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Confederate Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson statues in Charlottesville officially removed
Fox News ^ | 10 July 2021 | Audrey Conklin

Posted on 07/10/2021 7:33:14 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo

The city of Charlottesville, Virginia, officially removed its statues of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson on Saturday.

Viewing areas for the removal of the statues were erected so that bystanders could watch cranes lift the statues from their plinth blocks; the process was nearly complete just before 9 a.m.

Photos and videos posted to social media show a crowd gathered to watch the process on Saturday morning.

Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker spoke at Saturday's gathering, calling the removal "one small step forward" in an effort to dismantle White supremacy, according to VPM reporter Ben Paviour.

Initial plans to remove the Lee statue came about in 2016, prompting White supremacists and other extremist groups to use the monument as a focal point for events such as the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally.

The statues will be held on Charlottesville property until they are sold, according to a Thursday press release from the city.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bidensfault; blacksupremacy; nikkisfault; obamasfault
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Disgraceful. Next target: the Founding Fathers.
1 posted on 07/10/2021 7:33:14 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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Trying to erase history and the men who made it.


2 posted on 07/10/2021 7:36:42 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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DemonicRATS continue to whitewash their racist history.


3 posted on 07/10/2021 7:37:08 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

this is racism, against a group of people
who DO NOT DESERVE it.


4 posted on 07/10/2021 7:37:19 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: Mr. Mojo

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3974928/posts


5 posted on 07/10/2021 7:38:29 AM PDT by deport ( )
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To: Bulwyf

The Western Taliban roll on unabated with their destruction of history that doesn’t conform to their ideological dogma.


6 posted on 07/10/2021 7:38:59 AM PDT by sarge83
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Democrats = American Taliban


7 posted on 07/10/2021 7:39:49 AM PDT by aomagrat (Brains have been washed. Wheels have been greased. Fear has been mongered.)
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To: sarge83

Even some people on the left are turning on this. I don’t think it’s going to go the way in which they think it will.


8 posted on 07/10/2021 7:39:58 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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Yep. Taking the statues down will definitely change history...you twits!


9 posted on 07/10/2021 7:40:24 AM PDT by econjack
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How many Native Americans did Lee slaughter?
How about Jackson?

Same question: Sherman, Sheridan, Nathaniel Lyon?


10 posted on 07/10/2021 7:41:43 AM PDT by tsomer
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Build Trump statues instead.


11 posted on 07/10/2021 7:43:42 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Socialism requires slavery.)
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If they are going to remove these. This is the way to do it rather than having mobs tear them down.


12 posted on 07/10/2021 7:46:49 AM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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Being the BDSholes the woke butches are, then the Holocaust Museums, since they offend the tender sensibilities of Fauxcastinian Tlaib, Brother F***er Omar and all their jihadi comrades in arms🤬


13 posted on 07/10/2021 7:47:07 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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“...White supremacists and other extremist groups ..”

I believe the record will show there were a few “white supremacist” individuals and a larger number of citizens who didn’t want the stature desecrated or moved, there in the park with a permit to meet. Antifa was in the street waiting for them when the mayor canceled the permit and ordered police to move the statue supporters out of the park into the streets where the mob of extremists was waiting for them.

The media can really change the content of a story to suit their own fancy.


14 posted on 07/10/2021 7:47:10 AM PDT by elpadre ( )
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Next target: the Founding Fathers.

Exactly right. That is all I can think of while reading this. And it is going to happen real soon.

15 posted on 07/10/2021 7:50:02 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.” ~ Ronald Reagan)
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Nah, they just want to replace it with a different sort of history. I’m sure there will be calls to replace them with statues of Marx and Engels.


16 posted on 07/10/2021 7:50:40 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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Western Taliban, indeed.

They will not stop until every vestige of Western Civilization is destroyed or they are stopped (and preferably destroyed).

17 posted on 07/10/2021 7:52:12 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.” ~ Ronald Reagan)
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like they’re any more upstanding in terms of character. Robert E Lee was a very special and conflicted man - but they couldn’t be bothered with such details.


18 posted on 07/10/2021 7:52:14 AM PDT by avital2
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They've already targeted the founders. It's just taking a little longer.

Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker spoke at Saturday's gathering, calling the removal "one small step forward" in an effort to dismantle White supremacy, according to VPM reporter Ben Paviour.

He should resign simply for uttering such nonsense. My Dad and I have ancestors who fought for the Union, but I still suspect that he would be saddened by the removal of these statues, which represent the soldiers, not the slaver politicians.

19 posted on 07/10/2021 7:53:16 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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Lee and Jackson???

Seriously?

That’s like anathema!


20 posted on 07/10/2021 7:54:06 AM PDT by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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