Robert E. Lee's last ride through streets of Charlottesville

[bigtree]

Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC 4m
Robert E. Lee’s last ride through streets of Charlottesville, this morning:



♫"Na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na" ♫♫

[Aristus]

1. Goodbyyyyyyyyyye, m****rf****rrrrrrr!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Fuck him and the horse he rode in on!

[Nictuku]

3. You have been wanting to say that for a long time, no? (haha)

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. Now that you mention it,......😏

[edhopper]

5. Traveller was a great horse

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Dump him and keep the horse.

[Sneederbunk]

14. Traveller

[edhopper]

16. What I said

And you can't prove otherwise now.

[Sneederbunk]

17. Unfortunately you have an Edit History.

[edhopper]

18. D'OH!

[bigtree]

7. winner

[milestogo]

21. The horse was only doing his job.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

24. That's what they all say!

[Javaman]

4. Should be melted down and repurposed as toilet seats. nt

[Shermann]

8. Bronze toilet seats?

Might be a bit chilly.

[Javaman]

10. With clime change they will be all the rage 😁nt

[11 Bravo]

28. Spray paint them gold and sell them to TFG.

[rickyhall]

9. There goes my great great something uncle back to obscurity

Where he wanted to be. (I'm descended from his sister or so I'm told.)

[Brother Buzz]

11. Installed in the 1920's, coincidently during the second resurgence the Klan

Curious, no?

[bigtree]

20. correct

Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC 2h
Ku Klux Klan marched in Binghamton, New York, during same era that Charlottesville, Virginia, unveiled its new Robert E. Lee statue:



...in fact:

[crickets]

31. Eye-opening timeline - thanks for that. nt

[Botany]

12. "Virgil, quick, come see, There goes Robert E. Lee!"

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"Virgil, quick, come see,
There goes Robert E. Lee!"

The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"

******
Melt the fucker down. The war was over 156 years ago and Lee fought for the right to own human
beings as slaves and for the end of the United States of America. When a slave ran away from his
farm Lee had the man horse whipped and then had salt water poured over his wounds.

[jmowreader]

23. I don't think they should

They should put it in an alcove at a museum, and the walls of the alcove should be covered with descriptions of just how bad he was.

[Ruby Zee]

13. Goodbye Treason Weasel nt

[Shermann]

15. These statues represent allegory more than history

This is coming from the University of Virginia in regards to their school of art funder Paul Goodloe McIntire, who commissioned this statue.

https://art.as.virginia.edu/history-paul-goodloe-mcintire

If they can be honest about it, anybody can (and should).

[bigtree]

22. 'the Lost Cause ideology'

...this statue part of some rich prat's attempt in the early 20's to institutionalize his alternative history, not unlike the white supremacist movements today and their crafting of revisionist history.

A contemporary colonialist theme park...

[Mysterian]

19. Fuck off, traitor Lee!

If more men like you had rejected treason, you could have helped your country, rather than plunge it into a bloddy war.

[Talitha]

25. Melt it down and make bars for TFG's cell and handcuffs for insurrectionists.

[hunter]

26. If I was driving that truck I'd be taking the route with the low bridge.

Smashing the face of that sculpture into a concrete beam or steel girder would much improve it.

[johnp3907]

27. Yeah, that song popped into my head too.

“Virgil, quick come see! There goes Robert E. Lee!”

[Takket]

29. rot in hell you slavery loving, America hating, piece of shit.

[Polybius]

30. Did anyone salute him?

There had to be at least one Trumper who did.

[blogslug]

32. Twitter video: One Final Retreat

Link to tweet

[struggle4progress]

33. Hit the road, Jack

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. Good riddance

Link to tweet