{"id":322565,"date":"2017-08-21T03:48:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T02:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/breaking-charlottesville-to-keep-only-non-racist-war-monuments\/"},"modified":"2017-08-21T03:48:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T02:48:31","slug":"breaking-charlottesville-to-keep-only-non-racist-war-monuments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/breaking-charlottesville-to-keep-only-non-racist-war-monuments\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Charlottesville to Keep Only Non-Racist War Monuments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Under the new policy just announced in Charlottesville, Virginia, the city will be taking down all but the non-racist war monuments and memorials in all of its public spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Three monuments to the Confederate war, fought to maintain slavery \u2014 those of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and a generic Confederate soldier \u2014 will all be removed under the new guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>In addition a heroic equestrian monument to George Rogers Clark is coming down, as Native American genocide has been ruled racist.<\/p>\n<p>A statue of Lewis and Clark almost made the cut as not being a traditional war monument, but the figure of Sacagawea kneeling at their feet like a dog has apparently been sufficient to bump also this statue, which stands in a major Charlottesville intersection, onto the list of those to be moved to a museum.<\/p>\n<p>Further, a memorial to the war that killed 3.8 million Vietnamese \u2014 although \u201cVietnamese\u201d is a more polite and less commonly used term for the people killed than several others employed at the time by U.S. war makers \u2014 is going to be removed as well.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Virginia has also agreed to take down its World War I monument after reviewing a display of propaganda posters from that era depicting \u201cthe Hun\u201d as a subhuman monster, as well as four-minute-men presentations advocating for a race war against an evil race.<\/p>\n<p>Remaining standing in Charlottesville as examples of monuments to non-racist wars will be . . . nothing whatsoever. But a commission&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/08\/breaking-charlottesville-to-keep-only-non-racist-war-monuments\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the new policy just announced in Charlottesville, Virginia, the city will be taking down all but the non-racist war monuments and memorials in all of its public spaces. Three monuments to the Confederate war, fought to maintain slavery \u2014 those of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and a generic Confederate soldier \u2014 will all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-322565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}