‘Symbols matter,’ said Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam
Gov. Ralph Northam, D-Va., and Democratic Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney announced Thursday that state and city governments had reached an agreement to transfer the ownership of the city’s recently removed Confederate monuments to the Black History Museum.
The museum intends to partner with The Valentine and other cultural institutions in Richmond to “determine the proper future use of each piece in the collection,” according to a Thursday press release from the City of Richmond. The museum will also receive the empty pedestals on which the statues stood.
The city’s monument of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill will not be transferred to the museum because his remains are buried beneath it.
The time capsules recently uncovered in the Lee monument are also not included the transfer to the museum, according to Greg Werkheiser, a founding partner of Cultural Heritage Partners, advisors to the Black History Museum and the Valentine.
“The Department of Historic Resources is still figuring out exactly what’s in them, how to preserve them,” Werkheiser said, according to a local NBC affiliate. “That process is going to take some time, so no one is ready to decide just yet what happens to those.”
No right !!! This must stop !!! Put Back the Monuments !!!! Bad enough they take down White History & now
they put the monuments in a Black Jail to punish the monuments !!!
First ORDER from the New Governor should be PUT BACK THE DAMN MONUMENTS !!!! & FLAGS !!!!
Hiding White History in a Black Museum !!!! Erasing White Culture !!!
The Generals would be rolling in their graves to find their statues are in a Black Museum !!! Illegal
Slap in the White American’s Face !!! Lets take down the MLK one & put it in OH, there are No
White Museums !!!???
WHO thought THIS was a good idea??
What? Were they sitting around and talking about what to do with all these monuments and statues, when some idiot democrat said, “hey, how about we give them to some black organization for their care and safekeeping??”
The same people who demanded they take them down because just LOOKING at them was painful and leaving them with lifelong emotional scars? THEY are the best people to now POSSESS these things??
The same people who put up statues and murals of gangsters, drug dealers, louts, thieves, convicts, and women-beaters as THEIR heroes and examples of who THEY admire??
Democrats.
Can they do ANYTHING to UNITE people?
Democrats.
The dumbest people.
Hang them ALL, while we still can.
Erasing American’s Own History & Culture > Taking down OUR Monuments by Racist Anti-American Democrats