Posted on 06/04/2020 11:19:10 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
Washington (CNN)Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced on Thursday plans to remove a statue honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Richmond's historic Monument Avenue, a move that comes amid a national reckoning with America's complicated racial history. "That statue has been there for a long time. It was wrong then, and it's wrong now. So we're taking it down," Northam, a Democrat, said during a news event in Richmond. Northam said he would be directing the Department of General Services to remove the statue "as soon as possible" and it will go into storage while they "work with the community to determine its future." "Make no mistake, removing a symbol is important but it's only a step. It doesn't mean problems are solved. There are still monuments of inequalities that exist in our commonwealth and in this country," the governor said, calling for change and healing.
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I wonder when the Governor of W. Virginia will start removing the buildings and bridges named for Robert KKK Byrd.
If the current governor can take the statue down, the next governor can put it right back up.
GOVERNOR BLACK FACE - Minstrel Clown
HA! As if.
>> “That statue has been there for a long time. It was wrong then, and it’s wrong now. So we’re taking it down,” Northam, a Democrat, said during a news event in Richmond.
Blackface Northam has been there too long. His past was wrong then and it is wrong now.
Recall the initial outrage about his yearbook photo and then crickets because he wanted to retain political power.
Remove Northam.
burn the books
>>”Make no mistake, removing a symbol is important but it’s only a step. It doesn’t mean problems are solved.
It doesn’t solve a single problem
He’s acting like the taliban when they blew up ancient Buddhist statues or Mao when he ordered the Chinese Communists to destroy antiques from the dynasties.
demonicRATS trying to erase their ties to the history of racism, slavery and white supremacy.
Here is the plan. They want to erase the history of this late great nation. While everyone is occupied with the carona virus and the civil unrest, Black Face is quietly getting a head start with his erasure by removing icons of our history while no one is looking. He is a coward to be doing this, and he is a coward to aid and abet the murder of babies in their mother’s wombs.
If he wanted to be really politically pure, he should remove the statues and name of the well-known and verified adulterer and woman-beater Martin Luther (aka Michael) King. For that matter, he’s another one that the hypocritical “Me Too” harpies conveniently ignore- what’s a little woman beating when you’re on the correct side of the political divide?
Coon Man establishes his black creds! Now the bros are down with him!
I think slavery was made up. It never happened. Prove there were ever slaves. ALL LIVES MATTER.
1984.....
There. Fixed it.
Tomorrow at 11, he will a announce a ban on all images of governors in blackface or klanrobes
I wonder how many of the blacks supporting the Democrats realize the Dems were behind slavery, Jim Croow, the KKK and segregation in the South?
Never go full Taliban.
Changing America overnight, how do you feel America?
Erasing the past worked for the USSR.
“Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.”
- Edmund Burke
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