robert e. lee
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Virginia Judge Says Robert E. Lee Monument Can be Removed From Richmond Pending Appeal
2020 has been quite the year for a soldier of white supremacy who’s been dead for just over 150 years. It’s been nearly 5 months since Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam declared that “Richmond is no longer the capital of the Confederacy” and announced plans to remove the city’s iconic statue of Confederate General Robert E.…
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Not Saying America Is Racist or Anything, but Over 240 Schools Are Named After Confederate Leaders
Over the summer, cities and states scrambled to respond to the protests that erupted in the wake of George Floyd’s death from police violence. Among the many symbolic gestures was the renaming of schools named after Confederate leaders. According to CNN, the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) has found that over 240 schools are named after…
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Hologram of George Floyd Displayed Over Robert E. Lee Monument in Virginia
On Tuesday night in Richmond, Va., a group of organizers projected a hologram of George Floyd over a monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee as part of an effort to confront America’s long history of systemic racism. CBS News reports that this was the inaugural event for the George Floyd Hologram Memorial Project, a…
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A High School in Virginia Named After Robert E. Lee Will Be Renamed After John Lewis
A school district in Virginia has voted that a high school named after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee will be renamed for Georgia Rep. John Lewis, who died on July 17. CNN reports that the Fairfax County School Board allowed people to submit suggestions for a month, and held a virtual town hall and a…
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Richmond Judge Won’t Let Virginia be Great, Extends Injunction Preventing the Removal of Robert E. Lee Monument
For people who want so badly for black people to just forget about slavery, conservative white people sure seem bound and determined to hold on to the very monuments that immediately remind black folk of what our ancestors endured. Many of us were beside ourselves with joy after we learned that the 130-year-old statue of…
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‘Richmond Is No Longer the Capital of the Confederacy’: Virginia Will Remove Robert E. Lee Statue, Four Other Confederate Monuments
A common argument made by racist-memorabilia-loving white people who still swear to white Jesus that they aren’t racist is that the tearing down of Confederate monuments is an attempt at erasing history. People with the ability to think critically, on the other hand, understand that monuments are erected to honor and immortalize people and events,…
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To Hell With Y’all: Charlottesville Judge Rules Confederate Statues Will Stay
Well, it was a good idea while it lasted. I’m referring to the removal of public monuments of known racists. But the law—in that comfortable cradle of great virtue the world knows as Charlottesville, Va.,—has prevailed. And it’s the celebration of racist business as usual. On Wednesday, a judge in the fair, ahem, city ruled…
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Robert E. Lee’s Horse’s Ass Made Me Black
For Heather Heyer and her fellow anti-racist protestors, two years after Charlottesville. There’s a vacation photo of me, all grainy and saturated like the best ’80s snapshots. My messy red ’fro is damp, my smiling face is half in shadow, my feet are dangling in glistening water that spreads to the edges of the frame,…
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Trump Now Claims His 'Very Fine People on Both Sides' Comment Wasn't About White Supremacists
President Donald Trump spins so much that even trying to keep all his truths, lies and subsequent lies about his truths can make you dizzy. But let’s try and think back a bit to that deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, when the president of people who were wearing khakis and…
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GOP Congressman Under Fire for Most Racist Office Display Ever
Members of an employees union are demanding an apology from a Georgia legislator after they discovered white supremacist memorabilia on full display in his Washington, D.C., congressional office. You’re probably thinking, “Here we go again. Some Civil War aficionado who sympathizes with the South’s ‘lost cause’ probably had a Confederate flag in his office. He’ll…