Posted on 09/08/2021 8:09:19 AM PDT by RandFan
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A crowd erupted in cheers and song Wednesday as work crews hoisted an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee off the pedestal where it has towered over Virginia’s capital city for more than a century.
One of America’s largest monuments to the Confederacy, the equestrian statue was lowered to the ground just before 9 a.m., after a construction worker who strapped harnesses around Lee and his horse lifted his arms in the air and counted, “Three, two, one!” to jubilant shouts from a crowd of hundreds. A work crew then began cutting it into pieces.
“Any remnant like this that glorifies the Lost Cause of the Civil War, it needs to come down, said Gov. Ralph Northam, who called it “hopefully a new day, a new era in Virginia.” The Democrat said it represents “more than 400 years of history that we should not be proud of.”
Sharon Jennings, an African American woman born and raised in Richmond, said she had mixed feelings seeing it go.
“It’s a good day, and it’s a sad day at the same time,” Jennings, 58, said. “It doesn’t matter what color you are, if you really like history, and you understand what this street has been your whole life and you’ve grown up this way, you’re thinking, ‘Oh, my God.’ But when you get older you understand that it does need to come down.”
Some chanted “Whose streets? Our streets!” and sang, “Hey hey hey, goodbye.” One man with a Black Lives Matter flag was escorted out by police after running into the fenced-off work area. No arrests were reported, and there was no sign of a counter protest.
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Believe whatever you want to believe, I don’t care.
Thanks so much for displaying your emotional and intellectual shoe size.
Believe and say whatever you want I don’t care. How many times do I have to tell you this.
Oh have no fear fatso, I’m no where the level of perspicacity and erudition you are.
Crawl back under your rock now, bye bye.
Screw off scumbag. I don’t care what you think.
And yet you keep posting nothing, over & over.
Give it up.
Yep, and I could say the same of you hypocrite. I will continue too do so because I’m bored with nothing else to do except listen to my audio book Miracle at Midway.
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