September 9, 2021
#BLM IS WORKING:
Crowds cheered as workers took down and dismembered Richmond's Robert E. Lee statute. Trump complained. (PETER WEBER, 9/08/21, The Week)
After months of careful planning by Virginia officials and engineers, Richmond's 21-foot-high statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee's "surrender came so fast -- after less than an hour of work Wednesday -- that hundreds of onlookers were caught by surprise," The Washington Post reports. The jubilant crowd cheered. Gov. Ralph Northam (D), who had ordered Virginia's largest remaining Confederate statue removed in June 2020 and persisted through several court challenges, said "this day has been a long time coming."
Posted by Orrin Judd at September 9, 2021 12:00 AM