Robert E. Lee Descendant Calls For Removal Of Confederate Statues. Slave photo discovered from Robert E. Lee's home. PragerU Releases Hilariously BAD Video To Defend Robert E. Lee Statues. Cenk And Ana React To Right-Wing's Desperate Racism. Watch Steve Bannon's Full Interview With MSNBC's Ari Melber. Why Andrew Jackson’s Legacy is so Controversial. How The U.S. Got So Many Confederate Monuments. While every statue in every town has a different origin, taken together, the roughly 700 Confederate monuments in the United States tell a national story.
Many of these commemorations of those on the losing side of the Civil War are a lot newer than one might think. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which compiled a list of these monuments last year, these monuments are spread over 31 states plus the District of Columbia—far exceeding the 11 Confederate states that seceded at the outset of the Civil War. Most of these monuments did not go up immediately after the war’s end in 1865. During that time, commemorative markers of the Civil War tended to be memorials that mourned soldiers who had died, says Mark Elliott, a history professor at University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Confederate symbols: Indiana school bans them on clothing. Why my Virginia town's 'slave block' should be removed from our sight. As hurricanes ravage large parts of the US, another kind of tempest continues in my hometown of Fredericksburg, Virginia, over whether to move a pre-civil war slave auction block from a prominent historic district corner to be housed at the local museum.
I signed the petition to remove the now infamous slave auction block and was surprised to see the local political controversy elevated to the world stage in last week’s article, penned by fellow Fredericksburg native David Caprara. To put it frankly, I believe Caprara buried the lede. Mémoire de l’esclavage : « Débaptisons les collèges et les lycées Colbert ! » A l’initiative de Louis-Georges Tin, président du CRAN, et du philosophe Louis Sala-Molin, plusieurs personnalités signent une tribune afin que le nom de Colbert, ministre de Louis XIV et acteur de la légalisation de l’esclavage, soit retiré de l’espace public.
LE MONDE | • Mis à jour le | Par Louis-Georges Tin (président du Conseil représentatif des associations noires de France (CRAN) Tribune. Tous les médias ont parlé de Charlottesville, de la statue du général Lee, de la « white supremacy », etc. Mais rares sont ceux qui ont évoqué ce problème dans le contexte français. Statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee removed from Dallas park. Crews arranged by Dallas officials removed a statue of Robert E.
Lee from a pedestal Thursday and carted it away from a park named for the Confederate general. In an unannounced move, a large crane was brought through the city by a police escort to Lee Park, where it lifted the large statue from its pedestal late Thursday afternoon. City officials said in a statement that an art conservator monitored the proper handling of the statue, and police tactical officers with automatic rifles provided security.
Liberals in a Tizzy - Walter E. Williams. Many blacks and their white liberal allies demand the removal of statues of Confederate generals and the Confederate battle flag, and they are working up steam to destroy the images of Gens.
Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee and President Jefferson Davis from Stone Mountain in Georgia. KKK denied permit to burn cross atop symbolic mountain in Georgia. What Will Happen to Stone Mountain, America’s Largest Confederate Memorial? Baltimore uprooted General Lee under the cover of night.
New Orleans removed its four Confederate statues to mixed reactions—some voicing relief, others, disapproval. And with the violence that followed the events in Charlottesville, when white nationalists killed one counter-protestor and injured 19 more, the question of how America deals with its history of racism has continued to grow in urgency. But what’s a state to do when the monument in question is carved 42 feet deep and 400 feet above ground into a granite mountain, with figures of General Lee, General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis larger than the presidential visages of Mount Rushmore?
A Brief History of a 15-Million-Year-Old Mountain At 1,683 feet tall, with a base circumference of 3.8 miles, Stone Mountain is an imposing feature in the otherwise even terrain. Qui était le général Lee, le Sudiste devenu l'icône de l'extrême droite américaine ? Chevelure abondante, barbe blanche bien taillée et œil bleu azur fixant l'horizon (ou l'ennemi qui s'avance).
Ainsi nous est transmise depuis le XIXe siècle l'image du général Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870), général en chef des armées confédérées durant la guerre de Sécession, devenu une icône sudiste. Historic Theater Removes Insensitive ‘Gone With the Wind’ from Summer Film Festival. The epic 1939 drama depicting a tale of romance during the Civil War has been banished from a Memphis theater’s summer film festival because it may offend thin-skinned people.
According to Memphis CBS affiliate WREG 3 “Orpheum theater won’t show ‘Gone With the Wind,’ calling film ‘insensitive’”: “Gone With the Wind” will be gone from The Orpheum’s summer movie series, the theater’s board said Friday.The Orpheum Theatre Group decided not to include the 1939 movie about a plantation in the Civil War-era South in its 2018 Summer Movie Series after feedback from patrons following the last screening Aug. 11. By deeming a classic like “Gone With the Wind” which won ten Oscars to be so offensive that it is effectively being censored will only embolden the cultural jihadists to go after other films as well. Gone with the Wind removed from theater due to racial sensitivity. Yes, Gone With the Wind Is Another Neo-Confederate Monument. A 121-year-old Confederate monument was coming down. This Kentucky town put it back up. BRANDENBURG, Ky. — The leaders in this small town said they wanted history to be preserved, not erased, so they piled into a car last summer for what they considered an important mission: to save a Confederate monument from possible destruction.
The monument had stood in Louisville for 121 years — 70 feet tall, more than 100 tons of granite. But Louisville wanted it removed and called a public meeting to help determine its relocation. One speaker said the structure should be “obliterated.” Another said he would gladly help drop it into the river. And then, one by one, up to the microphone came the people from Brandenburg. États-Unis. La ville où les statues de confédérés sont les bienvenues. L’été dernier, Brandenburg, petite bourgade du Kentucky, avait accueilli presque dans l’indifférence générale un monument représentant des soldats confédérés démonté dans la ville voisine.
Jefferson Davis Statue in New Orleans Is Removed - The New York Times. États-Unis. Dans le Sud, la guerre des statues est déclarée. Les anciens États confédérés doivent-ils se débarrasser des symboles de leur passé esclavagiste ? De Virginie jusqu’en Louisiane, la polémique fait rage. Samedi 14 mai, “un petit groupe de manifestants portant des flambeaux, incluant le nationaliste blanc Richard Spencer, s’est rassemblé à Charlottesville, en Virginie, pour protester contre le déboulonnage programmé de la statue du général des confédérés Robert E. Lee”, rapporte le quotidien britannique The Guardian. Le conseil municipal de Charlottesville a, en effet, voté au mois d’avril dernier le déboulonnage de la statue du général Lee, défenseur du Sud esclavagiste pendant la guerre de Sécession, une décision ajournée pour six mois par un juge local saisi par un collectif d’historiens et de défenseurs de l’héritage confédéré. Pour le nationaliste blanc Richard Spencer, interviewé par The Guardian, il ne s’agissait pas d’“évoquer la mémoire du KKK”.
Calls to Drop Confederate Emblems Spread Nationwide - The New York Times. Confederate Flag: Turning the Tide on a Symbol of the South - WSJ. Once politically sacrosanct, Confederate flag moves toward an end. South Carolina House Votes to Remove Confederate Flag - The New York Times. Royaume-Uni. Les Américains font le tri dans leurs statues, et nous. KKK denied permit to burn cross atop symbolic mountain in Georgia. Trump defends 'beautiful' Civil War statues. Image copyright Getty Images US President Donald Trump has denounced the removal of "beautiful" Confederate statues amid a heated national debate about US race relations. University of Texas at Austin Removes Confederate Statues in Overnight Operation - The New York Times.
Ukraine has removed all 1,320 statues of Lenin. Ukraine has removed all 1,320 statues of the communist revolutionary Lenin following a government drive to rid the country of Soviet-era symbols. Monuments to the Bolshevik leader have been dismantled in every town, village and city controlled by the Kiev-based government that brought down pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych three years ago, according to officials. The anti-Soviet initiative, which also orders the renaming of streets and cities, was made law by President Petro Poroshenko in May 2015, according to The Times.
Many places have been named after Ukranian heroes, however a Lenin Street in Zakarpattia, a western region, was renamed Lennon Street in a tribute to the Beatles. Volodymyr Viatrovych, director of the Institute of National Remembrance, confirmed that every Lenin statue had been removed along with 1,069 other Soviet monuments. Despite the policy, Communist relics still remain in the eastern parts of Ukraine controlled by Kremlin-backed forces.
Richmond mayor on Confederate monument debate: Trump 'doesn't live here' In the wake of the unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, that was sparked by plans to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, the mayor of nearby Richmond said that while he respects President Donald Trump’s views on Confederate monuments, the president “doesn’t live here.” Un homme inculpé pour avoir voulu faire exploser une statue confédérée au Texas. University of Texas removes 4 Confederate statues overnight. The University of Texas at Austin is removing four Confederate monuments that it says have become symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism, the school announced on Sunday. The university said the monuments -- which honor four figures tied to the Confederacy -- were erected during the period of segregation and “represent the subjugation of African Americans” and therefore should be taken down.
The statues -- which depict confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Albert Sidney Johnston, former U.S. Sen. John Reagan and former Texas Governor James Stephen Hogg -- were taken down early Monday morning. University of Texas removes Jefferson Davis statue. UT-Austin removes Jefferson Davis statue. UT removes Jefferson Davis statue. Photo: Texas Tribune, @bobphoto The University of Texas at Austin on Sunday morning removed a statue of Jefferson Davis from its main mall, over the objections and amid ongoing legal action by Confederate groups. Pence says Confederate statues are state, local decision.