The statue of a southern general during the Civil War (1861-1865), which had been falling and damaged in 2020 by anti-racist protesters, will be restored and reinstated in Washington, announced the National Parks Service on Monday, August 4. Albert Pike (1809-1891), also a lawyer and writer, was the only military figure in the Confederate camp that had his monument in the capital of the United States.
The national parks service “will restore and reinstall the Bronze statue of Albert Pike, which had been overthrown and destroyed during the riots in June 2020,” said a statement. You should find your place in a Washington park in October.
This “rehabilitation is one of the federal legal responsibilities in the preservation of historical heritage and follows from the latest presidential decrees aimed at beautifying the capital and reinstalling statues,” said the national parks, which depend on the administration of Donald Trump.
The latter had made two decrees at the end of March “to make the Columbia district (Washington) safe and magnificent” and “to restore truth and common sense in US history.”
An action linked to the “Black Lives Matter” movement
The Republican conservative billionaire, who completed his first term in June 2020, had described at the time when the unlocking of Albert Pike’s statue as “shame for our country” and accused the capital of the capital, mostly democratic, of passivity.
In June 2020, the protesters had put the monument to the ground using a rope and then tried to shoot it singing the slogan of the African -American anti -racist movement “Black Lives Matter”.
This destruction had taken place at the end of the meetings and commemorations of the 155th anniversary of the “Juneteenth” (“June” and “nineteen”), dates from 1865 when the last slaves had been launched in Texas, and which since then has been the presidency of Barack Obama (2009-2017) a holiday who died in the United States.
Many monuments erected for the glory of the personalities of the Confederate camp during the Civil War had been demolished in the spring of 2020. A few days after the landing of the statue of Pike, the protesters had tried to do the same with that of the 7th US president Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), who supported slavery, and from which Donald Trump is an admirer Fervent.
This movement to deactivate statues and monuments in honor of slave characters had made oil stain after the death of African -American George Floyd, suffocated in May 2020 by a white police.
Source: BFM TV
