{"id":557185,"date":"2021-06-08T15:52:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T19:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=557185"},"modified":"2021-06-08T15:52:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T19:52:07","slug":"confederate-monuments-at-center-of-deadly-unite-the-right-rally-to-come-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/confederate-monuments-at-center-of-deadly-unite-the-right-rally-to-come-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Confederate Monuments At Center Of Deadly \u2018Unite The Right\u2019 Rally To Come Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fconfederate-monuments-at-center-of-deadly-unite-the-right-rally-to-come-down%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=557185&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1228020792.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The Confederate monuments in Charlottesville that were at the center of the deadly neo-Nazi rally in 2017 are set to be removed.<\/p>\n<p>The Charlottesville City Council voted unanimously Monday evening to take down the\u00a0statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson from public parks downtown.\u00a0More than 50 people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wavy.com\/news\/virginia\/virginia-city-council-votes-to-remove-confederate-statues\/\">reportedly<\/a> spoke during the virtual public hearing, most expressing the opinion that the statues should come down. The city <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottesville.gov\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=691\">resolved<\/a> to \u201cremove, relocate, contextualize or cover the Statues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to transforming our downtown parks by removing these racist symbols of Charlottesville\u2019s past,\u201d\u00a0Brian Wheeler, director of communications for the City of Charlottesville, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/08\/us\/charlottesville-confederate-statues\/index.html\">told<\/a> CNN. \u201cThere remains much work to be done in Charlottesville\u2019s future as we work towards the goals of racial and economic justice, but this is an important milestone in that journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In August, 2017, far-right groups including white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and members of the Ku Klux Klan gathered for the\u00a0\u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally in Charlottesville.\u00a0The event turned violent and then deadly when one protester rammed his car into a crowd of\u00a0counterprotesters, killing one woman, Heather Heyer.<\/p>\n<p>The rally was held to protest the removal of the city\u2019s Confederate statues, which was proposed in the wake of another incident of racial violence, the 2015 church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, where a white supremacist shot and killed nine black members of a congregation.<\/p>\n<p>The statues of Lee and Jackson will not come down immediately, as the state requires that 30 days pass before a city can offer them to a museum or other entity interested in preserving them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe City of Charlottesville offers the statues\/sculptures of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and Confederate General Thomas J. \u2018Stonewall\u2019 Jackson for relocation and placement to any museum, historical society, government or military battlefield,\u201d the city said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottesville.gov\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=691\">news alert<\/a> on its website.<\/p>\n<p>The statues, currently still erect in Market Street Park and Court Square Park respectively, have been <a href=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/news\/local\/robert-e-lee-stonewall-jackson-statues-vandalized-with-1619-in-charlottesville\">repeatedly<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc29.com\/2020\/05\/01\/charlottesvilles-lee-jackson-statues-vandalized-overnight\/\">vandalized<\/a> over the last several years. In 2019, both statues were spray-painted with \u201c1619,\u201d the year the\u00a0first slave ship arrived in Virginia. In May of last year, a vandal\u00a0spray-painted \u201cthe pandemic\u201d on the bases of both statues and added arrows pointing up to the statues.<\/p>\n<p>The Charlottesville rally became a heated controversy in former President Trump\u2019s presidency after he held a lengthy press conference in which he said there were \u201cvery fine people on both sides\u201d as well as \u201cblame on both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned, totally,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>Trump later attempted to clarify his remarks, saying that he was \u201ctalking about people who went because they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee, a great general.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Charlottesville violence also featured prominently in President Biden\u2019s announcement of his candidacy for president in 2019, Biden saying that Trump had \u201cstunned the world and shocked the conscience of this nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t forget what happened in Charlottesville,\u201d Biden said.\u00a0\u201cEven more important, we have to remember who we are. This is America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederate monuments in Charlottesville that were at the center of the deadly neo-Nazi rally in 2017 are set to be removed.The Charlottesville City Council voted unanimously Monday evening to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279650,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1228020792.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Confederate Monuments At Center Of Deadly \u2018Unite The Right\u2019 Rally To Come Down","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1228020792.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Confederate Monuments At Center Of Deadly \u2018Unite The Right\u2019 Rally To Come Down","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}