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BLM crowd sing and cheer as Richmond's Robert E. Lee monument is removed after 131 years and CUT IN HALF
Daily Mail ^

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

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: oldnews
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To: algore

To bad the crane didn’t collapse and kill all the BLM members below. /spit.


61 posted on 09/08/2021 3:24:35 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: algore

What? No neo Nazis Tiki torch parades protecting the monuments? Could it be that C-ville was just Soros paid left wing agit prop?

The current political class in Richmond is pathetic. Lee was devoted to Virginia. Today he was stabbed in the back.


62 posted on 09/08/2021 3:25:29 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul (s)
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To: jimbug

And rename the streets

And take back the holiday

Federal workers need to work more anyway


63 posted on 09/08/2021 3:26:19 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (#LeaveTheGOP. Pass it on Liberty Valance Time. The point of a gun is the only law they understan)
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To: algore

Lee was a hero of the US Mexican war.

I expect book burning to start this winter, followed by Bwando on the crops next spring


64 posted on 09/08/2021 3:27:55 PM PDT by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable )
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To: Altura Ct.

Columbus statues were destroyed and/or removed.

Confederate statues are being destroyed and/or removed.

Even a Lincoln Emancipation Memorial was removed because the slave breaking free from his chains wasn’t standing up.

What will be next?


65 posted on 09/08/2021 3:28:29 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: jeffersondem
Can you provide documentation of where Lee purposefully aquired slaves of his own?

Douglas Southall Freeman talks about Lee's slave ownership earlier in his life. He inherited some from his mother on her death in Lee's own letters talk about owning slaves going back to the 1840sThe Library of Congress has documentation of two Lee slaves, William and Rosabella Burke, who Lee freed in the early 1850s and whose passage to Liberia was paid by Lee. Burke later graduated from a Presbyterian seminary in Monrovia and was an minister. Mrs. Burke corresponded with Mrs. Lee for years prior to the rebellion. Here's a link to the site: Source

66 posted on 09/08/2021 3:30:58 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Tired of Taxes

Don’t forget the Theodore Roosevelt statue at the Smithsonian.


67 posted on 09/08/2021 3:34:05 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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To: algore

Deo Vindice.

A great and honorable man. It is painful to see his legacy trashed by puerile and ignorant cretins not fit to shine his boots.

History will enshrine his deeds and abilities forever, despite all efforts by the radical left to erase them. We will never forget.


68 posted on 09/08/2021 3:35:56 PM PDT by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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To: Born to Conserve
I would have stopped to help, but I didn’t want to risk oppressing them.

Yes, that would have been interpreted as a micro aggression. We wouldn’t want that, now would we? /S

69 posted on 09/08/2021 3:41:37 PM PDT by Mark17 (USAF, Retired. Father of USAF officer and trained pilot, who loves flying US Air Force aircraft. )
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To: bk1000

Beware Little Minds


70 posted on 09/08/2021 3:43:54 PM PDT by GOYAKLA
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To: marktwain

That “preserving the Union” thingy has sure worked out swell. Besmirching Americana has become a parlor game.


71 posted on 09/08/2021 3:44:31 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: shadowlands1960

That’s right - the Teddy Roosevelt statue, too.

Also the St. Junipero Serra statues in California.

And many others...


72 posted on 09/08/2021 3:47:51 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA
This will resolve the black family crisis.

Excellent point. All these gestures to boost self-esteem while ignoring the core issues that are destroying blacks across this country. Pathetic.

73 posted on 09/08/2021 3:48:08 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: algore

Replaced by a Statue Of the famous WOKE General Milley?


74 posted on 09/08/2021 3:48:23 PM PDT by GOYAKLA
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To: hadaclueonce
Lee was a hero of the US Mexican war.

In that case, do you suppose all those BLM pukes, living in TX, NM, AZ and CA, would like to suddenly find themselves part of Mexico again?

75 posted on 09/08/2021 3:52:29 PM PDT by Mark17 (USAF, Retired. Father of USAF officer and trained pilot, who loves flying US Air Force aircraft. )
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To: mo
You really need’nt wonder...of course thats next on the agenda of this crowd

The only thing I wonder about, is which one is next.

76 posted on 09/08/2021 3:54:09 PM PDT by Mark17 (USAF, Retired. Father of USAF officer and trained pilot, who loves flying US Air Force aircraft. )
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To: hadaclueonce
Lee was a hero of the US Mexican war.

I doubt that most people in the crowd were even aware there was a U.S./Mexico war.

77 posted on 09/08/2021 3:55:33 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: jonrick46

When will the Black Citizens of this country realize that the BLM is the worst thing that has happened to them since the Civil War?


78 posted on 09/08/2021 3:58:07 PM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: algore

Thank you Nikki Haley


79 posted on 09/08/2021 4:00:51 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: algore

We’ve already been having fun here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3992902/posts


80 posted on 09/08/2021 4:01:28 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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