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Yonnie3

(18,111 posts) Mon Dec 12, 2022, 10:10 AM Dec 2022

Richmond's statue of A.P. Hill is being removed as I type this

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Richmond's statue of A.P. Hill is being removed as I type this (Original Post) Yonnie3 Dec 2022 OP

To think someone was killed over such an issue Proud to be Woke Dec 2022 #1

I knew Heather when she was a child Yonnie3 Dec 2022 #3

Yeah LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2022 #2

Proud to be Woke

(55 posts)

1. To think someone was killed over such an issue

Reply to Yonnie3 (Original post)

Mon Dec 12, 2022, 10:29 AM

Dec 2022

I will never forget Heather Heyer being killed because of the planned removal of a Confederate officer statue in Charlottesville, 2017. I recall the mayor of Baltimore quietly contracting for the removal and relocation of many statues there, about a week later, so the same thing might not happen there. Whether it would or not is conjecture now, because she took them down!

Yonnie3

(18,111 posts)

3. I knew Heather when she was a child

Reply to Proud to be Woke (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 12, 2022, 10:38 AM

Dec 2022

Heather Heyer was killed because fascists, racists, and other extremists chose to pretend their rally was about a statue. It wasn't about a statue.

The A. P. hill statue removal was delayed because of court battles. Hill's remains are there.

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LetMyPeopleVote

(154,423 posts)

2. Yeah

Reply to Yonnie3 (Original post)

Mon Dec 12, 2022, 10:32 AM

Dec 2022

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