American History Begins to Reckon With its Confederate Racist Past & Present

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other and presented a challenge for his company but within hours it was in pieces and hauled away on his flatbed truck flanked by cheering crowds amidst a heavy police presence.</p><p id="acc6">White supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia violent protect in 2017, triggered a change in the city’s officials to remove other Confederate monuments in various states. In Virginia, the laws protected the removal of these Confederate artifacts or any memorials to war veterans. This law was amended by the new Democratic majority at the Statehouse and signed by Gov. Northam which put the fate of these statutes into the locals' hands as of July 1, 2020. Another key fighter for this removal was Delores McQuinn, a Democratic delegate, whose district includes Richmond, sponsored the 2020 war memorial legislation, and is an advocate of Richmond’s Black history in public places.</p><p id="2830">After George Floyd’s death, this confederate statue of Robert E. Lee became a place of demonstrators, (multigenerational, multiracial people, and all ethnicity), protesting and clashing with police where its pedestal was marred with colorful graffiti and hand-painted messages denouncing the police, systemic racism and inequality.</p><p id="3cd6">This National Historic Landmark district gets a renewed sense of respect after the dark stains of America's history of slavery and murder has begun to reckon the past with the present.</p><p id="255f">In an attempt to redeem his racist past deed, Gov. Northam was found to be a part of a scandal that had a racist photo in his medical school, henceforth he declared that he would do everything within his power to address Virginia’s racial inequalities and has been instrumental with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to lead a community-driven redesign for the whole avenue where these statues had graced the lands. He now proclaims with the removal of the statutes that a new day and a new era in Virginia had come and any artifacts that glorify and reiterate racism needs to be removed.</p><p id="8c4a">In conclusion, Confederate statues removal around the Country is a beginning step into a new direction for America with the hope that all people can live as Dr. King fought and died for.

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American History Begins to Reckon With its Confederate Racist Past & Present

How the removal of a statue can begin the healing of a nation, a people, and society

Photo by Steve Helber, AP

Since George Floyd’s death at the hands of ex-officer Chauvin, there had been many protests in the face of systemic racism from the White House to the back house in the deep deep cervices of the south for justice of all the George Floyd’s before him and after him along with the many confederate monuments and statutes that were instrumental in the past of suppressing and the killing of people of color.

Good news is happening in various states. Yesterday, Wednesday, the news advised that General Robert E. Lee's statue was being removed from the Richmond, Virginia Confederate capital. It is a victory for the civil rights activists and society making many wrongs right.

This statue came down in pieces in the midst of cheers and was hauled away on Wednesday, September 8, 2021, removing the last relic of the Civil War figures from the former capital of the Confederacy.

After a long-fought fight for removal, the Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam ordered the statue’s removal last year while the nationwide protest movement of George Floye’s death was loud and clear but litigation delayed the dismantling process until the Supreme Court cleared the way for removal.

This last Confederate statue that stood among four others that had been removed by the city last summer is massive and has stood there since 1890. It was dismantled as onlookers showed their approval and history reckoning with people of color. It will be laid in an undisclosed facility until a permanent place can be found or a decision made about its future.

The company, Team Henry Enterprises led by Devon Henry, a Black executive, received death threats regarding his company’s role in the removal of the other Richmond Confederate statues last year. Lee’s statue was more massive than the other and presented a challenge for his company but within hours it was in pieces and hauled away on his flatbed truck flanked by cheering crowds amidst a heavy police presence.

White supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia violent protect in 2017, triggered a change in the city’s officials to remove other Confederate monuments in various states. In Virginia, the laws protected the removal of these Confederate artifacts or any memorials to war veterans. This law was amended by the new Democratic majority at the Statehouse and signed by Gov. Northam which put the fate of these statutes into the locals' hands as of July 1, 2020. Another key fighter for this removal was Delores McQuinn, a Democratic delegate, whose district includes Richmond, sponsored the 2020 war memorial legislation, and is an advocate of Richmond’s Black history in public places.

After George Floyd’s death, this confederate statue of Robert E. Lee became a place of demonstrators, (multigenerational, multiracial people, and all ethnicity), protesting and clashing with police where its pedestal was marred with colorful graffiti and hand-painted messages denouncing the police, systemic racism and inequality.

This National Historic Landmark district gets a renewed sense of respect after the dark stains of America's history of slavery and murder has begun to reckon the past with the present.

In an attempt to redeem his racist past deed, Gov. Northam was found to be a part of a scandal that had a racist photo in his medical school, henceforth he declared that he would do everything within his power to address Virginia’s racial inequalities and has been instrumental with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to lead a community-driven redesign for the whole avenue where these statues had graced the lands. He now proclaims with the removal of the statutes that a new day and a new era in Virginia had come and any artifacts that glorify and reiterate racism needs to be removed.

In conclusion, Confederate statues removal around the Country is a beginning step into a new direction for America with the hope that all people can live as Dr. King fought and died for. The color of the skin does not define a person but the content of their character as Dr. King stated. People of color welcome the opportunity to work with whites who have issues working with people of color.

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