Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue will be melted down by city's African American history museum

[Ohio Joe]

The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that once provoked a deadly weekend of violence in Charlottesville will soon be melted down and turned into a new piece of public artwork, following a vote by city lawmakers early Tuesday morning.

Since taking it down over the summer, the city had been searching for a new owner for the 1,100-pound monument, which had served as the focal point of the 2017 Unite the Right rally. Six proposals were submitted by arts groups, historical societies or individuals, who offered to pay as much as $100,000 for the Lee sculpture and a toppled monument of fellow general Stonewall Jackson.

But the Charlottesville City Council voted 4 to 0 to hand the bronze statue over to the only local bidder: the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, a Black-led museum whose “Swords Into Plowshares” idea would repurpose the metal entirely.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/charlottesville-s-robert-e-lee-statue-will-be-melted-down-by-city-s-african-american-history-museum/ar-AARz8mK?ocid=msedgntp

A nice feel good story

[Ray Bruns]

1. Needed a feel good story today.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Gotta be a lot better use for that scrap metal...

[traitorsgalore]

3. Good, otherwise the new confederate gov Bumpkin would put it back up

The next 4 years is going to be good in Virginia as we Virginians get to knock down every racist, fascist idea Youngkin-Bumpkin has.

[jaxexpat]

4. The Army of the Potomac finally wins.

[twodogsbarking]

5. Hopefully years from now there won't be statues of

the January 6th tourists that need to be melted down.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. You can't erase history by forgetting it

but it can resurface if you don't remember.

[BaronChocula]

7. Since they're melting down bronzed losers...

Well never mind. Trump is having no problem melting himself down.

[TlalocW]

8. Honestly

I think that a museum for all these statues being taken down is the thing to do, but it's a history of the statues themselves. Like, "This statue of blah-blah-blah went up in 1920, funded by this racist group in response to this civil rights event." But melting it down has a nice schadenfreude feel to it.

TlalocW