they did to bring us to this moment and on behalf of the entire council i would like to thank the community who continues to fight daily. after 3-2 votes, injunctions, court battles that landed us at the highest court in virginia, a white supremacist rally led by people whose minds were trained at the very institution built by an enslaver, that people still choose to idealize today. as we debate in america whether critical race theory, actual history can be taught, our community battles with the falsities that have created to enshrine and preserve whiteness as supreme. taking down the statue is one
gain. what was brewing in the mind of the man who commissioned this statue? my guess would be the desire to continue to perpetuate the erroneous theory that whiteness is supreme. as this community and our country attempts to reconcile with this hypothesis of white supremacy i hope that we can move to an authentic healing by embracing truth. it should not take another black child, tamir rice, another black woman, breonna taylor or another black man, sean bell, george floyd, for this country to be outraged by the injustice inflicted upon black bodies. this statue is finally being surrendered, it s just one small step. the real work has always been
accurate history, even when it denounces whiteness as supreme. the idea of this statue was commissioned 104 years ago and dedicated 97 years ago at a grand ole party held by a man who bought the land and demolished existing structures to create 104-year home for this object. the object was only important because of the race of the man who sat upon the horse. his greatest honor was his whiteness and the treason that he committed in the attempt to preserve the great american tradition of being able to enslave, rape, pillage and murder black people for economic
as a teenager, a student activist and the mayor speaking. we heard her say it is important to teach and espouse accurate history even when it denounces whiteness as not supreme. as she was speaking we were monitoring the live pictures that you are seeing in the middle of your screen, that statue there of robert e. lee who has been the center of so much controversy resulting in death over the years there in the center of charlottesville. that 26-foot-tall monument to robert e. lee expect to come down sometime today, perhaps within the next hour. along with the statue of stonewall jackson. still remains to be seen what will become of these statues, they won t be destroyed. right now the city is reviewing ten different offers from different organizations that might be interested in taking ownership of the statues. we will continue to keep an eye on all of that as it plays out there in charlottesville. we have a lot more to come, including the one last physical reminder of the vi
possible. but it is an open cabin, so there really isn t a way out if something does go wrong. so it s very critical that we get all of these steps right. blue origin does have a bit more traditional rocket, vertical launch and landing rocket and they have an escape pod system for the capsule away from the booster. that is a tried and true method. nasa and russia have used it for their rocket, spacex also another competitor for orbital flight has used it as well. thank you so much for joining us. we will all be watching tomorrow. good to talk to you. and tomorrow join msnbc for special extended coverage of the virgin galactic test spaceflight. alley we will chee will be joined by former astronauts plus watch the spacecraft in orbit and post flight commentary from richard branson. something we are watching this morning before we head to break a live look in charlottesville, virginia, they have strapped up that statue of robert e. lee as they are