Even after the Charlottesville city council voted to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, questions remain on what to with it next.
A statue of Confederate General Robert Edward Lee is seen in Market Street Park during the first day of jury selection for James Fields's murder trial at the Charlottesville Circuit Court, November 26, 2018 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
By this point, the so-called lost cause propaganda — a narrative that casts the Confederacy’s racist mission in a positive light — had taken hold across the South. The first wave of Confederate statues to promote this idea went up in cemeteries but soon bled into public spaces. The first Confederate statue erected in downtown Charlottesville was installed in 1909 in front of the courthouse, Schmidt says.
A patch of dead grass marks where the Robert E. Lee statue once stood. The statue’s fate is currently tied up in the courts. “We got the word the day before that the city would be removing them,” Bixby says. “There were a lot of concerns about security, which was somewhat understandable in terms of concerns about not wanting a repeat of 2017.”“As the crane started to pull it up, that was when everybody started to cheer,” she says. “That was a really profound thing to see.”
The recasting will mark a new direction for Charlottesville, she says. But melting down the structure of Robert E. Lee has sparked anger. Melting down the statue eliminates opportunities to discuss what it stood for, Weber says. As he sees it, the fight over the Lee statue is about deleting history.But Douglas says removing the statue does not erase the past.
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