with, will be puke-worthy to the average American..
Wizard of Oz, goodbye witch.
Then our hopes for the similar end of Hillary and Pelosi.
Nothing happened.
Yet another shot in the simmering CWII.
Those statues are often times not owned by anyone except the organization to placed it there. They might be stealing this.
Simply reprehensible. Ignorant fools are driving this.
Well isn't he special.....
Naw. They'll probably go with George Floyd or Michael Brown.
Wouldn’t be enough bronze in that statue to even cast St. George’s lips
I can’t imagine what abomination they’ll come up with.
How about “melting” the Charlotte City Council?
Probably a statue of Lenin
If someone says it sounds extreme remember that is what THEY are now doing to us via CRT in schools and destruction of the language (Pelosi banned the male and female gender in Congress legislation) and statues and names of schools and buildings.
Not shocking to have a turnabout. Commies have killed tens of millions of people around the world. They should never be honored.
Examples :
The world’s costliest civil war, in terms of the number of lives lost during combat and in events relating to the war, is the Russian Civil War of 1917-22. It is estimated that the former Soviet Union lost some 1.5 million combatants, and around 8 million civilians died following armed attacks, famine and disease.
Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the archival revelations, some historians estimated that the numbers killed by Stalin’s regime were 20 million or higher.
At least 45 million people died unnecessary deaths during China’s Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1962, including 2.5 million tortured or summarily killed.
Sculpted by Yoko Ono? Oh, wait, someone was reading the post to me. You meant the other one.
The Democrats are erasing their own history.
Guess what they’re going to replace it with.
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