Robert E. Lee Statue In Charlottesville Secretly Gets MELTED Down, Watch Here

The controversial statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that previously stood in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia was melted down in a secret meeting.

An exclusive report by the Washington Post revealed the statue of Lee was broken up into several parts and was burned in a secret location.

However the burning wasn’t completely secretive because the Washington Post just so happen to get a video of it.

Here’s the video:

Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue has met its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace.

The divisive Confederate monument, the focus of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, was secretly melted down and will become a new piece of public art.

More on the process:… pic.twitter.com/XatZUfvku3

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 26, 2023

Per CBS 19 News:

The statue of Robert E. Lee that once stood in downtown Charlottesville has finally met its fiery fate.

According to a report in The Washington Post, the statue, which had already been cut up into several pieces, was melted down on Saturday. The name and location of the foundry where the melting took place was kept secret because of fears of retribution.

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Charlottesville’s plans to remove the statue led to a Ku Klux Klan rally in July of 2017 as well as the violent Unite the Right rally a month later where 32-year-old Heather Heyer was killed.

The statue was removed from Lee Park (now Market Street Park) in 2021, but plans to do anything with it remained in limbo until lawsuits filed by the statue’s defenders had been cleared up.

Andrea Douglas, the executive director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, and Jalane Schmidt, a University of Virginia religious studies professor, lead the Swords into Plowshares project, which will repurpose the metal into a more inclusive work of art.

There’s more:

The statue’s defenders more recently sought to block the city from handing over Lee to the Charlottesville’s Black history museum, which had proposed a plan to repurpose the metal. In a lawsuit, those plaintiffs suggested the monument should remain intact or be turned into Civil… pic.twitter.com/D80282TZYv

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 26, 2023

Check out what The Daily Mail reported:

The statue of General Robert E. Lee that sparked Charlottesville’s Unite the Right rally has been secretly melted down by the city’s black history museum.

The statue of Lee, who was a prominent slave owner and revered Confederate Army general, was removed from its plinth in Charlottesville, Virginia, in July 2021.

Following protests by Black Lives Matter after the death of George Floyd and the infamous Unite the Right rally in 2017, the city council voted to have it removed.

After being taken down over two years ago, the statue has now been secretly melted down inside a Southern foundry.

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According to The Washington Post, the statue was cut into fragments and then dissolved in a furnace at a secret location due to fears of backlash.