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Statue of Lewis & Clark and Sacagawea toppled in Charlottesville
New York Post ^ | July 10, 2021 | Mary Kay Linge

Posted on 07/10/2021 1:10:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The city of Charlottesville, Va. followed up its removal of two controversial Confederate statues Saturday with the lightning-fast toppling of a third local landmark: a monumental tribute to explorers Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea.

In an emergency meeting called with 20 minutes’ notice, the Charlottesville City Council voted unanimously to cancel another piece of public art targeted by left-wing activists.

“I feel that it should just be melted down,” Rose Ann Abrahamson, a Sacagawea descendant, said during the council meeting, The Daily Progress reported. “I feel that it’s entirely offensive and it should be obliterated.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: cancelculture; fockvirginia; lewisandclark; sacagawea
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To: elpadre

The GOP is lead by Northern VA GOP establishment hacks. The VA Governors race has as our RINO picked candidate, Youngkin, who won’t even acknowledge he is even a Republican or even talk about MAGA on his TV ads.


61 posted on 07/10/2021 3:26:53 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: nickcarraway
two controversial Confederate statues

Controversial to whom?

62 posted on 07/10/2021 3:28:33 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: econjack

I’m offended that the statue offends her.


63 posted on 07/10/2021 3:29:07 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Socon-Econ

This “offended direct descendant” (almost certainly a lie) can now put up statues of Vladmir Lenin, Mao (together with his sexual diseases) and Leon Trotsky, the latter shown with an axe in his head, courtesy of Stalin.


64 posted on 07/10/2021 3:51:55 PM PDT by laconic
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To: nickcarraway

Why not save all the drams and just have the progressives in Congress pass a bill to remove all statues of white men in the country unless they were gay?


65 posted on 07/10/2021 4:01:59 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: Eleutheria5

Then why didn’t the statue show that joint effort
. Imstead Sacjawea is humbled behind them. When I was a kid there was Goldenbook Stamp and coloring books on many topics
In one devoted to American history the coloring page had Sacajawea standing in the bow of a canoe directing with her arm Lewis and Clark. That kind of statue no one could argue with. Without Sacajawea the Corps of Discovery is epic fail. But in the past some Americans couldn’t accept ideas like that. Flame Away!!


66 posted on 07/10/2021 4:03:32 PM PDT by xkaydet65 ( )
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To: nickcarraway

Thank You Nikki Haley


67 posted on 07/10/2021 4:04:09 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: elpadre

No, we’re pissed about this, we have been invaded, this is people from elsewhere doing this.


68 posted on 07/10/2021 4:04:55 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: nickcarraway
"Rose Ann Abrahamson, a Sacagawea descendant,"

Lie. Bet on it.

69 posted on 07/10/2021 4:16:11 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Parmy

[We are living in the Twilight Zone]

We most certainly are. Guess I have to get rid of my Sacagawea coins now? Strange times, indeed. “Interesting Times” I often post.

Speaking of the Twilight Zone, here’s an old thread from awhile back:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3905139/posts


70 posted on 07/10/2021 4:28:44 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ, and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com)
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To: Texas Fossil

[These urban idiots intend to destroy the USA. Collapse it economically and destroy all evidence that we have been here.]

I you had told me in 2001, the things we are seeing today, I would never have believed it. Not this side of the 70th week of Daniel’s prophecy.


71 posted on 07/10/2021 4:30:52 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ, and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com)
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To: enumerated

re-writing history is one of the basic tenets of Marxism in the taking over a nation - the destruction of statues is part of that endeavor. (Marxism 101)


72 posted on 07/10/2021 5:06:47 PM PDT by elpadre ( )
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To: elpadre; nickcarraway

I’ll wager a Clark candy bar that the protestors and council members that voted for the removal are NOT native Virginians. Most likely they are socialists who’ve infiltrated the state like those who have taken over control of the near-DC counties.


73 posted on 07/10/2021 5:16:31 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: elpadre

:-(

I really thought Americans would be smarter than this.


74 posted on 07/10/2021 5:18:59 PM PDT by enumerated
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To: SaveFerris

My wife and I have turned it over to him, but we are going to do out part to right this ship of state.

I decided to back away from the seed wheat business and focus on working on homes.

Wife has 2, I have 2 and my father died in March and left that one to my brother and I. We are going to deed it to our 3 children. So I have a full plate year.


75 posted on 07/10/2021 5:19:10 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: nickcarraway

Never was there a US Military expedition that treated Native indians with more respect than that of Lewis and Clark.


76 posted on 07/10/2021 5:21:52 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Play with knives long enough and you will eventually bleed.)
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To: SaveFerris

The irony that these people are too stupid to realize they carry around images of dead slaveholders in their wallets is quite enjoyable.


77 posted on 07/10/2021 5:23:43 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Play with knives long enough and you will eventually bleed.)
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To: Rebelbase

I imagine Lewiston MT would take the statue


78 posted on 07/10/2021 5:29:00 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: nickcarraway

Bunch of stupid savages tearing down statues because they are morons.


79 posted on 07/10/2021 5:39:08 PM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Rebelbase

I’m the “what’s in your wallet?” guy..

Funniest thing he ever did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdxMkQhq58g


80 posted on 07/10/2021 5:44:09 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ, and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com)
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