America's largest Confederate statue is
removed: Richmond's Robert E. Lee
monument comes down in victory
for BLM and will now be sent to
Goochland Women's Correctional Center
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Jennifer Smith
&
Michelle Thompson
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
9/8/2021 10:28:36 AM
America's largest Confederate statue - the 12-ton bronze statue of Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee - was removed from its pedestal in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday morning to the sound of 'black lives matter' chants and crowds singing 'Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye' in the latest victory for BLM. The 21ft bronze statute of Lee atop a horse will now be sent to the Goochland Women's Correctional Center in Virginia until officials know what to do with it permanently. It is the latest Confederate statue to have been toppled by the BLM movement amid protest from white residents who thought it should be preserved in history.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
unagator 9/8/2021 10:47:30 AM (No. 907818)
As a Virginian, I think the cringetastic woke time capsule bothers me more than the statue coming down.
At least we can look forward to the Lee statue being replaced by some grotesque piece of modern garbage that the gentile denizens of Monument Avenue will praise publicly but gripe about in private.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ladyhawke 9/8/2021 10:50:41 AM (No. 907820)
I object to any historical artifacts, good and bad, being removed.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
FunOne 9/8/2021 10:58:04 AM (No. 907826)
A very Taliban-like act of vandalism by the Governor of Virginia and his woke friends.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Nimby 9/8/2021 10:58:50 AM (No. 907828)
The white Supremacist with the black face
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
felixcat 9/8/2021 11:27:08 AM (No. 907845)
Yeah, all those outages blacks an now relax with the removal of this statute. Too bad the same outraged blacks weren't offended by having a governor who ran around in college in blackface and wearing a KKK outfit.
22 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
terrywhite 9/8/2021 11:28:32 AM (No. 907849)
I despise anyone who stands with BLM and works to provide them a victory such as this. It is a travesty that Robert E. Lee, one of Virginia's favorite sons, should be dishonored in this way all because a bunch of perpetually ignorant morons who don't even know how to pull their pants up makes a loud, squeaky noise. To bow to this is the definition of cowardice.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 9/8/2021 11:47:39 AM (No. 907864)
White people still running the black lives thing.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 9/8/2021 11:50:56 AM (No. 907867)
What is this going to solve when these illiterate rubes can't spell their own names and for certain don't know any American history.
The statue warriors with help from stupid woke whites will not be satisfied with just this. It's a war against common America loving people by a minority with loud mouths. Robert E. Lee is Virginia and the state should be ashamed for doing this bending to a noisy stupid crowd of BLM.
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And will this make ANYBODY'S life better? Will it lower the crime rate? The poverty rate? Will it inspire even one black yoot to maybe stay in school and not join a gang? Or to start having babies and going on welfare at 15?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 9/8/2021 12:01:35 PM (No. 907880)
They will pay the price, in this life or the next.
MAGA
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Ribicon 9/8/2021 12:18:27 PM (No. 907887)
In 1870, speaking of Reconstruction, Lee told former Confederate Governor of Texas Fletcher Stockdale, “Governor, if I had foreseen the use those people designed to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; no sir, not by me. Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in my right hand.”
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Ribicon 9/8/2021 12:21:28 PM (No. 907892)
British Field Marshal Viscount Sir Garnet Wolseley: "…I believe all will admit that General Lee towered far above all men on either side… he will be regarded as the great American of the 19th century, whose statue is well worthy to stand on an equal pedestal with Washington, and whose memory is worthy to be enshrined in the hearts of all his countrymen." George Washington owned more than 300 slaves, far more than General Lee's wife had owned. Give it a few years and the Father of Our Country will be hauled down, too. It's what the communists promised to do years ago, all proceeding apace.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
raspberry 9/8/2021 12:23:09 PM (No. 907893)
Do these grossly ignorant fools now want to replace the statue of the great Robert E. Lee with a George Floyd mural?
I will bet they will try if Virginia elects a Yankee progressive carpet bagger governor in November.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TarAndFeathers 9/8/2021 12:45:17 PM (No. 907911)
And from stage left, here comes Terrible McAwful to occupy the Vandal’s Mansion in the Vandal City, likely to parade down Vandal’s Alley, formerly Monument Avenue, leading a retinue of Taliban vandals. Richmond sucks!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/8/2021 12:55:35 PM (No. 907918)
How many of the black demonrat voters who demand that all these statues be removed are aware that every one of the people memorialized by them was a democrat? How can blacks keep voting for the very party which enslaved their ancestors?
(Rhetorical questions - we all know the answers - free stuff and ignorance)
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
skacmar 9/8/2021 12:58:14 PM (No. 907919)
The list of things going into the new time capsule sounds like a bunch of PC trash that someone picked up off the floor after a SJW Conference. Who cares about most of that junk going into the capsule except the BLM and LGBTQ activists. People of the future will look at the capsule and think: WOW, how did these people ever survive all of this craziness?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
skacmar 9/8/2021 1:03:24 PM (No. 907925)
HEY BLM AND BLACK ACTIVISTS: History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it. And if it offends you, even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it. It's not yours to erase or destroy! I did not make this up but it sure applies to your attempts to destroy everything that "offends" you (which seems to be everything).
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
red1066 9/8/2021 2:07:06 PM (No. 907978)
The Confederate White House is on the grounds of VCU hospital in Richmond. It's surrounded by several tall hospital buildings. I guess out of sight, out of mind. I keep wondering what are the woke idiots planning on doing about that?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Highlander 9/8/2021 2:23:56 PM (No. 907994)
“ The new capsule contains 39 'artifacts' including a BLM sticker, a 'Virginia is for lovers' Pride sticker, an expired COVID vaccine and pictures from a Stop Asian Hate Protest.” If found a hundred years from now (assuming there will be an extant USA) it most likely would go straight to the trash can where it belongs.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
TLCary 9/8/2021 4:01:14 PM (No. 908050)
1856: “slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil in any Country” - Robert E. Lee
1862: Robert E. Lee filed a deed of manumission that freed the last of the slaves at the plantations he had inherited. 150 in total.
This was exploitation of ignorance for political gain, and it worked.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Blue Hen1 9/8/2021 4:10:07 PM (No. 908054)
They took down Cesar Rodney and Christopher Columbus here in Wilmington , De and shootings and murders have escalated
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Birddog 9/8/2021 5:46:14 PM (No. 908134)
Who else tears down statues? Taliban...ISIS...ISIL...DAESH...HUNS...MONGOLS....MAO...
They ought to place a Gi-Normous George Floyd face in it's place...then force the people to live with it until a more aesthetic generation finally arrives.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Petronius 9/8/2021 6:27:04 PM (No. 908194)
BLM is no better than the Taliban.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
JimBob 9/9/2021 12:33:44 AM (No. 908439)
BLM = Butt-Licking Morons.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/9/2021 4:26:05 AM (No. 908500)
The joke is on BLM. Patrice Cullars still has most of their donations and she isn't sharing the money meant for the inner city underprivileged.
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