text: "The Lee statue had stood for about 85 years"
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  Or about 1932. Just after the KKK revived itself. Most of these statues are not Civil War homages, they are the second wave of the KKK revival statues. Imagine if right about now revival Nazis put up statues to Goebbels, Göring, Himmler and Hitler. Or how about the Joseph Mengele Medical College? Yeah, 70 years after WWII, that wouldn't fly but somehow 60+ years after the Civil War, Confederate admiration did fly. Can't imagine why a black kid would have qualms about cheering on the Good Ol' Crackers of Robert E. Lee Junior High!!!