Posted on 10/26/2023 4:40:54 PM PDT by Ennis85
It was a choice to melt down Robert E. Lee. But it would have been a choice to keep him intact, too. So the statue of the Confederate general that once stood in Charlottesville — the one that prompted the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017 — was now being cut into fragments and dropped into a furnace, dissolving into a sludge of glowing bronze.
Six years ago, groups with ties to the Confederacy had sued to stop the monument from being taken down. Torch-bearing white nationalists descended on the Virginia college town to protest its removal, and one man drove his car through a crowd of counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring 35 others. The statue’s defenders more recently sought to block the city from handing Lee over to Charlottesville’s Black history museum, which proposed a plan to repurpose the metal. In a lawsuit, those plaintiffs suggested the monument should remain intact or be turned into Civil War-style cannons. But on Saturday the museum went ahead with its plan in secret at this small Southern foundry, in a town and state The Washington Post agreed not to name because of participants’ fears of violence.
“Well, they can’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again,” said Andrea Douglas, the museum’s executive director, as she watched pieces of oxidized metal descend into the furnace. “There will be no tape for that.” “No cannons,” added Jalane Schmidt, a University of Virginia religious studies professor standing beside her.
Swords Into Plowshares, a project led by the two women, will turn bronze ingots made from molten Lee into a new piece of public artwork to be displayed in Charlottesville. They made arrangements for Lee to be melted down while they started collecting ideas from city residents for that new sculpture.
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Orwellian travesty
The temperature of the furnace was important enough to mention in the headline?
Taliban.
Video
Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue melted down in a furnace by the Black History Museum in Charlottesville
https://rumble.com/v3rw00d-charlottesvilles-robert-e.-lee-statue-melted-down-in-a-furnace.html
Sick
Idiots.
Plain Nuts.
Ironic that Robert E. Lee was opposed to slavery.
Multiculturalism has destroyed the country probably beyond any chance of repair.
A very sad day for America.
And I have three Great-Grandfathers who fought for the Union.
Leftists have to do away with ALL American history.....
Burn books too. Only the bad ones of course.
Burn paintings. Only the bad ones.
Make charcoal of the ashes. Draw something new. The art will be great, embodying the destruction of the bad.
I wonder what the Taliban did with the dust and rubble from the Buddha statues.
What the virtue signaling history ignoramuses don’t realize is that Lee was a well known abolitionist.
We let it happen. Shame on us.
Shameful.
I would have had it reconfigured into a bizarre and ugly contortion and erected it in commemoration of the riots....saying it should never happen again.
Torch bearing white nationalists.
The Lincoln Project guys?
Dylann Roof and Derek Chauvin have one thing in common: Those two pissed off a lot of people.
I wonder if there are any statues to Rommel in Germany?
DISGUSTING!!!!
Eisenhower on Robert E Lee:
https://www.civilwarprofiles.com/dwight-d-eisenhower-in-defense-of-robert-e-lee/
Next the new leftist Charlottesville will disavow any connection between the University of Virginia and Thomas Jefferson!
Charlottesville must redeem itself by erecting a statue of Robert E Lee at least three times larger than the one they destroyed!!
Wokeiban
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