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Descendant of Robert E. Lee Joins Fight to Have Confederate Statue Removed


Descendant of Robert E. Lee Joins Fight to Have Confederate Statue Removed
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People from all backgrounds are coming together to get a statue of Robert E. Lee removed from a North Carolina site. Including one descendant of the confederate war general.
Rev. Robert Wright “Rob” Lee IV, the fourth great-nephew of Robert E. Lee joined a multiracial lawsuit filed on Tuesday to have his great uncle’s statue removed from the Government Center in downtown Statesville,
The Raleigh News & Observer reports.
The group includes local residents and organizations who are all against a monument of the Confederacy’s commanding general being on display at the former county courthouse. Lee added a personal statement with the lawsuit where he called his great uncle’s statue “a celebration of white supremacy and racism.”

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Robert E. Lee descendant joins legal fight to remove Confederate statue from NC site

A multiracial lawsuit demanding the removal of a Confederate monument in Iredell County, North Carolina, offers a historic family twist. One of the residents supporting the move is a descendant of Robert E. Lee. The Rev. Robert Wright "Rob" Lee IV of Statesville, a fourth great-nephew of the Confederacy's commanding general, is among a group of residents and organizations calling on Iredell ...

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Descendent of Robert E. Lee Joins Fight to Have Confederate Statue Removed


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The sun rises behind the Robert E. Lee statue, where streets are closed ahead of expected protests in Richmond, Virginia on January 17, 2021. - Security officials have warned that armed pro-Trump extremists, possibly carrying explosives, pose a threat to Washington as well as state capitals over the coming week.
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That we even have to debate whether a statue of Robert E. Lee should exist tells us how backwards many people in America are. Of course, four years of Donald Trump and his racism certainly didn’t help.
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If people are willing to travel to Washington, D.C., to take down the government, they certainly aren’t going to stand by and let one of the symbols of their hate be taken down.

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Citizen group urges county to remove Confederate monument to avoid 'legal battle'


A group in Catawba County says legally, the county must move the Confederate monument in downtown Newton as it represents hate speech. If it isn’t moved, there could be a legal dispute ahead, Catawba County Truth and Reconciliation Co-Chair Kenyon Kelly said.
Kelly stood before the Catawba County Board of Commissioners Monday night and asked once more for the 1907 monument to be removed from county land. The group has asked the county to move the statue at almost every regular board meeting for nearly eight months.
“The solution is clear, together we can move on from this crisis with one simple step,” he said. “What we hope you will choose to do is to avoid a costly and protracted legal battle by doing what many communities across the state and nation have already done: voluntarily remove this monument.”

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Confederate statue prompts lawsuit in Iredell County. Plaintiffs accuse commissioners of backpedaling on decision to move monument.


By Ben Gibson | Statesville Record & Landmark
The battle over the Iredell County Confederate Memorial is in a new phase after a group of plaintiffs filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding the county remove the statue.
In the press release, the group said the Iredell County Commissioners' vote to begin the removal process — before seemingly backtracking — was one of the reasons the lawsuit was filed.
"In fact, on March 3 of this year, the Iredell County Board of Commissioners voted to remove the Confederate Monument, admitting in their Resolution that the monument 'occupied a prominent position in front of the justice system during a period of Jim Crow laws, segregation and endemic discrimination against African-Americans,' and that, for Black residents, the monument 'continues to serve as a reminder of policies of oppression, having their roots in the system of slavery that existed in the Confederate States of America.'

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Citizens sue to remove Iredell County Confederate Monument


The Confederate Monument outside the historic Iredell County Courthouse.
The Iredell County Commissioners voted to remove the monument in March, but then reconsidered, prompting the lawsuit.
“A glorified symbol of White Supremacy stands guard over the Iredell County Government Center, a place where the government is supposed to serve all of Iredell County’s residents,” said Rev. Curtis Johnson, President of the South Iredell NAACP, in a statement on the suit Tuesday. “That is totally unacceptable, as the Commissioners recognized in their March Resolution. The Monument must go . . . peacefully, but it must go. The time is long overdue.”
Plaintiffs in the suit include  the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, the NAACP’s  Statesville  and South Iredell Branches and the Iredell Clergy for Healing and Justice, an alliance of Iredell County religious leaders. The suit argues that the statue threatens public safety and is in violation of the North Carolina constitution.

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Group files lawsuit to remove Confederate monument from Iredell County Government Center


Group files lawsuit to remove Confederate monument from Iredell County Government Center
Lawsuit filed to remove Confederate monument
By WBTV Web Staff | May 4, 2021 at 2:44 PM EDT - Updated May 5 at 3:25 PM
IREDELL COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) - A coalition of people and groups in Iredell County have filed a lawsuit seeking the removal of a Confederate monument that stands in front of the county’s government center.
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday against the County, the County Board of Commissioners, and the commissioners themselves in Iredell County Superior Court. The plaintiffs, made up of a multi-racial coalition of county residents, state and local NAACP chapters, and a local clergy group.

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