Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam ordered the Richmond statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee taken down last summer, citing the pain felt across the country over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis after a white police officer pressed a knee into his neck. But until a recent court ruling cleared the way, Northam’s plans had been tied up in litigation.
The statue’s removal was expected to be completed Wednesday. Plans called for it to be cut into at least two pieces and hauled to an undisclosed state-owned facility until a decision is made about its final disposition. The pedestal is to remain for the time being, although workers are expected to remove decorative plaques and extricate a time capsule on Thursday.
A previous wave of resistance to the statues came in 2017 when a rally of white supremacists in the city of Charlottesville erupted into violence. Other Confederate monuments started falling around the country. The changes have remade Monument Avenue, a prestigious residential street lined with mansions and tony apartments, part of which has been designated a National Historic Landmark district. Richmond officials are advancing plans to remove the pedestals and other remnants of the statuary and at least temporarily pave over or re-landscape the sites.
Now learn the truth. Lee was a loser!! The south lost!!! It’s an insult to me and mine!!!
Should’ve kept it up, need to remind everyone how disgustingly racist this country is.
Put Nat Turner up there
If you're getting your history from statues- do better.
Lmfao now a days peoples feelings get hurt so much they remove a statue lmaooo
The American Civil War was not because of the so-called abolition of slavery at all, but because of the choice of culture. General Lee of the South himself opposed slavery, but he was even more opposed to the federal government's deprivation of freedom in the southern states.
'The Confederacy is my heritage!' And destroying the Confederacy is ours.
GH057ayame
Adios monument to hate🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
This is bullshit. You can’t censor history because you find it offensive. You’re only dooming next generations to repeat these mistakes.
Why does nobody mention the slave-holding past of the North... LINCOLN was a slave owner - to be democratic and fair, HIS statues should be removed too... And what about most (if not all) of the ‘founding fathers’... And the early presidents... SecBlinken POTUS SecDef
The most valuable that we have in our live is our history no matter if is good or bad. You can remove all the statues but you cannot erase the History. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🇺🇸
This is sad news and it is not going to unite the USA but create more friction.
Court battle Over a statue? From the party of “tort reform” 😂
Because it is...
He fought to preserve human bondage, so there should be no statue of him. It was erected in 1890, as a symbol of continued white rule. Another reason to remove it.
Still my favorite general even if he fought though the south
Let's do the same for statues that were put up for criminals.
I'm offended
so instead of the Smithsonian American History Museum let's change it to the 'only politically correct moments' in America from the 1700s. SICKENING MAKING ME PUKE , maybe you all should go to Rome Italy petition against the Coliseum & the Julius emperor statues
You're literally wiping out America's history.These aren't laws or constitutions you're taking down- changing,these are statues of HISTORY. AMERICA'S THE GOOD & BAD. I pray for the Smithsonian History Museum-you all going in there to take out the 'baddies'
Why are they doing this. It is a part of this country’s history. They are trying to erase our history. We shouldn’t erase it because it was bad, we need to learn from it.
They should not have removed that robert e lee statue because thats represents history of years fighting for equal rights to abolish slavery. The court should really rethink there decision about removing the state but i guess thats just how the court decision making works nowdays
Long live confederacy and the memory of Robert e Lee - every statue street boat song will always be in my heart and those of us who our history belongs too you can’t take that away b’s
They should put up a 30 foot statue 0f Barack 0bama on top of that empty pedestal.
The Emancipation Proclamation: Rejoin the union and pay us taxes OR we’ll free your slaves.
Nothing will change because of this. The Virginia Supreme Court caved to liberal progressive political pressure.
This should immediately create world peace. I thought it would happen when we removed a picture from pancake syrup but this should do it.
Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it
A victory for ignorance
“Many consider”? How about it just is?
Lee was the American Rommel. Fuck’m.
Question for those who think this erases history: What exact history does this actually erase?
I understand the want to it’s removal, Id put it in a Civil War museum for people fascinated with the American Civil War and all the stuff that came with it
Let’s not erase history. Let’s put all 21 feet of his statue into a museum and hang next to it a 21 foot portrait of Gordon. No, Lee did not whip Gordon directly, but his heroics were to keep a slave culture that allowed Capt. John Lyon’s overseer, Artayou Carrier, to do so.
Will you guys report on the real story here?
Of course people think it’s offensive. Maybe the BLM protesters instead of protesting should get a job
Fragile supremacists must be triggered...
Truth_Hz_Donut
Replace it with a statue of Neil Armstrong. Or a statue of Albert Einstein or any other human who has made or created something to advance humanity. Stop making statuses of military personnel. Leave their names for history textbooks, that’s plenty recognition.
aaronlmorrison And many don't. But the 'woke' are in charge.
Y'all remove all of them Robert e Lee monument ? remove Martin Luther King and all the other ones too live them Robert e Lee monument alone
Isn’t that what happens when you lose the war.? 🤦🏼♀️
How am I supposed to learn history now?!?! From books? Pfffffttt facists...
Northam using the art of distraction to remind everyone he didn't dress up as a Klansman in his college days I see. Also how much you wanna bet ppl saying history belongs in books don't read books nor do they realize said books can be burned
LeeLostAgain
They should remove all street signs and statues of Martin luther King ,that offends millions because it is a movement that is a reminder of a racial uprising and world wide violence,reverse racial stigma,BLM and altifa. Also the Black panthers,etc. Whites and other ethnic groups,
ANOTHER racist tweet from about this statue? Really? 'Many consider?' Wtf. Others considered it what... a really cool tribute to slavery?
Put the statue in a museum. That's where relics of the past belong; so they can be framed under proper context and conditions.
“Many”? Try using “it is” instead.
Years ago, a racist moved to the Ville. He tried to sell his hate here but the Ville didn't buy it. He moved to Richmond. Can't imagine what he's been doing. When I found out what he was, I refused to be in the same bldg w/him.
BREAKING: Crews using a crane have hoisted an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee off the giant pedestal where it has towered over Virginia’s capital city for more than a century.
Throw it in the ocean. It would make for a great reef.
Fuckin ridiculous. Caving to wokeness. Let’s put a common criminals statue there instead. Mean tweets.
Palmyra 2.0!
Bout fucking time
Many consider the statue a reminder of the past so that perhaps it won’t be repeated.
“Many consider….” It just is.
Thank goodness
They were traitors. Based on the basic definition of the word. I don’t understand the tone of this headline.
Traitors don’t deserve statues!RobertELee
hahahaha … “many”
Because it...is. Seriously, you realize you guys aren't legally required to coddle the feelings of racists, right?
You guys just can’t get these tweets right
AS IF YOU CAN ERASE REALITY. DENY FACTS, AND YOUR LIFE IS A LIE.
Don’t understand how republicans can be so hell bent over keeping “critical race theory” out of school but at the same time fight to keep the racist confederacy statues up
They should erect a statue of a big giant injection needle so we can all be reminded of who we are enslaved by today in America. The plaque can simple read: Rx. America the Drugged, formerly free & brave.
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