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Richmond’s massive Robert E. Lee statue removed from pedestal on Monument Avenue
« on: September 08, 2021, 02:49:52 pm »
Richmond’s massive Robert E. Lee statue removed from pedestal on Monument Avenue
NBC12, Sep 8, 2021

RICHMOND, Va. (AP/WWBT) - History was made in Richmond Wednesday as one of the country’s largest Confederate monuments came down on the city’s famous Monument Avenue.

The 21-foot-tall bronze statue of Robert E. Lee on a horse was hoisted off its 40-foot pedestal, 131 years after it was erected in the former capital of the Confederacy as a tribute to the Civil War leader.

While many saw the statue as an offensive glorification of the South’s slave-holding past, public officials had long resisted its removal, along with residents of Virginia who argued moving the monument would be akin to erasing history.

Governor Ralph Northam announced intentions last year to remove Lee from the state-owned property. Last week, he finally won the right to take it down after more than a year in litigation.

Northam issued the following statement after the Robert E. Lee Monument was officially removed:

“After 133 years, the statue of Robert E. Lee has finally come down—the last Confederate statue on Monument Avenue, and the largest in the South. The public monuments reflect the story we choose to tell about who we are as a people. It is time to display history as history, and use the public memorials to honor the full and inclusive truth of who we are today and in the future.”


https://www.nbc12.com/2021/09/08/live-richmonds-massive-robert-e-lee-statue-be-removed-sent-storage/
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« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2021, 03:20:53 pm »
I think the only logical next step is to erase slavery from American history.   These piddling interim steps, while loads of fun, are just not enough to reset the ship of state to its rightful course. :patriot:
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« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2021, 03:23:09 pm »
Governor Blackface is working out his race problems on a statue.  He needs to pay for this circus.
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« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2021, 08:52:34 pm »
Not only removed, they cut it up! Can't put it in storage for when sane minds take over. This is discusting.
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« Reply #9 on: September 08, 2021, 08:57:09 pm »
Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on September 08, 2021, 03:20:53 pm
I think the only logical next step is to erase slavery from American history.   These piddling interim steps, while loads of fun, are just not enough to reset the ship of state to its rightful course. :patriot:

They're not trying to remove slavery from American history, they're trying to make American history *nothing but* slavery; that's what "The 1619 Project" was really all about.
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« Reply #12 on: September 08, 2021, 09:42:41 pm »
No comment.  And its probably best that way.
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« Reply #13 on: September 08, 2021, 09:51:10 pm »
Quote from: HoustonSam on September 08, 2021, 08:57:09 pm
They're not trying to remove slavery from American history, they're trying to make American history *nothing but* slavery; that's what "The 1619 Project" was really all about.
A very good observation.
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« Reply #14 on: September 08, 2021, 09:55:55 pm »
Next up: scrub Lee's record as the highest scoring graduate from West Point.

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« Reply #15 on: September 08, 2021, 10:12:21 pm »



So what next for the Fan?  Do they march down to Hollywood Cemetery and dig up the bodies of Jefferson Davis, Jeb Stuart, and George Pickett?
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« Reply #16 on: September 08, 2021, 10:38:17 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on September 08, 2021, 10:12:21 pm



So what next for the Fan?  Do they march down to Hollywood Cemetery and dig up the bodies of Jefferson Davis, Jeb Stuart, and George Pickett?

Don't put it past them.  They agitated in Memphis until Forrest was exhumed.

But look at the condition of the plinth in the photos above.  It's obvious that neither state nor local government was going to lift a finger to maintain or even protect this statue; they had allowed it to become an object of scorn and obloquy.  I don't like hearing that the statue was cut in half, but it's better that it be removed than left in place simply to be desecrated.
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« Reply #18 on: September 09, 2021, 12:12:42 am »
What a damned cryin shame.  **nononono*
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« Reply #20 on: September 09, 2021, 12:16:07 am »
I look forward to the day when I meet Robert E. Lee in heaven.  And from that moment on, I will never run the risk of meeting any of the people responsible for removing his statue.
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« Reply #21 on: September 09, 2021, 02:20:56 am »
Quote from: HoustonSam on September 09, 2021, 12:15:01 am
Hat tip to former POTUS DJT.

Same here.  My opinion of him just went up 2X.
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« Reply #23 on: September 09, 2021, 06:06:04 pm »
F*** it. Remove Richmond from the face of the earth.

After all, it was the Confederate Capital.

These arses can't dig deep enough.
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« Reply #24 on: September 09, 2021, 06:08:03 pm »
It continues to amaze me how ignorant people in Virginia have become.
Moved here in 1960 from Texas.... what a change.
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