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TexasTowelie

(116,558 posts) Tue Jun 8, 2021, 02:58 AM Jun 2021

Virginia court to hear challenges to removal of Lee statue

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Last June, when Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced a plan to take down a 131-year-old statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, the move was met with widespread praise and relief from racial justice activists who had long seen it as a symbol of white supremacy.

A year later, the enormous bronze equestrian statue still towers over a traffic circle on historic Monument Avenue in downtown Richmond, kept in place by two lawsuits filed by people who believe it should stay right where it is.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Virginia will hear arguments in the legal challenges.

Among the central issues to be decided by the court: Is the Commonwealth of Virginia bound by a decision made by state officials more than 130 years ago? Or can the state undo that decision because the public’s attitude toward Confederate symbols has changed drastically since then?

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/george-floyd-virginia-courts-f21704e2c6602de3cbb9b01005adab37

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Virginia court to hear challenges to removal of Lee statue (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2021 OP

Let us consider what one of Virginia's greatest sons, Thomas Jefferson, had to say about the dead... Journeyman Jun 2021 #1

I still really can't believe the monuments are gone underpants Jun 2021 #2

Journeyman

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1. Let us consider what one of Virginia's greatest sons, Thomas Jefferson, had to say about the dead...

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Jun 8, 2021, 03:20 AM

Jun 2021

I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, ‘that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living:’ that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. the portion occupied by any individual ceases to be his when himself ceases to be, & reverts to the society.

Tear it down. Take it out of the public square.

underpants

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2. I still really can't believe the monuments are gone

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Jun 8, 2021, 05:17 AM

Jun 2021

I never thought I’d see that. Those were city property while Lee is a state park INSIDE the sidewalk surrounding it. The sidewalk is city the grass is Commonwealth turf.

AP Hill is still up on city land. He’s buried under it which is complicating things. He’s been buried at least three times from what I have been able to find.

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