Robert E. Lee statue on historic Virginia street removed

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Crews take down a 12-ton statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, after the state Supreme Court last week cleared the way for its removal

A pair of rulings from the state Supreme Court last week cleared the way for its removal after intense national debate over the 12-ton statue's purpose and place along the nearly one-mile, tree-lined street in the city that was once the capital of the Confederacy.

"Patrick McSweeney, an attorney for residents along Monument Avenue in one of the lawsuits, told CNN on Tuesday that he had informed the Virginia Supreme Court that he will request a rehearing.Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, a Democrat, on Tuesday countered that the state's high court"stated plainly that the prior injunction pending appeal was dissolved 'immediately.

 

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Take away history whether right or wrong and discover a nation that will never know the difference

Take away history bad or good and take away our reason to understand the difference

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You cannot erase history, no matter what you do. You learn from history and hopefully don’t make the same mistakes from the past. No person should be held accountable for what has happened in the past by others. Common sense.

Remove history, forget history, repeat history. 🙄

Acosta Stupid.

These removals are bullshit. We should preserve history, the country is becoming a shithole!!!!

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They should’ve just blow it up the statue!! It meaning less to millions of Americans!

I think its funny everyone is so upset about this and none of us were even alive yet. Yet we expect people to get over slavery and racism in 1965

To all those saying history is dead, Robert E Lee was against statues and monuments glorifying the Civil war...l learnt that in a history book, maybe you could try learning more and crying less...

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Permission to take Lee down “Granted”

A Consolation Trophy for the losing team. Good riddance.

i will sleep better tonite

Watch tourism drop! No need to visit Richmond, Va. A waste of Virginia's tax payers money to remove!

Erase your past and you are sure to repeat it.

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How about removing the Virginia State supreme court? Cannot erase history.

Waste of money could feat a lot of people!

Good. No traitor should be honored.

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Go pay to see it in a museum. While you're at it stop and see the African american museum of history in dc. It will open your eyes.

Acosta Don't destroy the statue. Instead move it, and others like to a museum that tells the true history of the Civil War and slavery--not some romanticized version of good old Dixie and happy slaves working for massa

Cmon...don't traitors deserve statues?

nobody challenge him when he is alive

Monuments wheather you agree with the topic or not are historical. The monument should be left but a plaque explaining why the person/subject was wrong/bad put up.

This is disgusting. Lee was a just and noble man in VA. Taking him down because his country lost the war.

May he enjoy being housed in a nice, climate controlled museum where people can come to learn about these traitors to our country.

Today the tears of the Racist White Supremacists fill my cup.

It should be melted down and turned into toilet seats.

Lee fought so people could own other people.

👏 We shouldn't put up statues of losers in any war. It keeps some folks thinking the south won & can rise again. It's 1 of the bases for what has happened today in American in a bad way. It would be like putting up statues of the ppl who ran for president & lost. It's ridiculous

What a shame!

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That’s what the books and parents are for. Also, if they have a phone, they have access to it. You don’t need a daily reminder of who the villains to a certain demographic of society were.

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Finally!

Bring it to Alabama I want it !!

Stupid,vote those people out it history good or bad

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Put it in the ocean

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Now USA is 1% less racist

lets just erase all history that's bad because life is nothing but rainbows and happy thoughts.🙄

Good. Way overdue. Put it in a museum.

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thats wack as shit

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So we are removing and/or erasing our history! That is just stupid! Our history formed us, taught us. We have to keep our history present; thus, we do not repeat past mistakes!

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Remove all the British people because of the war we fought to get our freedom. Remove anything that makes.u.unhappy and our history and freedom will be a joke to the entire world

Its such a shame that all you idiots don't realize that without history we will never grow. The people that fought that war are dead and gone. Please don't forget that at that time the world was diffrent. If we erase history just because we don't like it lets get all the Germans

Acosta Ridiculous.

The confederate army… fought for slavery and to succeed from the Union. They fought for hate. They lost. The statues honor slave trading, anti American losers. Some pride🙄 oh, & they were constructed to intimidate blacks during the Civil Rights era.

They're taking down a statue of Christopher Columbus in my hometown and replacing it with an indigenous one.. It makes sense now..

Right, they rewrote the history books for the start of this school year because this statue came down yesterday, hmmm I call bullshit.

The ultimate loser

Great! we can not serve 2 masters

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