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2021-12-08 -Great Cultural Revolution

Charlottesville Robert E. Lee statue to be melted down to create 'art that will reflect racial justice'

[THEHILL] The Charlottesville, Va. city council on Tuesday unanimously approved a move for its now-infamous statue of Confederate leader Robert E. Lee to be melted down to create public artwork that will "reflect racial justice," The New York Times

... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported.The city council will give the statue to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which plans to melt the monument to create a new piece of public artwork, according to the measure.

The city council selected the Jefferson School’s proposal "Swords Into Plowshares," from other potential bidders for the statue, according to The Times.

According to its Indiegogo campaign page, the Jefferson School plans to "transform a national symbol of white supremacy

...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values...
into a new work of art that will reflect racial justice and inclusion."

"It is a community based project that all of the voices in the community will be able to articulate what we want in our public spaces, as opposed to objects that were given to our community that highlighted a particular ideology that we no longer share," Jefferson School center executive director Andrea Douglas said.

Posted by Fred 2021-12-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [19 views ] Top

#1 That "deadly white [hillbilly] rally,"
Per press, with its dubious tally
Of one, is surpassed
By Black bodies amassed
Every hour on walks through the valley:
All-Black M.L.K. or back alley.

Posted by Unavimp Chusogum4170 2021-12-08 04:21|| 2021-12-08 04:21|| Front Page Top

#2 When do they dis-inter him and burn his corpse at the stake?

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-08 08:24|| 2021-12-08 08:24|| Front Page Top

#3 The bronze will be re-cast from Robt. E. Lee to a statue of St George the Fentanyl Arse-Stuffer. .... "from Hyperion to a satyr"

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-08 09:00|| 2021-12-08 09:00|| Front Page Top

#4 So, I guess we can ask, will the statue be anatomically correct? For learnin' the chilluns, ya know...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-08 09:02|| 2021-12-08 09:02|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ quite possibly.

If placed near a local public school the new statue could serve two purposes:
1) venerate St George, and
2) supplement the Woke $ex Ed curriculum by using St George and his hooping maneuver to demonstrate the technique of anaI self-pleasuring with one's own fentanyl-greased member

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-08 09:47|| 2021-12-08 09:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Plowshares into Swords. How Ottoman.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-12-08 14:00|| 2021-12-08 14:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Asinine move. They should auction the statue

Posted by magpie 2021-12-08 16:58|| 2021-12-08 16:58|| Front Page Top

#8 I read somewhere that $100,000 was offered, and refused.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-12-08 18:18|| 2021-12-08 18:18|| Front Page Top

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