A nearly century-old statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was quietly melted down this week, with plans to use the materials to construct a new social justice-approved something-or-other that will help minority communities "heal" from the 16-year-old scars of slavery, even as they drown in poverty and crime thanks to left-wing policies.
But I digress.
The iconic monument, which featured Lee sitting atop his horse, Traveller, was the centerpiece of the 2017 Charlottesville rally that left one person dead and about a million leftists calling every Trump voter a Nazi. The statue was finally taken down in 2021 amid a spate of Confederate statues, monuments, and memorials being ripped down across the country following the death of George Floyd (and subsequent Black Lives Matter riots - can’t forget those fun times).
The City of Charlottesville donated the statue to a group that planned to melt it down and turn it into “something new” - an effort that apparently started this week when the monument was hacked into a 2,250-degree furnace and turned into lava. The effort has been so covert, in fact, that NPR said in its report that the foundry where the statue was melted down is being kept secret for “security” reasons.
During the process of melting down the Lee figure, a torch was used to deliberately carve off the face in a particularly macabre move.
Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue has met its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace.
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 26, 2023
The divisive Confederate monument, the focus of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, was secretly melted down and will become a new piece of public art.
More on the process:… pic.twitter.com/XatZUfvku3
Andrea Douglas, executive director of the Jefferson School African American Cultural Center in Charlottesville, said intentionally removing the face from the statue is “emblematic.”
"The act of myth-making that has occurred around Robert E. Lee, removing his face is emblematic of the kind of removal of that kind of myth," Douglas told NPR.
Lovely.
The process of melting down the statue and turning it into a new "inclusive" art piece to erect in the city is predicted to take weeks.
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