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TexasTowelie

(126,651 posts) Sat Nov 30, 2019, 06:51 AM Nov 2019

'This is racist,' IMPEACH TRUMP' spraypainted on Lee statue [View all]

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- The downtown statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has been vandalized again.

Someone painted “this is racist” on the Downtown Mall side of the statue’s base on Thursday night. The other side was tagged with “IMPEACH TRUMP.”

Charlottesville officials placed tarps over the graffiti because city offices were closed Friday and no one was available to clean them.

City spokesman Brian Wheeler said parks and recreation staff will remove the graffiti on Monday and that it could be “time consuming.”

Read more: https://www.roanoke.com/news/virginia/this-is-racist-impeach-trump-spraypainted-on-lee-statue/article_f1d2ab0c-51ec-5d1e-b941-cd41a752fa51.html
(Roanoke Times)

The base of the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was covered by Charlottesville officials on Friday after “this is racist” and “IMPEACH TRUMP” were spray-painted on it.
NOLAN STOUT | The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress

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'This is racist,' IMPEACH TRUMP' spraypainted on Lee statue [View all] TexasTowelie Nov 2019 OP

UVA beat Tech! underpants Nov 2019 #1

Let's come to agreement on the statues. Perhaps peace should be emphasized. NCjack Nov 2019 #2

As long as they insist on keeping a statue to a man who was a traitor to the US Farmer-Rick Nov 2019 #3

These Confederates are Losers as well as Racists. djacq Nov 2019 #4