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Democrat Lawmakers From Virginia Call for General Robert E. Lee Statue to be Removed From U.S. Capitol

[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Two Democrat politicians from Virginia are calling for the state’s statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to be removed from the US Capitol.

Reps. Jennifer Wexton and A. Donald McEachin have asked that the state’s Democrat Governor Ralph Coonman Northam
Ralph <q>Coonman</q> Northam

...Governor of Virginia, another Dem Great White Hope. He won election by calling his Publican opponent Ed Gillespie a racist, but then, don't they all?...
, who was photographed wearing blackface and got a free pass, make removing the statue a priority in 2020.

"These statutes aimed to rewrite Lee’s reputation from that of a cruel slave owner and Confederate General to portraying him as a kind man and reluctant war hero who selflessly served his home state of Virginia," they wrote to Northam, according to a report from The Hill.

The statue of General Lee is housed in the National Statuary Hall Collection in DC, where each state is allowed to place two. Lee’s is housed in the Crypt. The politicians want to see the Confederate statue replaced with one of civil rights leader Oliver Hill or Booker T. Washington.

"As Virginians, we have a responsibility to not only learn from but also confront our history," their letter continued. "As part of this responsibility, we must strive for a more complete telling of history by raising up the voices, stories, and memories of minorities and people of color."

In order to replace the statue, the Democrat-controlled state legislature would have to pass a bill which would then need to be signed by Northam.
Just ignore any contemporary accounts, north or south

Posted by Fred 2019-12-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Of course, you know, this means war!

--Bugs Bunny

Posted by Alaska Paul 2019-12-25 01:10|| 2019-12-25 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Obviously projects like 1619 cannot stand as long as real history is around.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-25 03:14|| 2019-12-25 03:14|| Front Page Top

#3 He fought for his team. His loyalty first was to Virginia. (I'm sure on most Saturdays in the fall, a lot of southerners and northerners will be cheering their teams. And now for the bowl season.) That was an era when it was considered by many to be the United STATES of America rather than the UNITED States of America.

In Lee's favor, his actions at the surrender and afterward help avoid a nasty insurgency that could have easily happened.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-25 04:24|| 2019-12-25 04:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Mark my word: Next these loons will demand we raze the Jefferson Memorial. Then they'll demand that we knock down the Washington Monument, and efface the Second Inaugural Address from the Lincoln Memorial -- or else pair it with a scrolling big screen video playing various rapsters' Odes to Trayvon and Gentle Giant Michael Brown et al.

$10k says either the NYT editors or a leading Dem politician or both will demand one or more of the above within the next three years.

Posted by Lex 2019-12-25 05:25|| 2019-12-25 05:25|| Front Page Top

#5 "The sound of the caissons rolling along, the jingle and clatter of the horse's on the street. Then the KABOM ! of the black powder cannon firing cannister with grape shot, blowing through the residential walls of the leftists. "

Posted by Gomez Flugum6633 2019-12-25 08:55|| 2019-12-25 08:55|| Front Page Top

#6 What are they going to do about Kappa Alpha?

Posted by Albert Shusoque5511 2019-12-25 10:00|| 2019-12-25 10:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Enough, Kiss my white, Irish-American, ass!
Bobby Lee had more integrity, loyalty and sense of duty as he saw it than the entire demorat party today.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-12-25 15:33|| 2019-12-25 15:33|| Front Page Top

#8 A race: "What a season it's been,
With the risin' of 1619!"
"The darkest of entries--"
"With form for four centuries--"
"Has turned all the other nags green!"

Posted by Jeremiah Ebbomomp4337 2019-12-25 23:21|| 2019-12-25 23:21|| Front Page Top

#9 "Washington, DC is 12 square miles surrounded by reality."--President Andrew Johnson

Posted by JohnQC 2019-12-25 23:48|| 2019-12-25 23:48|| Front Page Top

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