Confederate Statues

Four in ten Democrats agree with removing statues of George Washington as some leftist cities consider doing so, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Thursday found.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper said Sunday on his show “State of the Union” that the statues of Confederate leaders in Congress are “tributes to traders” that honor political violence like the events of January 6, 2021.

The Charlottesville City Council has determined what will happen to a statue that was taken down in July, NBC 12 reported Tuesday.

The City of Charlottesville, Virginia, officially removed Saturday morning the statues of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, both of which have been a political flashpoint in the community since the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally.

The Democrat-led House on Tuesday voted to remove Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol — a move House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) mocked Democrats for, accusing them of attempting to hide their party’s “shameful” racist past.

The city of Charlottesville, Virginia, is allowed to remove two statues of Confederate generals, including one of Robert E. Lee, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday.

Over 10,000 people have signed a petition demanding the town of Anderson, South Carolina, replace its confederate statue with a memorial of Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, who died on Friday at 43 following a years-long battle with cancer.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) introduced a privileged resolution on Thursday that calls upon Congress to ban the Democrat Party supporting slavery and the Confederate States of America, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

A Washington Post/ABC poll shows a majority of Americans oppose removing statues of Confederate soldiers or U.S. presidents who had slaves.

Sunday MSNBC host Al Sharpton commented to TMZ about President Donald Trump’s remarks on “Fox News Sunday,” invoking Sharpton’s name while discussing renaming military bases that were named for Confederate leaders.

A Pennsylvania county commissioner recently called for Confederate statues at Gettysburg National Park to be removed, then deleted the online post due to major criticism.

Rumors of a Black Lives Matter protest at the statue of Sam Houston in Huntsville, Texas, are going viral. People posted updates on Facebook and Twitter promising to defend the 86-foot statue from protesters with “deadly force” if necessary.

Donald Trump’s reelection strategy should bind Joe Biden to recent lawlessness, including riots and vandalsim of monuments, said Charles Hurt.

Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) said on Sunday that he is “confident” that Republicans and Democrats could override President Donald Trump’s potential veto of a defense bill that would rename military bases named after Confederate generals. 

Destruction of statues is part of a “far-left fascism” that seeks to “overthrow the American Revolution,” said Donald Trump at Mount Rushmore.

A township in Michigan voted on Tuesday to keep a statue depicting Civil War soldiers, and a leftist group is warning the issue isn’t over.

Former Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe who sponsored a 2003 law protecting federal monuments, called for the defense of Andrew Jackson’s statue.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) proposed legislation on Thursday that restricts federal funding for leftist autonomous zones. 

Two years ago, President Trump was ridiculed for predicting the Woke Taliban would not stop with the destruction of Confederate statues.

GOP Senators from Mississippi told a local news outlet that statues representing states at the Capitol and a state’s flag is a state matter.

It’s not about saving Confederate statues. It’s about the rule of law… It’s about what comes next…

A greater percentage of U.S. registered voters believe Confederate statues, which have been targeted by protesters in recent weeks, should remain standing despite activists’ demands to remove them, a Morning Consult poll released this week revealed.

Chinese state propaganda outlet Global Times on Thursday branded increasingly breathless efforts to destroy statues, disappear films and books, and otherwise erase unsavory history in the United States “America’s Cultural Revolution,” a reference to the massacres under Mao Zedong in the 1960s.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) this week formally requested the removal of Confederate statues occupying the U.S. Capitol. However, her father, Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr., oversaw the dedication of such a statue in Baltimore — the Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument.

The city of Jacksonville, Florida, will be removing Confederate monuments city-wide, Mayor Lenny Curry (R) announced this week, with the city already removing a 122-year-old statue honoring fallen Confederate soldiers in downtown’s Hemming Park.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Wednesday called for the removal of various Confederate statues from Capitol Hill, according to a letter obtained by ABC News. 

A judge on Monday temporarily blocked Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s order to tear down a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

A pair of Virginia Democrat lawmakers have asked Gov. Ralph Northam (D) to remove General Robert E. Lee’s statue from the U.S. Capitol next year. 

The University of North Carolina system announced this week that they will pay $2.5 million to remove and relocate the “Silent Sam” Confederate monument from the Chapel Hill campus.

Chatham County has removed a Confederate monument that stood for 100 years in front of the county’s courthouse in Pittsboro, North Carolina.

A state judge in Virginia ruled on Wednesday that the city of Charlottesville cannot legally move the two statues to Confederate generals that sparked mass protests.

A woman was allegedly caught on camera defacing two Confederate monuments in North Carolina in the early hours of the Fourth of July, according to law enforcement.

The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill chancellor abruptly resigned on Monday — but before doing so, authorized that the remains of a Confederate statue be removed from where it once stood on campus.

The Dallas City Council was expected to vote Wednesday on a resolution that called for demolishing one Confederate monument and auctioning off another. Instead, they postponed making major decisions, voting 9-6 to review more options for a Confederate War Memorial. Then, they voted 10-5, without discussion, not to sell a statue of General Robert E. Lee but did not indicate what the city would do with it either.

The Dallas City Council will introduce a resolution next week that may well seal the fates of its Confederate monuments. It calls for the “demolition and removal” of a 122-year-old historical Confederate War Memorial. It also seeks to auction off the bronze equestrian statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, shuttered in a hangar since city officials removed it in September.

A 100-year-old Confederate monument will remain standing in the town square of a North Texas county, meeting a very different fate than did a historical statue of General Robert E. Lee in nearby Dallas.