Anti-racism protesters are continuing to remove confederate emblems and monuments across the U.S..
Protesters in Virginia continued to target emblems of colonizers and the Confederacy on Wednesday, tearing down a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on Richmond’s Monument Avenue the day after demonstrators toppled a statue of Christopher Columbus and tossed it into a lake.... [+]The statue came down a week after Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney introduced an ordinance to remove the four confederate monuments positioned along the avenue in what was once the capital of the Confederacy.
Separately, protesters began dismantling four Confederate monuments in Portsmouth, VA, dismayed at the city council’s delay in taking them down. OneAt least 10 monuments commemorating the Confederacy have been removed across the U.S. in the midst of sweeping anti-racism protests following the death of George Floyd on May 25.
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam last week ordered a monument of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to be removed from Monument Avenue, but the move was temporarilyThe same monument was the flashpoint of a rally of white supremacists in Charlottesville in 2017, who protested its proposed removal. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has this week demanded 11 statues of Confederate figures be removed from Congress.The death of unarmed black man George Floyd after a white police officer knelt on his neck, has reignited debate in the U.S. and Europe about why racist figures, such as slavers and colonizers, and emblems of the Confederacy should be displayed so publicly, instead of placed in context within a museum.
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