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struggle4progress

(118,032 posts)
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 06:53 PM Mar 2016

Charlottesville's vice mayor: Take down Robert E. Lee statue (VA)

Posted: Mar 20, 2016 4:35 PM EDT
Updated: Mar 20, 2016 5:39 PM EDT

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va (WVIR) - Charlottesville's vice mayor is calling on City Council to take down a statue honoring Confederate general Robert E. Lee and rename the park that surrounds it ... Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy says ... the Robert E. Lee statue has symbolized a lot of different things since it was installed in 1924. Bellamy believes city leaders need to take action when anyone in the community feels disrespected. “I've spoken with several different people who have said they have refused to step foot in to that park because of what that statue and the name of that park represents. And we can't have that in the city of Charlottesville" ...

http://www.nbc29.com/story/31521671/vice-mayor-wes-bellamy-take-down-robert-e-lee-statue

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Charlottesville's vice mayor: Take down Robert E. Lee statue (VA) (Original Post) struggle4progress Mar 2016 OP
Great idea. wildeyed Mar 2016 #1
Really a stupid idea. daa Mar 2016 #2
So you like monuments to white supremacists wildeyed Mar 2016 #3
Sign the petition to add Outkast to Stone Mountain! struggle4progress Mar 2016 #4
I would TOTALLY go to see that. wildeyed Mar 2016 #5

wildeyed

(11,240 posts)
1. Great idea.
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 07:55 PM
Mar 2016

Hope they get this done. Past time for this country to stop idolizing traitors who were willing to die for the right to enslave other people.

wildeyed

(11,240 posts)
3. So you like monuments to white supremacists
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 08:09 AM
Mar 2016

and traitors to the USA in public spaces? Nice!

And in Georgia, they ALREADY carved up Stone Mountains. Putting a memorial to the Confederacy in a state park, at the site of the founding of the second KKK, THAT was a stupid idea.

struggle4progress

(118,032 posts)
4. Sign the petition to add Outkast to Stone Mountain!
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 09:41 AM
Mar 2016



... By no means do we wish to erase or destroy the current carving, which, regardless of its context, is an impressive and historic work of art. We simply wish to add new carvings, of Atlanta hip-hop duo Outkast, to the mountainside. There's plenty of room. I believe that Daddy Fat Sacks and Three Stacks should be carved riding in a Cadillac (as is their wont). This will help the new carving blend nicely with the Confederates who are on horseback ...
Carve Big Boi and Andre 3000, riding in a Cadillac, into the face of Stone Mountain.
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