The Lee statue and another of Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson were removed on the same day in July. The city received six proposals from entities interested in taking one of both of them, according to the newspaper.
“Our hope with ‘Swords into Plowshares’ is to create something that transforms what was once toxic in our public space into something beautiful that can be more reflective of our entire community’s social values,” said the center’s executive director, Andrea Douglas. “We’re giving people opportunities to engage with our own narratives and our own histories. This project offers a road map for other communities to do the same.
The Black-led heritage center’s news release also said that a “community engagement process” will inform the public art project, for which $590,000 has already been raised. The council voted only on the disposition of the Lee statue Tuesday morning, the newspaper reported. Its removal this summer came more than five years after racial justice activists renewed a push to take down it down, drawing opposition from racist groups that culminated in the deadly 2017 rally.
Well, it's about damn time.
Just thinking about racist Trump supporters reading this... lmao 😆
I bet they hate this
Sickening
Here's an idea:
Will it be a statue of James Brown?
Disappointed it’s not being placed on a civil war battle field. Destroying it seems like the not correct concept of CRT in reverse.
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Cue other meltdowns
Whatever...just disappear👊🇺🇸
Stick lots of cameras up for the inevitable MAGA inspired vandalism sure to follow.
And racism magically disappeared the next day…
Well how old is the statue? If new, no big deal. If old, i.e. historic, they both belong in a museum.
This happen million the years ago.!!! About 11,500 to be more Precise…! Just take a look at the remains of Egypt temples with no head no interesting don’t you think
Ukraine has the Motherland Statue with an old soviet symbol on it. While they out law the symbol, they keep it on the statue to never forget what it means. dontforgethistory
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Very cool
Bullshit!!
Erasing heritage and history 1 statue at a time. A statue that barely gets looked at. Just to satisfy the cancel culture
this is a tragedy
Fact error. Photo is of Richmond statue.
One by one!
Want to take a symbol down, change the name of Dulles airport. Read the book The Brothers.
Melt it down and turn it into a civil war memorial. Create a statue that incorporates the cause of the war and the lessons learned from it while honoring all of the lives lost. It doesn’t matter if they disagreed, everyone that died was an American.
Good
It belongs in a Museum...(Indiana Jones)
That statue is art whether you like it or not. Put it in a warehouse, a museum, but melt it down? That's just flat out wrong no matter how you feel about it.
Free Blacks owned slaves in a dynamic in which/witch they could be purchased in every race in an international trafficking dynamic along with indentured servitude and fought to keep slavery… Why melt that down? African royals were in cahoots and it is how they sold their own.
If you don’t respect the history of others, don’t expect others to respect your history.
This is the very definition of a pyrrhic victory.
RichardTuffin Bloody tragic rider too
I would’ve preferred it being put in a museum, but I guess this is nice too. Whatever gets the “muh heritage” people bent out of shape.
Never mind the increase in homicide rates, this is true justice!
Make it a statue of Jussie Smollett.
Good NowTakeDownStatuesOfSlaveOwners
That statue is apart of American's History. It should be put in a museum! Don't try and rewrite the past! You can't. Pave a better future. Do right by American's but don't take something that's painful and erase it. We need to remember our mistakes. So we dont make them again.
That's bull crap.
The racists complaining about this are hilarious
More woke bullshit. When does it stop? You can’t learn from the past if you erase it.
Brass toilets with a piece of his face in the bowl of each one? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 JoyAnnReid
Save the horse! 🐴
US will never amount to anything like the ancient civilizations who have statues from multiple time periods, etc. US can't even hold ones from a few hundred. We're infants civilizational wise and already destroying ours. piss ants. a country of piss ants.
Good decision
I get 'it' but this statue should be preserved as history.
pittiful pittiful hes a big part of america and should remain so.but the marxist in america want george floyd statue put up.
1finekitty Strange but do any of these ppl who think this is 'erasing history' . think; Germany does not have to keep any symbols or so-called statues to know about their history; bcz it's well documented. American history does NOT need a statue of a traitor anywhere but in history books.
Hey has anyone seen that statue of Adolf Hitler we put up we got to make sure we take that son-of-a-b**** down
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Need to find every single statue created for confederates aka American nazis and destroy them. WhiteHouse hmm .... if you want to right the course of American history do not allow glorified statues of traitors of the Republic and white nationalists to stand on American soil.
Wow in 30-50 years what will they say about all the statues if criminals?
Y’all better be careful with your trying it Erase history, because if you do history just might repeat itself. History is there so we don’t make the same mistakes again.
I love it.
AdNauseum Say, once the art is finished, give a price on it's removal& meltdown,ok?
Because we don't like our history we just hide it and/or get rid of it?
Well. Isn't that wonderful. Woke run amuk.
That's Borderline Blasphemy!!!... 'Nuff said!!!...
oh my god who fucking cares, the country is dying
Now idk about this one. Take it out of the park so Black ppl don’t have to walk by it every day and throw it in a museum. It shouldn’t be lost on us that this country spent money to erect statues in public places of losers to intimidate Black people. It is history.
Bring it to the Ozark Mountains where people still enjoy history not erase history.
about time
Should be in a museum, not destroyed.
Oh. My fault. I guess destroying a statue will change history. It must be a statue time machine. I get it now. Thanks.
Violent protests over a Civil War statue? Really
Imagine being so fragile to get offended by civil war statues 🤷🏻♂️
So many people will be able to sleep at night for the first time in their life now
Lee's Confederate statue will be melted down but when will the nation's heart be melted or will it become more of a steel. Every day some racist without a soul calls for murder and Nathan.
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Lol will that make everyone happy Melt it for shitty art
Good idea
Yeah.... no. This has gone too far. I am all for not giving these statues a prominent space on parks and public buildings, but melting statues that are actually part of history? They should be kept elsewhere. History can't be erased, and should not be ignored, but rather learnt.
Technically, a decent number of current African Americans' ancestors lost the Civil War in their country, which led to them being sold to the Europeans as slaves. What's the year cap on people who are called losers vs. when they're called victims?
Poor Charlottesville has to smelt General Lee down for profit.
They should mix in a batch of tears from the Daughters of the Confederacy.
I'm not Confederate fan or slavery supporter, but melt history Like Elizabeth I signed decapitation of her cousin and legal heir to England crown, Mary Stuart. When James inherited, he built his decapitated mother tomb right beside Elizabeth
GOOD!!!!
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