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By: Jake Burns. Infanticide is a crime and the payment will come to him eventually. They launched a new campaign to undo the results of the Civil War by other means.”He noted a new law, set to go into effect in four weeks, that allows localities to decide whether or not to take down other Confederate monuments. Virginia Gov. Justin Fairfax speaks to demonstrators in front of A judge on Thursday extended an earlier 10-day injunction that was set to expire, stemming from a lawsuit that cites a 130-year-old agreement the state signed to take control of the statue promising that it would be considered “perpetually sacred.”Protests following the death of George Floyd has brought On June 4, Gov. Times change, and so do political parties.Sorry, Scott, this history is all nonsense.
What a sick person he is.
Grant freed his in 1865.
Once President Lyndon Johnson returned a conscience to the Democratic party, and got all the civil rights legislation of the 60s passed, the Dixiecrats were no longer so much in love with him. Some will say, Lee was an honorable man.
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Of course, slavery is evil. It’s also when the Ku Klux Klan peaked in membership, and many Jim Crow laws were passed.In Washington, D.C., House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called for the removal of Confederate statues from the National Statuary Hall Collection.
Removing a Symbol will not change how you inherently Feel about the events of the past.Well, while your removing monuments that have stood for decades, let us not forget it was the DEMOCRATS that DID NOT want to abolish slavery, it was DEMOCRATS that were most involved in KKK, so, therefore we must REMOVE ALL democrats from political office and government!! It was the opposite of what they’d done for a hundred years. 26 Comments.
Most Confederate generals did not support slavery, but they did support States rights, and felt that the Federal government was taking powers that were not theirs to take.
The statue, which was put up in the late 19th century, is one of many reminders of the “Lost Cause” period in the south, with the “Lost Cause” notion holding that the Civil War was fought to protect Southern values from Northern aggressors. Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. “The government officials of 1890 had no power and no right to make a legally enforceable promise that the Commonwealth of Virginia would display a massive government-owned monument on government-owned property forever,” Solicitor General Toby Heytens argued in court. More of the same from the beginning of time.If President Lincoln had not sent armed troops into Virginia, Lee may well have stayed with the Union Army.
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"While these statues across the country have been removed, dozens of other Virginia is home to more confederate commemorations than any other state, according to its governor, Ralph Northam, and on Thursday he vowed to do something about that.Northam said he's directing that the statue of Robert E. Lee, which sits in the state's capital of Richmond, be taken down and moved into storage while a decision is made on its future.
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Now, if you want to take down Jefferson Davis, go right ahead. But taking down this statue won’t do anything. Then it will be your property.Maybe we should also close down Arlington National Cemetery since it’s on Robert E Lee’s estate.Northam is a hypocrite.
"Alexandria, like all great cities, is constantly changing and evolving," he wrote.A spokesperson for the city told CNN in a statement that "the owner of the statue (United Daughters of the Confederacy) notified the City yesterday that they would remove the statue this morning. In a tweet, Gov.
There is numerous evidence of his racism that is overlooked because the Democrats can use it to their advantage to control him.