“I think it wiser, moreover, not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered.” How did Lee feel about Confederate statues? Perhaps it’s best to refer to his own writing on the matter.
Less than one week after a group of white supremacists rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the removal of a monument depicting Robert E. Lee, U.S. parks officials aren’t holding back words about their plans for monuments.
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This Tuesday June 27, 2017, photo shows the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that stands in the middle of a traffic circle on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va.
Richmond, Va. Mayor directed a commission to consider removing Confederate statues from Monument Avenue. Mayor Levar M. Stoney says he believes the towering Confederate statues on Monument Avenue, considered by some to be the historic backbone of Richmond, the former capitol of the Confederacy, should be removed.
There are also more democratic calls for their removal: The University of Texas-Austin student government circulated an online petition Sunday asking university president Greg Fenves to remove the Davis statue. Even in smaller towns like Statesboro, Ga., petitions are circulating calling for the removal of statues of Confederate soldiers.
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