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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
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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: gunsequalfreedom

Traveler too!?!?


81 posted on 09/08/2021 4:01:36 PM PDT by HandyDandy
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To: algore

Have you ever heard that phrase “what goes around comes around”? Maybe it’s just a Southern thing.


82 posted on 09/08/2021 4:02:15 PM PDT by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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To: algore

My wife is a direct descendant to Robert E Lee.....he will always have a place of honor in our home!!!!


83 posted on 09/08/2021 4:04:18 PM PDT by ontap
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To: algore

How wonderful. If a CW statue is removed/destroyed, it means the CW never happened, right?


84 posted on 09/08/2021 4:09:14 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: mo
“A nation is defined by its borders, language and culture.”

Michael Savage.

85 posted on 09/08/2021 4:14:57 PM PDT by HandyDandy
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To: algore

Kind of like 1950 in China...


86 posted on 09/08/2021 4:18:38 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: butlerweave

What about Senator Robert Byrd?

Here’s an excerpt from the conservative publication Slate from June 30th, 2010 eulogizing Senator Byrd.

“ Robert Byrd, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, died Monday at 92. While he was most famous as a master of the Senate’s obscure rules, Byrd wore many hats during his lifetime, including that of Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan. What are the job responsibilities of an Exalted Cyclops?

He presides over the Council of the Centaurs and writes quarterly reports to the Grand Giant. In the Klan hierarchy, each local chapter, or Klavern, is led by an Exalted Cyclops. This member is typically elected by his fellow Klansmen and serves a one-year term. According to the original 1867 Prescript of the Ku Klux Klan, the Exalted Cyclops reports to a Grand Giant, or provincial leader; a Grand Dragon, or state director; and the Grand Wizard, or national chair. Below the Cyclops on the org chart were the Grand Magi, the Grand Monk, the Grand Exchequer, the Grand Turk, and, finally, the rank-and-file members known as Ghouls or Knights. (Many of these titles have changed over time, and most of the sub-Cyclops ranks have been eliminated.) The Exalted Cyclops’ responsibilities include presiding over Klavern meetings, initiating new members, and appointing Councils of Centaurs—that’s Klan-speak for a jury—to try and punish wayward Ghouls.‘

I suppose we’ll be seeing West Virginia making some serious name changes next week, right?

FYI-Yes, calling Slate conservative is parody.


87 posted on 09/08/2021 4:19:08 PM PDT by bigfootbob (ALL Biden VOTERS have BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS….Ann Archy)
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To: Altura Ct.

Government education brainwashing the idiots we see today


88 posted on 09/08/2021 4:25:57 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: algore

And everyone lived happily ever after.


89 posted on 09/08/2021 4:26:38 PM PDT by unixfox (aY for it.Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: DoodleDawg
“Here's a link to the site: Source”

Interesting reference to the Lee's but I didn't see anything suggesting that Robert E. Lee ever purposefully acquired slaves of his own.

Not sure that it matters. Whatever Lee's association with slavery it did not disqualify him in the eyes of the Great Emancipator who unsuccessfully recruited Lee to attack people in the South.

When that did not work for Lincoln he turned to others who had associations with slavery to do the work. Grant comes to mind.

90 posted on 09/08/2021 4:35:34 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: 2big2fail

“Lee did not own slaves, did he??”

Was that Kool Aid your favorite flavor?

Why does that matter? Slavery existed on this earth in almost every society since the dawn of history.

It was the United States and England who rid the world of most of it.

Lee happened to be born into a world that sanctioned slavery. He fought for his state, not slavery.


91 posted on 09/08/2021 4:37:43 PM PDT by odawg
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To: algore
... as Richmond's Democrat Robert E. Lee monument is removed after 131 years and CUT IN HALF like we should do to all other Democrats

There, fixed it for ya.

92 posted on 09/08/2021 4:59:39 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: DoodleDawg; 2big2fail

“Lee did not own slaves, did he??” “He did for most of his life, both his own and those his wife was given or inherited.”

This isn’t accurate, but no surprise considering the source.

If he had owned slaves they would show up in census records. You don’t see DoodleDawg posting those records. Guess why.

Lee’s mother Ann owned six slaves at the time of her death in 1829. Ann listed the slaves she bequeathed to her daughter. There is no record of her bequeathing any to Lee or his two older brothers. In 1829 Lee had just graduated from West Point to begin his Army career.

Lee was an Army officer the majority of his life. He moved around the country, didn’t own a farm, had no need for slaves, and there is no record of him buying any. If there was a record of any you’d sure be seeing their names.

His wife, the g-grandaughter of Martha Washington, inherited her father’s slaves and property upon his death in 1857. Her father’s will made Lee the executor of the estate, and instructed Lee to emancipate the slaves within five years of GW Parke Custis’ death. The Arlington estate was in debt, and the debtors could claim the slaves if the debts were not paid off. So they weren’t freed right away, but were by 1862 when the debts were extinguished. A year before Lincoln’s emancipation order.


93 posted on 09/08/2021 5:02:57 PM PDT by Pelham (No more words, now we fight)
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To: algore

When does Year “0” (Zero) start?


94 posted on 09/08/2021 5:05:47 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: Altura Ct.

>>This is a travesty. Anyone who thinks it stops with Lee or the confederacy is clueless.<<

Absolutely correct. Once all the Southern monuments to brave Confederates are taken down, they will come for even more historical monuments.

This isn’t about the South, it is about erasing American history so they may revise it, pervert it and brainwarsh the young with marxism, communism or what the hell ever ism.

I honestly never thought this day would come.


95 posted on 09/08/2021 5:20:53 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Skywise

Just thought of something.

They can now make the Confederate statues wildly popular again. Use them all in the magician-cutting-the-statue-in-half Las Vegas magic shows. Bigger draw than Wayne Newton or the Blue Man Group.


96 posted on 09/08/2021 5:23:34 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: amorphous

>>...how much blood shall He demand be paid for that spilled by the abortionist’s scalpel from sixty-five million innocents?!<<

Have mercy Lord God...Mercy on our nation! Raise up leaders who turn their faces toward you Father. Restore this nation.
For the sake of Your Son’s sacrifice.


97 posted on 09/08/2021 5:24:03 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: servantboy777

Sad but also enraging for later pushback. Not now.


98 posted on 09/08/2021 5:24:55 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: algore

First they got rid of the Confederate Flag because it was a Reminder Of Slavery. So were the monuments, of course, so they got rid of them, too. Then the old movies. Then the old books. They wiped out everything connected to your heritage and your history.

When it was all gone you asked, “Is that enough? Are there any other Reminders Of Slavery that we have to get rid of?”

And they said, “Yes. You.”


99 posted on 09/08/2021 5:40:54 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: algore

This is so sad. I don’t even want to see pics.


100 posted on 09/08/2021 5:47:17 PM PDT by MarMema
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