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December 21, 2020
Jack Mayer, Office of Governor Northam.
VIRGINIA – Virginia’s statute of Confederate general Robert E. Lee was removed from the United States Capitol overnight on Sunday, according to Governor Ralph Northam’s office. A representative from the office was there for the removal, as well as Senator Tim Kaine and Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton.
In a statement, the Governor said in part, “We should all be proud of this important step forward for our Commonwealth and our country. The Confederacy is a symbol of Virginia’s racist and divisive history, and it is past time we tell our story with images of perseverance, diversity, and inclusion.”
The Commission on Historical Statues in the United States Capitol has recommended that civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns represent Virginia in the National Statuary Hall Collection, replacing the existing statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
Gov. Ralph Northam has also announced that his proposed budget includes dearly $500,000 to replace the statue.
“On April 23, 1951, sixteen-year-old Barbara Rose Johns led a student walkout at Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, protesting the overcrowded and inferior conditions of the all-Black school compared to those of White students at nearby Farmville High School,” a release said.
Her actions got the support of NAACP lawyers Spottswood Robinson and Oliver Hill, who took up her case and filed a lawsuit that would later be one fo five cases the United States Supreme Court reviewed in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka when it declared segregation unconstitutional.
RICHARD REID
Special to The T&D
Fifty years ago, Orangeburg County initiated an educational system that completely changed the course of the social side of life for the people both Black and white.
While the United States Supreme Court rendered its decision on segregated schools in 1954, South Carolina and Orangeburg County delayed full desegregation until the 1970 school year when the last appeal was denied.
That year was the beginning of school consolidation for Orangeburg County.
In 1963, the first Blacks enrolled into the all-white schools in the City of Orangeburg.
Then in 1964, Orangeburg began operating under a âfreedom of choiceâ plan. The separate but equal facilities for the Blacks and for the whites gave way, slowly but surely, to an integrated system of consolidating the schools.
‘Morning Joe’ Disgusted by Trump’s Attempts to Overturn Election: ‘These People!’ (Video)
President and his team continue to peddle baseless claims of voter fraud even after the electoral college voted Joe Biden the winnerLindsey Ellefson | December 21, 2020 @ 7:54 AM
Monday’s “Morning Joe” broke down President Trump and his team’s continued efforts to overturn the election results even after the electoral college cast their votes for Joe Biden, leading co-host Mika Brzezinski to exasperatedly declare, “These people!”
Both NBC News and the New York Times reported that Trump considered appointing his lawyer Sidney Powell as special counsel to investigate what claims of potential voter fraud. There has been no conclusive proof any major voter fraud took place in the 2020 election.
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The Trump campaign on Sunday filed an appeal to the United States Supreme Court asking it to reverse three decisions by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in which the activist court changed the state’s mail ballot law prior to and after the 2020 election.
As reported by Fox 2 Detroit, Trump’s campaign alleged in a statement that the PA State Supreme Court’s changing of the law was a violation of Article II of the U.S. Constitution and Bush v. Gore. The campaign’s appeal asks SCOTUS for an expedited review and reply by Thursday, giving it enough time before Congress meets on January 6 to “consider the votes of the Electoral College.”