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Well, it was a good idea while it lasted.
I’m referring to the removal of public monuments of known racists.
But the law—in that comfortable cradle of great virtue the world knows as Charlottesville, Va.,—has prevailed.
And it’s the celebration of racist business as usual.
On Wednesday, a judge in the fair, ahem, city ruled the controversial statues of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Stonewall Jackson must stay where they are.
This is a slap in the face to the February 2017 vote by the Charlottesville City Council to remove the statue of Lee, which sparked the shameful “Unite the Right” white nationalist rally that left counter-protestor, Heather Heyer, dead and 28 people injured when a white supremacist plowed into them with his 2010 Dodge Challenger.
According to WTOP, Circuit Court Judge Richard Moore ruled the memorials cannot and will not be touched.