Duke University removes damaged Robert E. Lee statue

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Jonathan Drew, Associated Press
 Updated 7:09 pm, Saturday, August 19, 2017



DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Duke University removed a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee early Saturday after it was vandalized amid a national debate about monuments to the Confederacy.

The university said it removed the carved limestone likeness before dawn from the entryway to Duke Chapel, where it stood among 10 historical figures. Officials discovered early Thursday that the statue's face had been gouged and scarred and that part of the nose is missing.
 
Another statue of Lee, the top Confederate general during the Civil War, was the focus of the violent protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, that turned deadly a week ago.

Duke University president Vincent Price said in a letter to the campus community that he consulted with faculty, staff, students and alumni before deciding to remove the statue.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Duke-University-removes-statue-of-Confederate-11944182.php#photo-13861333

[Bladewire]

1. How long before the Trump supports start doing the same to non racist statues?

[Judi Lynn]

2. Statues of people who don't support lifelong abuse of powerless human beings?

They are stupid, and evil enough to think they should "get even," but somehow the human race just might survive that terror!

[christx30]

4. Replace all statues of Lee with status of General Sherman. n/t

[Yupster]

6. That really is bad

To me that's just defacing art.

I'll speak out against it.

[gopiscrap]

3. On a chapel? A house of worship?

Lee had no business being on the edifice of the church to begin with!

[dalton99a]

5. No shit.