The remains of the Charlottesville, Virginia statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee, dismantled in 2017 will be melted down and turned into a yet-to-be-designed public arts project by a local Black-led nonprofit, NPR reports. Our hope with ‘Swords into Plowshares’ is to create something that transforms what was once toxic in our public space into something beautiful that can be more reflective of our entire community’s social values” said Andrea Douglas, director of the Jefferson School American Heritage Center, which makes sense because recycling is a total lib thing to do.
In related news, a really stupid, ugly statue of Confederate General and later Ku Klux Klan founder Nathaniel Bedford Forrest was removed from a property in Nashville, Tennessee on Tuesday.