'The falling of the Berlin Wall' - company takes down US Confederate statues amid death threats | News24

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"On one of the removals, we were driving down the road with the Confederate statue on the trailer and someone tried to run us off the road," said Henry, who is 45. When the 5m-tall statue was finally dislodged from its pedestal in the pouring rain,"to see thousands of people still around laughing, smiling and in some cases crying, you feel like you did something pretty special".

In January 2016, a contractor hired to remove four Confederate statues in New Orleans pulled out of the project after his car was set afire. A few months later, in August 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia, hundreds of ultra-right protesters marched against the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E Lee.

His company has removed a total of 23 Confederate monuments in the south-eastern US, including 15 in Richmond, and is set to dismantle several others in different cities. Hundreds remain across the American South.

Ok? Then maybe stop doing that lol

No history...no education..

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