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Related: About this forumCharlottesville City Council appropriates $1 million for removal of Confederate statues
Charlottesville is one step closer to removing its Confederate statues.
The City Council voted unanimously Wednesday during a special meeting to appropriate $1 million for removal, storage and/or covering of the statues of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson, as well as one of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and Shoshone interpreter Sacagawea.
The $1 million will come from the citys Capital Improvement Program Contingency Fund.
This is just putting funding in place so that we can either remove, store or cover any or all of the three statues
Any type of permanent dispossession, transfer of ownership or otherwise, would have to come back to you as a council for approval and a vote, said City Manager Chip Boyles.
The council has not yet decided if the statues will be demolished or relocated.
Read more: https://roanoke.com/news/state-and-regional/charlottesville-city-council-appropriates-1-million-for-removal-of-confederate-statues/article_8951f9c2-a578-5c5d-a774-628ad1fcd1d6.html
beveeheart
(1,401 posts)and I was always bothered by her subservient position.
https://www.cvillepedia.org/Sacagawea,_Lewis_and_Clark_Statue
TexasTowelie
(116,559 posts)I understand why you are bothered with it and I sympathize.
Duppers
(28,244 posts)Do you know if it was ever removed?
So glad there are other statues honoring her.
beveeheart
(1,401 posts)Duppers
(28,244 posts)Thanks for posting this, TT.
TexasTowelie
(116,559 posts)It was a bold move by the city council.
Duppers
(28,244 posts)Despite the bad publicity of those marchers ("very fine people on both sides" ), they were outsiders, not from folks from Charlottesville.
Even the area's Airbnb's cancelled bookings when they learned that they were being used by racists at the rally.
John Grisham and Sissy Spacek live in there...and UVa (my son's undergrad alma mater) is in Charlottesville.
However, I think you can find racist wingers in the outlying areas.