High court: Charlottesville can remove Confederate statues

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By MATTHEW BARAKAT and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s highest court ruled Thursday that the city of Charlottesville can take down two statues of Confederate generals, including one of Robert E. Lee that became the focus of a violent white nationalist rally in 2017.

The state Supreme Court overturned a Circuit Court decision in favor of a group of residents who sued to block the city from taking down the Lee statue and a nearby monument to fellow Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. Charlottesville’s city council voted to remove both.

White supremacist and neo-Nazi organizers of the August 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville said they went to the city to defend the statue of Lee. They clashed with counterprotesters before a man plowed his car into a crowd of people, killing a woman.

The Jackson statue was erected in Jackson Park in 1921 and the Lee statue was erected in Lee Park in 1924. In 1918, the city had accepted a resident’s offer to donate land for parks for both statutes.



FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017 file photo, city workers drape a tarp over a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Emancipation park in Charlottesville, Va., intended to symbolize the city's mourning for Heather Heyer who was killed while protesting a white nationalist rally earlier in the month. On Thursday, April 1, 2021, Virginia's highest court ruled that the city of Charlottesville can take down this and another statue of a Confederate general. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)


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[TreasonousBastard]

1. Every time I see one of these court cases about tearing down the statues, I wonder what...

legal principles the Klansmen are using.

Seems to me that the statues were first put up in the '20s at the behest of the citizenry. Nowadays, the city council presumably representing the current population, has decided to tear them down.

This is what is called democracy, which sometimes comes up with the right thing to do.

[Hoyt]

2. Klans(wo)men think statues to a "heritage of hatred" is a Constitutional right.

[paleotn]

3. Great, but......

can we blow them up on pay per view?

[The Jungle 1]

4. The south's celebration of treason has always been wrong.

Wonder how long until the racist right starts building statues celebrating Civil War II. Their treason has no limit.