Travis: …
Smaller nations have to take more gambles. Part of the reason why Napoleon and Robert E. Lee are hailed as military geniuses is that they often pitted against larger armies which required audacious manoeuvres to overcome…
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This essay by Travis is the most recent C-C mention of Robert E. Lee I could find where comments are not yet closed. I did find this essay by Robert Hampton from three years ago that
is closed, that
is relevant, and can now be updated with information about Lee’s statue that was removed in Charlottesville and melted down to be usd in some sort of “guilt trip on Whitey” Negro art: Melted Heritage
There are fates worse than death: You could have a statue of yourself melted down by your enemies and turned into postmodern art. That’s the fate that awaits the famous Charlottesville Robert E. Lee statue. The Charlottesville City Council unanimously voted this week to give the removed statue to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. The black museum plans to melt it down and turn it into some grotesque art exhibit.
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“The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center (JSAAHC), a Black-led public research nonprofit in Charlottesville, Virginia, is looking for artists to transform the melted remains of the city’s Robert E. Lee statue into a new public work. Earlier this month, the organization opened the application for interested artists as part of the second phase of its Swords Into Plowshares initiative (March 3 2025).
“For the project’s artist selection process, a jury will choose up to five semi-finalists, who will be given $10,000 to develop design proposals for the new piece. Applicants are asked to upload a resume demonstrating their professional credentials, a statement of interest briefly describing what drew them to the project, and images and details of recently completed work. There is a $10 fee for the application, which will close at 11:59pm PT on April 25 2025.
“Following a public parks survey, the site of the future artwork is expected to be announced by the end of this year. The location will be chosen based on conversations with city officials, community feedback, and historical research, which Douglas said has involved examining the broader history of public parks, many of which originated from plantations and were later subjected to racist segregation under Virginia’s Public Exclusionary Act of 1926.”
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No doubt for them this is the big one. It’s true that the heyday of black worship is currently in decline, as a somewhat sobered nation is taking stock of all of their depredations. And when the statue is finally unveiled in a couple of years one can’t help think that its reception will be just a bit anti-climatic, certainly in comparison with the glee and joy that accompanied the news of the melting. But they will simply put their heads down and ignore the shifting tides of history.
And you can be sure when the great day comes all the lying media will be out in full force to announce the supposedly glorious end of what is really an unseemly project. The crowd will look on gravely and the public officials will speak of the horrid history of racism; it will seem like they have tin ears of course but that won’t stop them from trying to put on a brave face; after all they have Robert E Lee tied up in the worst kind of chains and it is, they think, they who will now control this memory. Nothing of course could be further from the truth, but they will proceed with their empty charade and their meaningless protest. As always with the negros it will be a poor thing but their own.
Source: Douglas Mercer’s (183) Transforming Robert Lee – White Biocentrism
