Statue of Lewis & Clark and Sacagawea
toppled in Charlottesville
Posted By: Ribicon, 7/10/2021 7:15:26 PM
The city of Charlottesville, Va. followed up its removal of two controversial Confederate statues Saturday with the lightning-fast toppling of a third local landmark: a monumental tribute to explorers Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea. In an emergency meeting called with 20 minutes’ notice, the Charlottesville City Council voted unanimously to cancel another piece of public art targeted by left-wing activists.(Snip) Within minutes, a city work crew—the same group that had dismantled equestrian statues of Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson earlier Saturday—arrived with ropes, a crane, and pry bars to wrench the artwork off the plinth where it had stood
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There are plenty of people calling it an act of God or divine retribution for idolizing a career criminal and drug addict.
My favorites? "White lightning, I presume....."
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school, no in-person shopping' 46 replies
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school, no in-person shopping' 46 replies
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The lightning strike, which hit directly on George Floyd’s face, reduced the mural to a pile of bricks.
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‘The consequences are going to
be unbelievably bad’: Bush slams
Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal 28 replies
be unbelievably bad’: Bush slams
Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal 28 replies
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Bedrock American values right there. White people of great merit on a statue? Not in the land of the free and the home of the brave.