Lewis & Clark-Sacagawea Latest Statue Toppled in Charlottesville

Newsmax ^ | July 11, 2021 | Eric Mack

[Twotone]

Charlottesville, Virginia's cancellation of history and art continued Saturday with an emergency meeting to bring down a statue featuring explorers Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea.

The Charlottesville City Council voted unanimously in a meeting hastily called on 20 minutes notice to take down the explorers after toppling statues of confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson on Saturday.

"I feel that it should just be melted down," a Sacagawea descendant Rose Ann Abrahamson said during the council meeting, The Daily Progress reported. “I feel that it's entirely offensive and it should be obliterated."

Sacagawea was a 16-year-old native American girl who helped Lewis and Clark explore the Louisiana Territory as guide and interpreter. She was a symbol of women's worth and independence for the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

But activists did not like her posture as a tracker in the statue, thinking it made a woman appear subservient.

[devane617]

Dumb asses

[Soul of the South]

“But activists did not like her posture as a tracker in the statue, thinking it made a woman appear subservient.”

No thinking here. Pure emotion driven by ignorance.

[outofsalt]

The Virginia Taliban chapter strikes again!

[ConservativeInPA]

So what injun will they promote? Chief Shed a Tear from the 70’s polution commercial?

[a fool in paradise]

Perhaps this decendent considers Sacagwea to be a “sell-out”

What did she think of the coin?

[Lurkinanloomin]

Thank you Nikki Haley.

[a fool in paradise]

Kamala Harris

[Lurkinanloomin]

Ironically he was an Italian.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Or Nimrata Randhawa.

[ConservativeInPA]

Stupid me ... Liz Warren

[struggle]

It will be replaced by transacagawea

[KosmicKitty]

I never realized that these three were part of the confederacy.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Nikki Haley started this crap even though there was no compelling reason at all. She perpetrated that vandalism on the capitol grounds purely as an act of ambition and self-promotion. Have some curry, Nikki. Don't hide your dot.

[a fool in paradise]

Kerplonk

PING

[a fool in paradise]

Well Native Americans WERE the last people in America to free their slaves.

[Red Badger]

But activists did not like her posture as a tracker in the statue, thinking it made a woman appear subservient.

IDIOTS............................

[Red Badger]

That Italian guy?...................

[monkeyshine]

I’m just having trouble discerning the difference between what these woke-ists are doing and what the Taliban did to the Buddhist statues.

When it comes to art, very much of it is subjective. Some people read into it what was never intended; e.g. how showing Sacajawea as the tracker for 2 white men makes her “subservient” when obviously the roles were reversed. They wouldn’t been lost in the weeds without her. We even minted a Sacajawea dollar coin as I recall.

[monkeyshine]

^would’ve