Plans to melt down Robert E. Lee statue on hold while lawsuit plays out

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Hat tip, WTOP, a few minutes ago on the radio.

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Plans to melt down Robert E. Lee statue on hold while lawsuit plays out

Liz Anderson | [e-mail]

June 27, 2022, 1:34 PM

The fight over whether to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from a Charlottesville, Virginia, park has morphed into one about what form the now-toppled replica should take.

The statue has been taken down and has been cut into pieces already, but The Washington Post reported the museum it was donated to — the Black-led Jefferson School African American Heritage Center — is holding off on plans to repurpose it while a lawsuit plays out.

The city voted in December to donate the statue to the Heritage Center, which had plans to melt down the bronze and create another piece of public art.

The Trevilian Station Battlefield Foundation and the Ratcliffe Foundation are accusing the City of Charlottesville of trying to erase history. The Jefferson School director told The Post the city is trying to heal, but that others are trying to dictate how they do so.

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[TlalocW]

1. Honestly what they should do with these pieces

Is put them all in a museum that taught both the history of the people they represent but more importantly and more prominently the history for why they were put up (always in response to minorities getting more rights). That way for all the people claiming that taking the statues down is destroying history, we could say that we're teaching the actual history now, and surely that makes them happy. Put up information about the various groups and who was in charge of them that wanted the statues and what they were protesting at the time.