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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
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)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.
daa
(2,621 posts)Here in Georgia they want to carve up Stone Mountain.
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)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
(118,356 posts)... 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.