Time capsule hidden beneath Robert E. Lee statue opened
Time capsule hidden beneath Robert E. Lee statue opened
A time capsule, more than a century old, was opened after it was discovered beneath a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia. CBS News’ Courtney Kealy has more on what was found inside.
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A time capsule under the statue of a mass murderer and a traitor.
Liberals erasing history FJB
If you forget the past you’re doomed to repeat it. People that vote to destroy these monuments are setting the country up for another civil war.
That’s sad that they took the statue down. It’s our history. So let’s just go ahead and erase it right?
ROBERT E. LEE WAS AND WILL ALWAYS BE A COPPER MELANATED MAN… HE WAS WHITEWASHED AND LOOK WHO’S OPENING THE TIME CAPSULE… 😅 ALL LIES!!! NOT ONE MELANATED BEING IN SIGHT. THEY ALL KNOW THIS.
Cry baby black people want to erase history
People are morons to think Robert E Lee was a hardened racist
God’s will.
Once again erasing history.
like how two women are opening the capsule. always bringing up the past.
Victim culture
His monument will return. You guys ccote for dems and they live slavery. This man will be remembered and the south the truth will rise
What was the coin? How vague
Every time capsule is disappointment 🙄
BOOKS! no wonder they wanted it torn down
What a disgrace. When will this nonsense stop. God Bless America
Just throw the contents in the trash. I mean, you’re taking down history anyway like it never happened. What’s the point?
It wasn’t supposed to be removed period y’all are messing with people that you didn’t understand during the war
Hopefully the document pronounces a curse on anyone who ordered the statue removed.
Why do any of these people give a damn about what is in it . They hated these great generals so much. They have never tell the American people that this very day southern generals battle tactics are what is used not the northern generals
Well lets just hope they don’t try to erase the information on the contents like the liberals are trying to erase history from the USA.
It’s a shame a piece of history has to be removed to please the minority.
Are they going to destroy those books too, like how they just melted down the statue in secret?
Oooooooo it’s sooo racist
It’s a shame history is treated with such disrespect. Learn about Robert E. Lee, and you’ll find he was not a symbol of racial injustice, he was someone who stood against US imperialism.
dadgum woke freaks democrats destroying our history
What a horrible day for all AMERICANS & PATRIOTS *
LETS GO BRANDON AND THE LEFT *
What books were they ? You cant say oh books not telling what they are. That’s quite odd….
We are the only country,that gives loser statues.
Books are destroyed by water. So it’s useless. Good riddance
Bruh there are people still alive that can tell you about what their parents thought. What do you mean “this will shed a light on how people were thinking”?
It’s a shame that there was not more attention paid to the artifacts themselves. Just a reporter and a politician talking.
Long seen as racial injustice, then go off and vote for one of the most racist left leaning politicians ever
Who let the communists remove Robt. E. Lee statue? America will regret all this.
Destroying history one statue at a time.
What a sad day,,,!!!! taking down the best or one of the best Generals in American history,,, Who else could do what he did being out man, out gun, out supply… not Grant.. And today Southerns..!! Shame on everyone of y’all.. to the Left Wing Nuts get away with this…Starting in the 1960’s white American has been brainwashed, the News. Movies, books, to make you feel bad, make you feel you owe someone.. Grow some pride, and stand up for yourself… Left Wing Nut want to keep you down…Wait and see what is put there now… even more Left Wing crap YOU HAVE to agree with or if you don’t, your a Racist..!! I said it, the big bad "R" every white is scared of.. Its funny how only one race can be a racist… What a damn joke this is…
Should have left the Statue alone its history
The gov. ralph northam is the dr. that kills babies after they are born. This came out of his own mouth during his run for gov. Evil person.
A curse upon us all for another PANDORAS BOX THAT has been opened, to be continued ***
History destroyed shall repeat😢
Nice. Video and workmanship
Governor Ralph forgot his funny peaked college hat.
It’s like they knew that people would be uneducated and ignorant these days and they had to put a reminder in. Can’t believe they took down a memorial of a us veteran that criticized slavery.
As the General is unwanted in his home land I would like to buy the statue and have it transported to Belfast, Northern Ireland where it would be appreciated.🇬🇧
What people were thinking 🤔 .
I bet they weren’t thinking about men using female restrooms. Or ar there more than 2 genders.
Destruction of heritage sites. A classic example of iconoclasm.
racists taking down history!
The Racist is the people that TORE the Statue down. Because those statues were geographically set with a decoded message.
And there was NO
"LOST CAUSE!"
Let the government take your home for the boogus charge of "Delinquent" property taxes, that YOU PAID 3 Times. And send soldiers to confiscate and occupy your home and place a bounty on your head. Killing, burning and looting your families homes and neighbors. All because you won’t Make or lead an ARMY against any American people…
Then use your home / plantation for a CEMETERY… to keep you from ever going home.
A home that was also George and Martha Washingtons’ property, as well. By way of Mrs. Mary Custiss – Lee being Martha Randolph – Custiss- Washingtons’ great grand daughter.
YOU, too, WOULD GO TO WAR ..Against a tyrannical, ambitious politician. If he took your HOME FOR "UNJUST TAXATION!"
(Lee’s sons SUED the USA FEDERAL GOVERNMENT after the War for their Arlington plantation home and WON!)
Robert E. Lee gave the USA Army 32 years of his LIFE. Not only as a General, but as an ENGINEER!
Robert E.Lee and his team of Engineers attached the smaller streams and water ways and tributaries to flow to the Larger Rivers: ALL across the ENTIRE USA to accommodate USA Commerce Ships. Robert E. Lee and his team of Engineers attached the great Lakes together, in Michigan, to flow to the
St. LAWRENCE SEA WAY.
The 3 years that
Robert E.Lee was in Michigan: He never went home to Virginia! Who was beatting his slaves then?
Robert E. Lee spent so much of his Life, sleeping in his tent: He could NOT sleep in his bed at home. Lee would often be seen sleeping in his tent, in the yard, at Washington & Lee University. Maybe
George Floyd should have used Robert E. Lee as a Role model…to duty.
Robert E.Lee and his team of engineers finger prints are all over the Water Wsys and Ports in the USA. That is used DAILY IN THE USA IN 2022…
GRATITUDE IS IN ORDER.
So a piece of history was taken down because a bunch of sensitive black people wanted to cry about racism when they don’t deal with it everyday like how often do you think black people get talked to in a racist manner? I legit work with a couple black guys in my lab at work and they legit don’t ever get talked bad too in or outside of work yall just are a bunch of soft mf grow up the world doesn’t revolve around you
Why do democrats hate their own statutes and history?