Deaconblue
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One story is that it is going into a warehouse. Perhaps they can find a resting place for it along side the Ark from Indiana Jones.
Lots of stories floating around that VA Gov. Northam is going to announce that the famous Robert E. Lee statue on Richmond's Monument Avenue will be removed from its pedestal and placed into storage. That's big news. The statue is arguably the most famous one of Robert E. Lee in the country, and is a cornerstone of Richmond's most famous street. It was erected in 1890, and was followed by other Confederate statues on the street honoring Stonewall Jackson, Jeb Stuart, and Jefferson Davis (according to Richmond's Mayor, there are plans to remove those statues as well.) It will be interesting to see if there are any protests, and what the state and national reaction will be. I visited Richmond in the 90s to tour the city's historic sites, and traveled down Monument Avenue. If you had told me then that the Lee statue would ever be removed I wouldn't have believed it, symbol of an ugly past though it surely is. I guess elections and protests do matter.
Link: https://apnews.com/75e6f0d57a896207551c1c0e8868cb27
The Arthur Ashe statue was very controversial. You’ll never guess why.
“But, but, but...blackface!” -Angus, almost certainly.
https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-new...derate-generals-statue-toppled-in-monroe-park
Different Richmond statue toppled (this one by protestors)
So too with the statues of Lee. Leave them in an open-air park, to whose upkeep Virginia can devote, say, the salary of a part-time groundskeeper and mowing equipment that only sometimes works. The mountains and hills of Virginia are beautiful places, perfect for a ghostly meadow littered with decrepit, moss-covered statuary planted in the earth at a slovenly tilt. I would not mind if neo-Confederates were permitted to visit the statues and venerate them, as long as other people could visit them and do whatever they pleased to them as well. Germany outlaws Nazi gatherings, but it seems more American to allow any and all assemblies, including pathetic jamborees of neo-Confederates, in suitably demeaning surroundings.