Posted on 09/08/2021 2:26:40 PM PDT by algore
The 12-ton, 21ft bronze General Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia, was removed at 9am
The statue is the largest Confederate monument in Virginia and the largest Confederate statue in the country
It was erected in 1890 in honor of Lee, a prominent slave owner and revered Confederate Army general
Last year, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced it would be brought down in light of the BLM movement
A time capsule that has been in the statue's base for 131 years will be replaced by a new one
The new capsule contains 39 'artifacts' including a BLM sticker, a 'Virginia is for lovers' Pride sticker, an expired COVID vaccine and pictures from a Stop Asian Hate Protest
Richmond Police closed the roads surrounding the statue and fenced it off ahead of the removal
Pedestrians were allowed to watch it from a viewing area on Monument Avenue; they chanted, cheered and sang as it was taken down
Senate Republicans in Virginia and some residents wanted to stop it from being torn down; they say the monuments are part of the state's history
Another statue of Lee in Charlottesville was brought down in July - that was the site of the Unite the Right rally in 2017
Since 2020, 160 Confederate statues, school names and monuments have been removed across the US
The Southern Poverty Law Center says there are still some 2,000 'symbols' still standing across the US
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and a Fentanyl saturated lock of George Floyd’s hair...
Yep. And there has been solid evidence of that all over the place the past few years, but that won’t stop some fools on the right from cheering this on.
To clear overpasses?
He did for most of his life, both his own and those his wife was given or inherited.
The leftists, commies, socialists, anarchists, demonKKKrats are our Taliban.
Yes, The #JihadJunta is proceeding unabated and with the blessing of the Useful Idiots in Congress.
It looks like they cut it so it could be transported. That’s my take seeing flatbed truck they are loading it on.
A statue is a work of art. Destroying art is a sign of a deranged culture. The statue could have been returned to the decendants of the sculptor.
With Lee removed they still won’t stop shooting each other.
It’s hard to watch a purely racist cult such as BLM prevail. Racists like BLM should never win.
At 21ft high, and on a flatbed trailer, it wouldn’t fit under local bridges.
It was erected in 1890 in honor of Lee, a prominent slave owner and revered Confederate Army general
And the new time capsule sounds like it’s a huge improvement over the old with the BLM and Pride stickers and all.
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Cut in half supposedly for transport and storage. I’d imagine it’s quite heavy (12 tons).
There’ll always be an America; just not the one we grew-up in and loved.
Heinrich Heine: “Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.”
In this case statues.
It is a huge mistake to allow these flaky liberals to take down symbols of American history, no matter if you object to them or not. If you watch in the near future, you will see why. The liberal democrats want these statues taken down because now their behavior embarrasses them. The southern democrats embraced slavery and now they would like to include those who did not, hence the democrat expression ‘systemic racism’.
That’s a lot of scrap bronze
$$$
Does the city get it?
This will resolve the black family crisis.
It was reported earlier today that it would be stored until they figured out what to9 do with it.
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