Rev. Robert Lee IV, descendent of Robert E. Lee said: “If I can change, you can too.”RICHMOND, Va. -- Work crews on Tuesday took down a monument to Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, the third major statue to be cleared away in less than a week as the Confederacy's former capital rushes to remove symbols of oppression in response to protests against police brutality and racism.
The Stuart statue was installed on Richmond's Monument Avenue in 1907, a time when white leaders across the South sought to glorify the ‘lost cause’ of the Civil War and suppress attempts by Black people to assert their equality. Inscriptions on the base are filled with tributes to Stuart, who was fatally wounded by a Union soldier and died at age 31 on May 12, 1864.The Stuart monument is one of several targeted by protesters in Richmond since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis prompted nationwide demonstrations. Police declared an unlawful assembly on June 21 after protesters tried to pull it down with ropes.
And next step do the sorros kneeling OMG
Take the man off the horse and put the horse back! But the far left would burn the horse as they did the elk in Portland
Y'all can come put that in my yard.
Meanwhile . . .
What happened to freedom of speech and expression, i guess we have to run it by the terrorist organization blm
Put it in my front yard. It’s pretty cool. Fuck the HOA.
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What happen when this was covered by art ?
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Couldn't they take whoever that is off and leave the horse? He didn't do anything wrong and it's a beautiful sculpture of a horse.
Good
Thats how they'll have to drag dementia donnie out of the Whitehouse
DerenicByrd Let freedom ring. Independence Day🙏🏼🙏🏽🕊
150 yrs after they lost. Better late than never
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High horse
smh Allowing uneducated, ignorant, 'woke', crazy GenZ kids to have their way.
So it was ok to have these statues up but when race became an issue, they all had to be removed?
China, South Korea, and North Korea must be careful of the Chinese that originated in the super-corona virus.
Can I have on my front lawn please ,
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Bye bye Jeb
Civil War never happened. Blacks were never enslaved. No one can prove it. What’s the fuss?
Good riddance
This is the right away to do it. Richmond should have done this long ago. ConfederateStatues should NEVER have been put up in the first place. They were intended to terrorize black people during JimCrow— and they celebrated traitors who spit on the ideals of the Framers.
'Confederacy's former capitOl'.... way to keep stoking....
$1,000 that shows the world that this is still functioning...... ........everybody has a cell phone..... .......show us that she’s still with us.... 🍻
BS! I'm strongly anti-racism and strongly pro-history! Is removing statues going to erradicate racism?
Proud folks in the south won’t get it, but to more people than they want to admit, these monuments are as bad as a monument to hitler. So keep your graven images behind a wall for your own pleasure. They’re not for everyone’s eyes. We can’t have them anymore.
They should make bullets out of it marked “in case they rise again”. Just like the founding fathers did to king George’s statue.
sherrilee7 Shame they couldn’t leave just the horse. Pretty.
What used to be there daddy? I don't know something historical.
Alright Confederate statues down. Can people stop being murdered now?
If you're going to remove all the Civil War history from Virginia, then unless you have relatives there, there really isn't a reason to visit Virginia 🤔...
Are the Democrats on there way to ISIS fame? Our party has lost it mind
Robert E Lee still stands 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wel wait a second. Now I’m questioning if we even had a Civil War in the first place. I suppose we’ll never know now that these statues are being removed 🤷♂️
And now the riots are over?
History will rewrite our fuck ups now.
Yeah NY, Chicago are doing a great job protecting its Citizens by defunding the police, hatred towards all police! Children shot dead, numerous others shot dead! It's not going to stop with incompetent Democrat Mayors,Governors, City Counsil!
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. 'By May the tenth, Richmond had fell It was a time I remember, oh, so well' -The Band
Since Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy, BLM has no choice but to burn the entire city to the ground. Move the state capital to West Virginia.
it's time these Jim Crow Era relics be removed. people that keep defending them don't know the actual history behind them. if they spent a little more time researching them , than melting like snowflakes they would understand why they needs to be removed and placed in a museum.
Union wins war: Confederates bad. Civil rights movement: Confederates good. Police brutality: Confederates bad again.
In US and UK animals are treated better than human beings! Humanitarian catastrophe!
Why is this being allowed! These people should be jailed! Be very afraid of what will replace your history !! Are there now leaders left in America
2/2: Now she is associated with BLM GLOBAL FOUNDATION *(she is vice chairwoman of the board of directors forBLM) which is also with THOUSAND CURRENT GROUP who are MARXISTS & ANARCHISTS : DEMS CAPITULATED TO BLM
1/2: PRESIDENT CLINTON PARDONED SUSAN ROSENBERG before he left office.. LOW & BEHOLD she was supposed to be in PRISON FOR 58 years for possessing 600 LBS OF DYNAMITE & SUB MACHINE GUN! *(she was a member of a communist group & traveled to Cuba to help Fidel)
WWIII in USA, 'Black lives matter' is doing more damages than WWII.
It feels like the Berlin Wall... after a few bricks were removed, it collapsed very quickly.
bring them all down
If we remove all Logo's, Statutes, Names of sport teams or of the past. Who will ask of them, what they did, what happened to them. And, for the American Indian why do they need protection. 'A Nation That Forgets Its Past Is Bound To Repeat It'
Nothing more than another traitor to the USA. All soldiers of confederacy that took up arms against the US committed treason. No place for monuments for them, don’t ever forget them, but not honorably.
Na na na na! Na na na na! Hey hey hey, good-bye! ✌🏻
New General Rule: No statues for people who committed treason or participated in human trafficking.
But we don't touch the real terrorists including BLM
Anyone know how much was paid for the statue? Inquiring minds.
Next they will remove the church in the background. I do not believe in slavery. Every race that is in this country has had slaves. So take down everything from all of races. Not just one race. If not. Stop what you are doing.
That’s ok because all them statues will be back In their rightful places .
'In communist society, the present dominates the past' Marx.
Please stop erasing history
Just here to check in on the butt-hurt racists in the comments.
To get a pretty good idea what the citizens of Richmond thought about the Confederate leaders, Google 'bread riot'.
this should’ve happened ages ago
Democrats want to erase their own history
Adios traitor.
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ThisWeekABC cnnbrk Just a reminder that it is 2020 and there still has never been a woman president of any color and men of all colors are still paid higher wages than a woman of any color in the same position.
10 years hard time for removing statues, says the Tramp. File the paperwork, says the city clerk. Who you gonna believe?
Yeh let’s erase all proof of our shady past. 👍🏻
Still waiting to see the statue of Racist SenateDems Senator and Klan leader Robert KKK Byrd removed. Any word on that?
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Just dont quite understand these people behind all of this , what are you benefiting from removal of statues that sit harmlessly and not saying a word to anyone it's a beautiful art work by a skilled craftsmen that should be praised for his work , people you need to grow up
Should put all the statues on a Trump golf course!
Imagine being a White supremacist &working on this field &having 2remove the statues yourself per a mandate. I mention it, because things hold the values WE give them; morality &historical facts provide a framework for those values!. ALL things “confederate” must go
Where do they put all these statues they take down ?
katiecouric About damn time!!! Next!!! Mt. Rushmore gt those favs down and put up pictures of native. Americans.. the ones who this land was stolen from in the first place!!
Put them in a museum but that's it.
Criminal ambulance man’s actions during Floyd’s killing..this proves that it was a deliberate crime..as clearly shown in the video..the aim of moving the United States Street..to relieve pressure on China..and create problems for the Trump administration before the elections.
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