Confederate statue is bulldozed as mayor livestreams it, video shows. 'Not in my town'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A North Carolina town watched live online as a bulldozer pushed down its Confederate monument.

Mondale Robinson, the mayor of Enfield, North Carolina, took to Facebook to share a livestream as a Confederate monument in the town’s Randolph Park was demolished by a bulldozer on Sunday, Aug. 21.

“Yes, sirs! Death to the Confederacy around here,” Robinson said in the video as a bulldozer knocked the monument over. “Not in my town. Not on my watch.”

Enfield, North Carolina, is a town of about 2,300 situated about 70 miles northeast of Raleigh. The town’s board of commissioners voted 4-1 to remove the statue at an Aug. 15 meeting, according to The Daily Herald.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/confederate-statue-bulldozed-mayor-livestreams-213136643.html

[joe_stampingbull]

1. Confederates did not want to be Americans

why honor them?

[progressoid]

2. Nice...

“We voted for it to be gone. It’s gone,” Robinson said in a separate livestream. “It’s just a dead statue to a dead idea: the Confederacy. ... What once was can now be more space for people to do yoga, workout, or anything else except for come here and worship the Confederate flag or the Confederacy.”

[progressoid]

3. Also, don't read the comments.

Holy shit.

[MontanaMama]

4. Boy howdy.

The dregs of society for sure.

[Sky Jewels]

5. Good job, Mayor!

Fuck the Confederacy — the treasonous enemy of the United States.

[jmowreader]

6. This is Mondale Robinson

He definitely has the "I don't give a shit about the feelings of right-wing snowflakes" vibe to him.

[electric_blue68]

9. Ha! I'd say so! I love his expression! But ...

...he needs extra protect now.. 😔

[EnergizedLib]

7. I hope for his safety

I fear he may need to have his protection increased.

As I’m concerned, Confederates were traitors. Since when do we honor traitors?

[electric_blue68]

10. Yup. As it's been pointed out no orher country has statues up of people lost an internal war.

[EnergizedLib]

11. I think I know what that's called

Racists being sore losers or something to that effect.

[electric_blue68]

13. By Jove, I believe you've got it.

[orthoclad]

8. It's now a crime scene

https://www.witn.com/2022/08/22/crime-scene-tape-surrounds-confederate-monument-taken-down-by-enfields-mayor/

The State Bureau of Investigation is investigatin': "Crime scene tape now surrounds the monument."

"An SBI spokeswoman told WITN News this afternoon that their investigation began at the request of the police chief and the district attorney."

Boys in blue, or boys in gray?

Should we start a bail fund? Canada might give him asylum.

[electric_blue68]

12. Yikes. Boys in blue & gray & white (sheets). 😔

[orthoclad]

14. Mayor Robinson is a brave man

threatened from top and bottom: Covfeferate citizens and State pressure.

He was brave enough to do it without asking permission from the State or the Daughters of the Covfeferacy, who donated it to the town when the Klan was resurging after WWI (think Birth Of A Nation), and most of the gray monuments were erected.

That po-lice chief needs to be fired.

[electric_blue68]

15. He sure effing Is!

He shouldn't have to ask permission, I mean, they're traitors!

And that statuary was put up to puff up Confederate lovers, and terrorize Black people post Civil War.

[orthoclad]

16. I was thinking

of the saying "easier to ask forgiveness than permission" and being a bit snarky when I used the word "permission".
But actually: most Confederate monuments went up in the 1920s, during the period that saw the Tulsa massacre and the 2nd incarnation of the Klan -- which is when this one was built.

[electric_blue68]

17. I know most were put up later...

probably that Klan March in DC was from then

[Vogon_Glory]

18. I didn't watch the entire video, but His Honor

The Mayor was definitely definite.

And the good people of Enfield, NC deserve to have their public space back.

[JHB]

20. At the bottom right there's a link for you to self-delete your own posts

Double-posts aren't within the scope of what forum hosts or MIRT remove, so if you think the duplicate should be deleted, you're the only one to do it.

[Eugene]

21. North Carolina mayor under investigation after livestreaming teardown of Confederate monument

North Carolina mayor under investigation after livestreaming teardown of Confederate monument (The Hill)

North Carolina’s State Bureau of Investigation (NCSBI) confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday that it has received requests from Enfield Police Department Chief James Ayers and its District Attorney Andrew Murray to launch an investigation into the property damage at the park where the monument had stood.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3613999-north-carolina-mayor-under-investigation-after-live-streaming-tear-down-of-confederate-monument/