The Jefferson Davis statue in Richmond, Va., has been vandalized with the words "Black Lives Matter." This came one day after Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe said he wouldn't sign a petition to remove statues of Confederates from Richmond's Monument Avenue. There are several petitions calling for their removal.
Confederate statues have been vandalized nationwide, including ones in Baltimore and Charleston, S.C..
There is some talk about what to do about the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. since both men owned slaves. Evidently these were really bad men because they owned slaves.
There is a call to remove statues of former Confederates in the U.S. Capitol.
One of these is that of Alexander Hamilton Stevens, the vice president of the Confederacy. There are ten such persons in Statuary Hall who are Confederate leaders or people who supported the new country. Each state has two statues in there. Others include Lee, Davis, Edmund Kirby Smith of Florida and James Zachariah George of Mississippi.
In addition, there are other statues and portraits of Confederates all over public buildings in D.C..
--Old Secesh
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