Anonymous ID: c99981 Dec. 21, 2020, 8:09 a.m. No.12116895   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Virginia's Lee statue has been removed from the US Capitol

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that has represented Virginia in the U.S. Capitol for 111 years has been removed.

 

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said in a statement that workers removed the statue from the National Statuary Hall Collection early Monday morning.

 

Northam had requested the removal and a state commission decided that Lee was not a fitting symbol for the state.

 

Lee's statue had stood with George Washington's statue since 1909 as Virginia’s representatives in the Capitol. Every state gets two statues.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/virginias-lee-statue-removed-us-135334090.html