Iconoclasts melted Robert E. Lee’s statue. Here’s what they’ll deform his bronze into.

Five years ago, Charlottesville’s nearly century-old Robert E. Lee statue was torn down, chopped up, and melted at the urging of woke iconoclasts. The remains are now destined to be further deformed into an African symbol by a black identitarian.

How it started

Paul Goodloe McIntire, one of Charlottesville’s top individual benefactors if not its greatest, commissioned several statues for the city in the early 20th century including one depicting Robert E. Lee.

‘Equity and justice are integral.’

The gifted Lee statue was unveiled in what is now Market Street Park on May 21, 1924, where it stood for nearly a century. It was removed, however, on July 10, 2021 — several years after the deadly “Unite the Right” rally, which the Southern Poverty Law Center allegedly had a