A massive monument to Confederate General Robert E Lee has been now been unceremoniously torn down in Richmond, VA after it became a target for far-left demonstrators during the 2020 George Floyd riots.
As The Daily Wire reports:
The largest Confederate monument display in the United States was removed from public view on Wednesday, over a year after Governor Ralph Northam (D-VA) called for its removal following the death of George Floyd.
The statue, a commemoration to confederate General Robert E. Lee, was unveiled in the 1890s in a field outside Richmond, Virginia. The 21-foot statue features Lee on horseback and sat atop a 40-foot granite base. The whole monument was six stories tall.
Governor Ralph Northan (D-VA) called for its removal last year, saying that we could “no longer honor a system that was based on the buying and selling of enslaved people,” according to Axios.
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“After 133 years, the statue of Robert E. Lee has finally come down—the last Confederate statue on Monument Avenue, and the largest in the South,” said the governor. “The public monuments reflect the story we choose to tell about who we are as a people. It is time to display history as history, and use the public memorials to honor the full and inclusive truth of who we are today and in the future.”
NOW: Crowd chanting “hey hey hey, goodbye” as officials remove the Robert E. Lee Monument in Virginia —
the country’s largest Confederate statue pic.twitter.com/PFswiZCwXM— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 8, 2021
According to Northam’s office the statue will be placed in secure storage until its ultimate fate is determined.
I’m sure that JFK would have enjoyed that interesting, unhinged, rant. Now go take your meds and relax. The men in the white coats will be there soon.
“Their come to take him away Ha Ha , Their coming to take him away Hehe , to the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time and their coming to take Him AWAY HAHA , HOHO , HEHE” 😅😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😅🤣🤣🤣
..And I’ll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats....
CATHOLIC TRAITOR. Sidestep all the way!
You must be a CATHOLIC TRAITOR. Sidestep all the way!
Hey Alfie I see you are not a believer, I think you are a mindless syncopant who HATES religion, well I am a Catholic and I love GUNS, FREEDOM, and am a VETERAN which I believe you are NOT so blow it out your bunghole you are nothing but a HATER.
Thank you for your service.
I am full of LOVE! I love the USA! I love the Constitution of the USA! I love the culture of the USA~! I love the education of the USA! I love the success of the USA. I love Americans! NO Catholic loves the USA. NO Catholic loves the Constitution of the USA. NO Catholic is an American. Catholics are serfs of the Vatican, a foreign, hostile NATION that is at perpetual undeclared war with all other nations. I have peace because I am a patriot to the USA. NO Catholic can say that. Vote for ANY CATHOLIC and you vote for a traitor.
Ps. I did my time in Korea.
Alfie, you are a sick person and your logic is all wrong !!!
You do the CATHOLIC sidestep well! insult, divert or divert then insult…NEVER a response.
Did you hate the catholic church before the altar boy raping priests raped you or was it after the catholic church gave your parents money not to prosecute the altar boy raping priests that raped you and your parents wasted all your money on themself . . . . .
https://stoprape.humboldt.edu/statisticsSexualized Violence Statistics
sidestep the THOUSAND YEARS OF 100% FAILURE…
‘Over there’ they are ILLEGAL ALIEN MUSLIM INVADERS.
NO Catholic is an American, they are CATHOLICS.
In the USA they are ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC “C” INVADERS.
Catholic or Muslim do not ‘integrate’. They are “C” or Muslim NEVER Americans!…
Joe Biden is not Catholic just because he says he is. Pelosi is not Catholic.
Neither actually believe in anything the papists consider to be Church doctrine.
Catholicism remains the religion of convenience for Help-bound politicians because it requires no effort and you will NEVER be called out by ANY form of Church discipline.
I think they really still are Roman Catholics until they are officially excommunicated by someone in authority within the church. Someone said somewhere they are candy-store Catholics and pick and choose the flavor of the week when it comes to their choice as what is to be practiced and believed. I guess if you are a believer there will be a judgement day not by man but by a higher being.
Nah , Their Croco’s you know their like Rhinos only claiming to be Catholic
Biden is just one more CATHOLIC criminal. You are known for the company you keep. You also have to account for Al Capone, Hitler, Pelosi, The Bushes, AOC. Then there is the Mafia, Costa Nostra, MS-13 ANTIFA, Brown shirts of Hitler, and a host of other gangs. And add a third of all elected to the house and senate. You are known for the company you keep. If you associate with criminals, then that is what you are. Vote for ANY of the ‘south of the border’ folks and you will get the corruption, fraud, fixed elections, crime, ignorance, and failure forever that is the record of these folks
A hundred nations, a thousand years and exactly 100% FAILURE. Vote for ANY CATHOLIC and you vote for a traitor.
great
Prove it.
It is CATHOLIC “C” traitors v American patriots? I do not find Alfie “Patriotic” rather Alfie sounds more like a rabid nut. I have never ever seen or heard of a Catholic say be C or be dead. ?????
I do not believe for a minute that you as a so called patriot has served in any service, spoken as a true coward Alfie. Shoving all this drivel about what anyone as you see it do not serve with or have guns is drivel. Mad bruh? get back on your meds, dream that one day you can serve in the armed forces and then lets hear you.
Get some help Alfie
No statues means that slavery never happened. Can’t have it both ways. I never owned any slaves. Were any of you ever a slave? I doubt it. Never happened.
globalists and their demonrat criminal party continue to make us all slaves, the libby snow flake sheep volunteer to be their slaves while AMERICANS fight against slavery .
Communist countries do the same thing. Destroy history – we are under assault. This is another disgusting move by commie Northam. He loves killing babies after they are born! Absolutely horrific!
Ralph “Blackface” Northampton? You got to be f’ing kidding…how dumb can Virginia get? They seem to be wanting to out do themselves every time.
globalist puppet northampton must preach all globalist agendas or they won’t use their voter fraud to reappoint him .
I don’t know who Alfie is but I think the men in the white outfits need to come and get him. I’m a veteran, a strong Republican, I love my Country and would fight to protect it. Oh, I am also a Catholic. Call yourself what you want but I would call you crazy.
He’s just a globalist puppet, libby snow flake sheep preaching globalist agendas .
globalist puppet; demonrat criminal party created slavery and after the republican party abolished slavery the demonrat criminal party created their kkk criminal organisation .
Guess they need to put a statue of George Floyd there. He was the picture of a true American.
😅😂🤣🤣😂😅
HA! HA! HA! HA! He was a thug.
According to D.Lavoie of the Associated Press, the statue of General Robert E.Lee will NOT be put in storage, rather it will be destroyed. In addition the plaque bearing his name will also be destroyed. More importantly, the Time Capsule of 1891 will also b destroyed. Why such a hateful rush to destroy American History.
I think it’s wrong to tear down Robert E Lee statues; it is a part of our history and it also has artistic merit; think of all the hard work that goes into just designing and producing the statue during the turn of the century; they do not make statues in that manner anymore; isnt that worth something? removing a statue doesnt take all that much intelligence , effort or know how; but building one does; instead of tearing down old statues, how about building more today to reflect the changing times and how we have progressed, a contrast between the old and the new?
Absolutely disgusting. Shameful to ruin artwork and history
“Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.”
Sir William Wallace, 1281
Right. And what’s that quote about ‘those who forget their history are doomed to REPEAT it?’ The pathetic Germans just deleted the period of 1933-1945 from their school history books. And now the Republic has been overrun with far-right skinhead goons, and today with far-left goons. They might just repeat history, if not for the fact that they are now also overrun with Muslims galore.
Many statues were erected in the fifties because of segregationist butt hurt and have no sincere meaning.
This one was not. This was out in place as a commemoration leading up to the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil War.
Where’s Joan Baez when we need her?
When we forget our history, we will no longer know where we have been or where we are going! We need to know otherwise how do we improve!
Make sure when you emphasize American ‘history’, that said data is accurate and published without bias.
Instead of trying to revise history, by tearing down part of it, try putting up other statues that also are historic that demonstrate another aspect of the story . Because positive or negative it is what is, our history. If it is not remembered or learned we are doomed to repeat it.
What a shame! I used to live in a suburb of Richmond (for about 3 years). The liberal nonsense just got too unbearable for me (a conservative, catholic), so I sold my condo in Midlothian and moved south to Florida. While there I visited General Lee’s monument more than once. It was simply beautiful and no more reminded me of slavery than any other statue or memorial that since has been defaced by these morons. They are just trying to do away with our history, which today’s young simpletons can’t seem to grasp. The politicians in VA are, for the most part, weirder by the day. Glad to be gone from that cesspool!!
Ronald Reagan said something like: ‘Our liberal friends believe a lot of things which just aren’t so.’
Tore down a monument that belongs to the American people .If these people dont like our heritage rid of the sick bastards they don’t belong here
An American General on the wrong side of the historical fence but still part of U.S. History. Lee and others of his ilk should always be a remembered reflecting how importance Pres. Abraham Lincoln’s well though out “Emancipation Proclamation” was and is historically, socially, and culturally. The concepts and holdings of this righteous instrument are forever out in the sunlight thus radiating the righteousness of freedom and equality and no longer edifying an evil restraint plagued by the pain and suffering enabled and endured through the chains of bondage.
LISTEN UP…The Problem with T AKING DOWN HISTORIC STATUES is When will it END. IT OPENS the DOOR for OTHER THINGS. G OD is a CONSERVATIVE GOD…TRADITIONAL..STABLE. GOD is the SAME…YESTERDAY….TODAY and FOREVER. HE is NOT Going to CHANGE with the DROP of a HAT. From SamuraiQueen. 😄😄😄
What an absolute farce…I hope every single one of those liberal pieces of sh*t singing is diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer at a time when their families need them most.
another paid off dem idiot…in the future we can tear down anything related to this as swipe and the BLM, Antifa, socialism, anything dem… good to know as we surely don’t want to be like them…
You can’t erase history, removing the statue was BS!!! Since you want to remove statues, lets remove ALL of the crap on malcolm x, lets remove ALL of the g floyd BS, the changing of street names to any criminals, like floyd, malcolm x!!! YOU WANT TO REMOVE STATUES, WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE??? If they don’t take there shit down, lets make sure we de-face it all!!! ALL THE IDIOTS THAT VOTED FOR DICTATOR bi den, are you happy, he lies EVERY DAY, he f n fell asleep ON CAMERA while “speaking” to the PM of Israel!!! Yeah, I hope all you commies are happy!!! This WILL BE THE END OF THE dems/commies!!! KEEP WATCHING AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS
. . bunch of f.ingthugs with nothing to do but destroy our country – if republicans did this, we would be imprisoned and made to pay for it – plus pay our own legal fees. These people are has bins that have nothing to loose – too many of them led by the democrats who let this happen. Perhaps they should move to a third world country that they are making the USA into. Time for republicans to march.
Another stupid leftist attempting to erase or re-write history . Just a little reminder Northam ,
“Those who ignore or do not face history will one day be forced to repeat it !”
I now avoid spending my vacation money in Virginia, and will continue to do so as long as these book-burning and statue-removing fools who have no appreciation of history are in charge in Virginia.
And burning of books are next from these communist democrat cult party members erasing history and writing false history claiming we were the United States at 1619 Bull manure!
Remove all of these communist democrat cult party members from all offices! period.
If you are going to take down statues. They they ALL must go. Can’t have it both ways
This is very sad. The Robert E. Lee statute symbolized States’ sovereign rights…to be free from the tyrannical rule of a centralized government. However, the evil globalists made him and the entire Civil War about the narrow issue of ‘slavery’ and bootstrapped that single issue into create division to fuel their tyrannical agenda. The ignorant progressive youth will be the hoist of their own petard.
Quote “The public monuments reflect the story we choose to tell about who we are as a people. It is time to display history as history, and use the public memorials to honor the full and inclusive truth of who we are today and in the future.”
If you remove statues of people who were involved in making the history of America and proves who we were – how do you call that being inclusive when ou only talk about today and the future?
Governor Northam is a Marxist Fascist of the type described by George Orwell – an unprincipled POS who only wants “New Truth” and will punish or destroy supporters of factual history.
Well, there goes that tourist attraction. Being a civil war buff I’ve visited a couple battlefields in Virginia. Looks like I don’t have to go back to that state. Nothing to see that interests me. I guess Virginia has decided it does not need tourism anymore.
They should put it back on his original farm land. Arlington Cemetery.
The people that have no history, are now saying what history we have. Time to stand up , to anyone that tries to cancel your history.
Castro was catholic!
Nancy Pelosi leaned forward and quietly told a man about to speak, “tell them you’re a Muslim” They will say anything, to anyone, to gain something!
Religious label doesn’t matter, we were all born into a sinful world, and that’s why God sent His only begotten Son to earth to die on the cross, and to rise from the dead, Jesus, conquered sin and death so all people could be forgiven, an have eternal life!
Africans sold their own people to the Dutch, the Dutch shipped them to the USA! Africans are still enslaving their own, in the diamond mines!
Hundreds of thousands of white American soldiers gave their lives to free slaves they never even met! That is what African Americans should be thankful for! They don’t care about equal rights, or lives, and they don’t care about BLM, if they did, Chicago wouldn’t have daily black on black murders, they just want more free rides!
We must rid the USA of Soros, Obama, and the DNC, if we are ever going to get our Country back!
Just give in to the biggest crybabies ever. If they r so concerned about slavery they should take it up with their people n countries that sold them. True Americans r sick n tired of them. Quit taking down OUR history.