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 ...
To bad the crane didn’t collapse and kill all the BLM members below. /spit.
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.
And rename the streets
And take back the holiday
Federal workers need to work more anyway
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
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?
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
Don’t forget the Theodore Roosevelt statue at the Smithsonian.
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.
Yes, that would have been interpreted as a micro aggression. We wouldn’t want that, now would we? /S
Beware Little Minds
That “preserving the Union” thingy has sure worked out swell. Besmirching Americana has become a parlor game.
That’s right - the Teddy Roosevelt statue, too.
Also the St. Junipero Serra statues in California.
And many others...
Excellent point. All these gestures to boost self-esteem while ignoring the core issues that are destroying blacks across this country. Pathetic.
Replaced by a Statue Of the famous WOKE General Milley?
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?
The only thing I wonder about, is which one is next.
I doubt that most people in the crowd were even aware there was a U.S./Mexico war.
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?
Thank you Nikki Haley
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