Best part of this article on the Robert E. Lee statue from Charlottesville - watching his head get torched!

[hatrack]

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Cities and counties around the South have wrestled with their Confederate iconography in the wake of both Charlottesville’s Unite the Right rally and the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020. Richmond hauled an army of bronze Confederates to a water treatment plant before loaning several to museums in California. In North Carolina, several towns shipped their monuments to a new Valor Memorial Park on private land.

But few localities have gone as far as Charlottesville, where all that remains of Lee is a pile of bronze ingots. Nearly three dozen artists and design firms submitted ideas for reusing that bronze, and the Swords into Plowshares nonprofit has winnowed the group down to three finalists.

“This is not, as some of our detractors say, an attempt to erase history, but rather to kind of tell a fuller version of it by using the materials from the past that have caused a lot of pain,” said Jalane Schmidt, a University of Virginia religious studies professor and co-founder of Swords into Plowshares.

The group faced threats and a lawsuit over its plan to melt the nearly century-old statue of Lee, and had to carry out the job in secret in 2023 out of security concerns. But Schmidt said she is relieved they acted when they did now that President Donald Trump is leading a call to restore Confederate names and iconography in public spaces, such as a memorial he wants erected again in Arlington National Cemetery.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/23/bronze-charlottesville-melted-robert-e-lee-statue-become-art/

https://wapo.st/4a7DhvJ

[Goonch]

1. ;-{)......

[rampartd]

2. alt right outrage over the confederate statues

leading to the wholesale destruction of "dei" monuments .

i'm gonna insist on detrumpification as soon as possible , and will personally climb the arch with a hammer and chisel to throw down gold bricks.