The Confederacy has long been a controversial topic in the United States. While the state has long been associated with racism and slavery, many modern southerners view the Confederacy as an important part of southern heritage.
Until recently, relics of the Confederate States of America have been allowed throughout the south for historical purposes, but in today’s politically correct climate, many of those monuments have been forcibly removed.
Last year, statues of Robert E. Lee, the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, were removed from locals parks in Virgina. The contractor who removed the statues found his Lamborghini torched in response.
Now, more statues of the former general are coming down across the state — at huge cost.
Read about the latest Robert E. Lee statue to fall on the next page:
Sad
This stupidity needs stopped now!
It needs to be in a museum. It’s a work of art. Put it in a Civil War museum. We need to learn and remember the past.
It shouldn’t be in a town square of any public lands. Civil War museum.
Patricia Allton im from Georgia and they did teach us, not in school though. Hard not to learn when there are reminders everywhere. English and Irish conscripts won the war (for England), they werent slaves but close to it. We’re the slaves and we lost…thats why we’re still their slaves.
You can’t get rid of God or history.
Removing statues still dont change history
This won’t make the truth about our history change! We need to be able to learn from history but we will continue to make the same mistakes over again if we just try to erase it.
Buffy Edgar Bandley yes thank you the first slave owners were black! Well done!
Kenny Bachman I GUESS YOU FORGOT THE POOR WHITE IRISH WHO CAME OVER AS POLITICAL PRISONERS IN CHAINS AS WELL. that damn statue didn’t do a thing to you.. you sir are a stupid fool. there were thousands of WHITE irish and scottish who was against england locked up in prisons at the time and england had them sent figuring they would die anyway.. they were treated no differently than the black… but i still ask you are you getting rid of all of the statues from the north. there is sherman one of the worst men during the war for torturing his captives of the south… what about robert e lee who owned many slaves. and they had to force him by laws to get rid of them as he didn’t want to after the war.. so no sir I suggest you study all the history.. of slavery before passing judgment. oh BTW we must start in Africa. I don’t’ want any thing black person reminding me of the blacks in africa who captured their own blacks of different tribes to sell to the slave buyers…And we can’t leave out anthony Johnson who actually was a black slave owner and taught the whites about it..BUT GET IT YOU AND YOUR KIND DON’T FIGHT AGAINST SLAVERY YOU FIGHT AGAINST WHITES. LETS TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH.. HE…. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist)
Susan Rice Actually anthony Johnson is recorded as being the first BLACK slave owner. see wiki above..