https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/dec/19/second-wave-of-civil-war-reconstruction-erasing-hi/Quote:
We have reached the point in the collapse of American leftist ideology where they are digging up the dead.
But first, they defile the living.
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History has a special place for such hate. Richmond, Virginia, meanwhile, boasts a similar record of failure.
Last year, the city notched a 15-year record high for murders. The city's school system had the lowest graduation rate in the state. Sixty-five percent of public school students fail reading. Ninety percent fail math.
But what are Richmond city leaders singularly focused on? Tearing down the city's statues erected after the Civil War honoring the warriors who fought and died protecting Richmond during that brutal war.
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Memory, hope and inspiration are dashed. Murder is at a 15-year high. Hate reigns supreme.
What took Yankees four years with cannons and soldiers to do 150 years ago, modern Richmond city leaders did overnight.
But even that was not enough to quench city leaders' thirst for hate and desperate need to distract from the murder rates and failed schools for which they are entirely responsible.
The last vestige of Richmond's once-proud artistic history was a statue to Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill. That last monument was more than just a statue, however. It was the gravestone marking the spot where Gen. Hill was buried, but buried there no more. City crews tore down the statue last week. His family was forced to come and collect what was left of his remains and move them out of the city.
"My family name is being desecrated," said John Hill, who drove overnight from Ohio to carry out the grim task.
"Removing his remains was one of the saddest things I've ever had to do. The image of him in that hole will be in my head forever."
As John Hill dug around in a pit for the general's last bones, a crowd gathered outside to gawk, heckle and ridicule the ancestor of a brave general who was doing his duty. A brave general who owned no slaves, who fought to save Richmond a century and a half ago.
Mayor Levar Stoney among those most responsible for Richmond's failures today was among the graveside hecklers.
Of course some of our resident leftists will cheer this on because they want the entire history of this country wiped out, and for history to stop where nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. (To paraphrase Orwell.)
