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South Carolina Group Sues Charleston City School Board for Statue Removals
We don’t have to just take our replacement. Cultural genocide is evil. We must always use the tools at our disposal to stand against evil. - DD
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 woke mobs started rioting, he actually became an extension of that riot… The rioters were calling for the removal of the John C. Calhoun monument, but they couldn’t take it down, so he ordered it removed.”
The 115-foot tall monument, which stood at the center of Marion Square in Downtown Charleston since the late 1800s, was removed after a unanimous vote by the Charleston City Council, about a month after the death of George Floyd.
“And not only did he remove the statue, but then he had…