Demolition of the Confederate statue to put “increasing pressure” on the southern states

Sky News Washington correspondent Annes Nelson said that the removal of the Robert E. Lee Memorial in Charlottesville, Virginia will put southern states under “increasing pressure” to remove “statues of figures related to slavery.”

Ms. Nelson told Sky News: “The idea of ​​moving certain characters has received widespread support, especially those with a history of American slavery.”

“What we will see is that there is increasing pressure on this in the southern states, which have laws prohibiting the removal of statues.

“Since the murder of George Freud and even the conviction of Derek Chauvin, the discussion about race has really not disappeared.

“This is where we see the discussion of critical racial theory becoming so important in the United States, because it is an inevitable swing, and people will say how we will live if it changes.”