‘Blow it up!’ Richmond gives gleeful send-off to Robert E Lee
For 131 years it loomed over Richmond, Virginia, once the capital of America’s slave-owning south, sending a chilling message about the resilience of white supremacy to generations that passed beneath.
But at 8.55am on 8 September, a giant statue of the Confederate general Robert E Lee and its granite pedestal, now covered with Black Lives Matter graffiti, was hoisted by work crews and lowered to the ground amid cheers, songs and whoops.
No one believed that this was
