RICHMOND, Va. — 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.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.
The Jackson statue was erected in Jackson Park in 1921 and the Lee statue was erected in Lee Park in 1924. In Thursday’s decision, State Supreme Court Justice Bernard Goodwyn said both statues were erected long before the passage of a law regulating the “disturbance of or interference with” war memorials or monuments.
“In other words, did not provide the authority for the City to erect the Statues, and it does not prohibit the City from disturbing or interfering with them,” Goodwyn wrote.
VoteBluAmerica Fantastic!
This is gonna trigger a lot or racists LoL
Stupid people. You can't erase history nor change it. SMH. All we can do is learn from it.
Since white nationalist find these statues as symbols of there present day struggles then it should be removed. We don't need extremist ideals in America!
Note. We don’t need a goddamn court ruling to trash these statues
CorbieCrow
US Isis rules.
Very stupid, history is gone
That didn't take long... When was THE ISSUE brought up? Over A YEAR AGO Wonderful ILL-LEGAL SYSTEM we have...don't we?
The high courts must be lowlife Democrats
Well this should fix everything.. shew finally..
What’s the purpose of this post.
If yall don't get out of here with these symbolic gestures of repentance🤨 Stop discussing and get to cutting✂️ REPARATIONS are due YESTERDAY! Cut the check and get the land ready too💯 Taking down statues and pedophiles, mass murderers and slave owners STILL on the money n shit
Republicans want US to accept or ignore the racism.
The random angry mob that tried to pull down statues were white nationalists and not antifa and blm? Rewriting history again?
Charles Manson and Al Capone are both parts of American history, why no statue?
NOBODY GIVES A SHIT ABOUT IT
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It’s ridiculous that these statues were put up in the first place. Since fucking when have we celebrated LOSERS in America?!
Why is there a statue commemorating a treasonous general in the first place? The south is weird
If you support monuments to white supremacy then you support white supremacy. That's it, end of discussion.
VA better be ready for a repeat of that American history black eye that was the Charlottesville 2017 neo-Nazi rallies.
OF COURSE, LEFT WING MOB RULES !
Bye, ugly! What kind of shithole country erects monuments to losing generals in The first place? How embarrassing
Good. Leave their names to the history books as traitors and losers
The world watching America destroy its self from the inside out 😂 If they start with statues they might as well go the whole way! Every Racist movie, book and papercut most be destroyed! Do you feel this is going too far! Or does America needs to be ruled by another country!
Rumble rumble
Tear them all down!
Why do people on the right glorify a group of losers like the confederate army?
Just put it in a Museum where they belong
Can, but wont
GOOD.
REMOVING THE STATUES WILL NEVER CHANGE AMERICAS HERITAGE & RICH HISTORY. AP WON'T PRINT THE TRUTH EITHER. THE WHITE NATIONALIST & THE KKK WERE BOTH MADE UP OF THE SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS ! THAT IS FACT ! TRAITOR TRASH liberal democrats ARE AMERICA'S BIGGEST ENEMY & THEY NEED DESTROYED
Honestly I don’t think young kids care about a statue or the history. Moving forward ....
Good. Now you can blame ALL Whites for slavery. Erase all evidence of two groups. Just segregate the class. 'People like you owned people like them.' South died to protect their homes and Family of all colors. They died wrong. Hope China leaves Biden's statue up while we hang.
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So sad.
Hooray!! Final destination, the dustbin of history.
Why erect statues of traitors to America that fought for racism that still exists today causing inequity, hate, violence and murder in modern day society. It’s pretty easy. Show respect to everyone and erect monuments of those who did the same.
Virginia is stepping up!
I hope they don’t take down the statue of Rocky Balboa for giving Apollo Creed a beat down!
So sad! You can’t erase our history!!
Losers don't deserve statues.
The cry babies can still wave their participation flags on Klan day at the trailer park .
Virginia wants to change its history. But we all know who you are! You were strong with history. Now you have become weak and remorseful. You have disgraced our military might. Many souls have been lost to its past. SHAMEFUL!
To understand why this is such an ugly statue to those who grew up locally, see this historically relevant article. A small step forward with big implications. The truth will set us ALL free, to heal, to grow, to be compassionate.
For those that wish to know the facts of why this statue is such a powerful symbol of White Supremacy see this article. Learn why it's despised...
Good, take down all tributes to traitors who attacked the U.S. Put their statues in museums if people insist on keeping that garbage.
Will accompany you ... symbols can be very powerful and this one derisive to those who once lived in that space. I hope we celebrate humanity in a more generous, compassionate way in that same space.
Lame buncha snowflakes
Because THIS is what’s important right now. NOT a pandemic, crisis at our southern border or our ongoing homeless and mental health crisis
Good, now let’s do all of them.
I never understood why these statues anyway. We don’t have a Benedict Arnold stature anywhere and mofo was a damn maniac warrior. One bad decision while thinking with his prick and we disown him, Lee and his ilk spent 4 yrs as active traitors.
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Stupid. This will change nothing. Those statues are a part of history to be learned from.
DrWesBellamy is owed a debt of gratitude Numerous brave people stood up and made glorious noise about the message that these statues send But Dr Bellamy was the one who faced down the greatest losses and stood his ground
Taken down by the same group that put them up 🤣👍
Womp. Womp.
Also watch the racists be in the replies crying lol they better build a bridge and get over it 😂 They want us to forget our history and honor theirs lmao
You can’t reason with these people
ACLU goodideas
Problem solved! What's next? World peace?
DemocratsUp Great to see some Justice taking place!
It’s fine for everyone to share their opinions. There’s a saying about opinions, right?!! 🤣 The Charlottesville community will never forget the violence & death of Heather Heyer due to the protests / lawsuits / and continued pain due to these statues. . .
If it's on city property they shouldn't need a judge to give them permission !
Tear EVERY statue down Change EVERY name of EVERY sports team to generic name like “football team” since someone is always offended Change EVERY name of a food that offends someone to generic name like “rice” or “beans” Now every moron will be happy and we will all be generic
GOOD
Shows how many pansies are living in that state
I wonder if this will bring out the crazies, or if the 350 arrests of the 6 January insurrectionists will quell their fervor?
Took long enough. Nothing about the confederacy should be celebrated except their loss.
'... Charlottesville can take down two statues of Confederate generals, including one of Robert E. Lee ...' he would approve
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Yes, let's not honor those who fought for slavery.
rachel_maria65 Trump might say: Can you believe these courts? They will allow our beautiful statues, ok, to our wonderful heroes removed, ok, there were fine people on both sides, believe me, they want to erase our culture.
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The only nation on Earth that honors a loser who betrayed his country.
So the park land where the statues sit will be returned to the heirs of those who originally donated each? I know, I know. The plans are a park and statue honoring George Floyd.
mehdirhasan
jewlnight Yes!!! The confederacy were the losers of that war and we need to be united as a country and these statues are symbols that are keeping us from that so I am happy they are being removed. And white supremacists who don’t like that can leave and find their own country!
More history of the USA gone and sadly most of the nut jobs who want to tear things down, has no ideal what the person done and why his statue is put up in the first place
Indeed
Down with the traitors of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
openargs Good.
I never paid attention to statues, except for the aesthetics. Always considered them decoration, not idol worship. My bad, I guess. Going to miss the horses.
roybelly Put up one of the guy double dribbling
Communism gets rid of all the vestiges of history. Coincidentally, Nazis did too. Too legs of the same demon.
Nice
The Confederacy lost the war. Those statues represent not heroism, but the monstrous acts of men attempting to continue slavery for rich white plantation owners and other businesses. Couldn’t be better news.
Put em' in a museum where they belong, not out in public like a badge of honor
Hold this L, traitors.
I think there should only be statues of (other) animals, since we are superior in every way to you ridiculous humans. 😂🐧
Boy now it looks like a super-good use of resources to have had cops guarding those statues en masse l those days & nights.
Great news!!! But oh no.. Here comes the tiki torchers... whining like little bitches
I see the chuds have already arrived to try and make this sound like a bad thing...