Donald Trump, who was born in Queens, is very upset that this statue of Robert E. Lee came down in Richmond, Virginia, today. In reply, we invite him to visit all the monuments and memorials to New Yorkers who died for the Union during the Civil War.
The flip side of Trump, the Big Apple native who sides with white supremacists, is probably Ralph Northam — current Governor of Virginia, alleged blackface wearer, descendant of the Old Confederacy. Northam, who survived his mini-scandal of racial insensitivity, is the perfect person to fight to remove Lee (and the other rebel statues) from Monument Avenue. He's a Democrat — just like all those secessionists were back in the day — he's white, and he speaks with a soft, soothing Southern accent. Northam was there today to watch Lee go.
It was another "only Nixon could go to China" moment. And Richmond, which once was the capital of the Confederacy, has better places to go and to be. We cats think it's great, and we PURR.
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