A friend was sitting on his porch in Charlottesville this morning and got to witness one final retreat pic.twitter.com/0y6HlaB8Oa
— Clyde McGrady (@CAMcGrady) July 10, 2021
Good to see them taking not just Lee, but also the horse he rode in on.
— Emma Ashford (@EmmaMAshford) July 10, 2021
Can someone put the sad violin tune from Ken Burns’ civil war over this
— PopehatIsStateAction (@Popehat) July 10, 2021
put it on the uss carl vinson and drop it in the arabian sea https://t.co/quQNQP1gkj
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) July 10, 2021
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Four years after a woman was killed and dozens were injured when white nationalists protested the planned removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Va., workers removed the statue on Saturday, along with a nearby monument to Stonewall Jackson, another Confederate general.
The larger-than-life-sized statue of Lee was hoisted off its granite base shortly after 8 a.m. as a crowd of about 200 looked on. As the flatbed truck carrying the bronze statue rumbled down East Jefferson Street, a toot of the truck’s horn prompted cheers and applause…
John Edwin Mason, a history professor at the University of Virginia, scurried around the perimeter of the park as the removal of the Lee statue was underway to keep a close eye on the proceedings. “I’m really happy it’s a boring morning, and boring means that no bad things happened,” he said, adding, “The ordinariness of this occasion is fine.”…
Mike Signer, an author and lawyer who was a city councilor and mayor when the “Unite the Right” rally was held in 2017, called the removal “a real step forward.” He said the statues had become “totems for these terrorists.”
“In so many ways, Charlottesville was a microcosm for what’s happened in the country: the advent of flagrant, open, violent white nationalism in public streets,” he said. “The ‘Unite the Right’ rally was clearly a prologue for the insurrection on Jan. 6.”…
President Biden, who has said that Charlottesville inspired him to run for president, also welcomed the removal of the statues, according to a spokeswoman, Emilie Simons. “The President believes that monuments to Confederate leaders belong in museums, not in public places,” Ms. Simons said…
as long as there are people willing to drop 50 stacks on a vineyard wedding, i am sure charlottesville’s tourism industry will survive losing some confederate statues
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) July 10, 2021
How it started How its going pic.twitter.com/DO42IX5KRK
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) July 10, 2021
The Confederate Army keeping up its long tradition of losing in Virginia. https://t.co/bSoEAEu0AF
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) July 10, 2021
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