A Charleston, South Carolina, group aiming to preserve southern United States history is suing the local government and school board to return statues of Vice President John C. Calhoun and Confederate General Robert E. Lee to their original displays after they were removed by leftists during the 2020-2021 Black Lives Matter movement.
Brett Barry, president of the American Heritage Association (AHA), gave Breitbart News Saturday host Matthew Boyle the run-down of why the two statues are important, and why they should be reinstated:
“I moved to Charleston in 2015, largely because it was a town that truly respected and remembered its history. But then, in 2020, it took a complete change,” Barry explained. “We had former Mayor [John] Tecklenburg in office — and when the
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