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TexasTowelie

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Sun Oct 17, 2021, 09:39 PM Oct 2021

Removed Robert E. Lee statue now on display at Texas resort

TERLINGUA, Texas (AP) — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that the city of Dallas removed from a park and later sold in an online auction is now on display at a golf resort in West Texas.

The bronze sculpture, which was removed from the Dallas park in September 2017, is now at the Lajitas Golf Resort in Terlingua, Texas, the Houston Chronicle reported.

The 27,000-acre resort, which is privately owned by Dallas billionaire and pipeline mogul Kelcy Warren and managed by Scott Beasley, the president of Dallas-based WSB Resorts and Clubs, received the statue as a donation in 2019.

The 1935 sculpture by Alexander Phimister Proctor was among several Lee monuments around the U.S. that were removed from public view amid the fallout over racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.

Read more: https://www.itemonline.com/texas/removed-robert-e-lee-statue-now-on-display-at-texas-resort/article_df4b1aa0-ffc4-5ecf-b832-c331be333945.html
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Removed Robert E. Lee statue now on display at Texas resort (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2021 OP
About Mr. Warren: (totally figures...) CurtEastPoint Oct 2021 #1
Maybe a few more dollars can be squeezed from a rube. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2021 #2
Cool, right where it belongs, where only the rich, white christofascists have to look at it. Thomas Hurt Oct 2021 #3

CurtEastPoint

(18,548 posts)
1. About Mr. Warren: (totally figures...)
Sun Oct 17, 2021, 09:46 PM
Oct 2021

Warren donated $6 million to Governor Rick Perry's presidential campaign.[18] He also donated $103,000 to President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.[19]

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