A Robert E. Lee statue that was torn down four years ago in Dallas has recently reappeared at a private Texas resort.  

The large bronze statue of Lee riding a horse with a soldier slightly behind him was taken away from the city in 2017 after the racial violence that occurred in Charlottesville, VA, earlier over plans to remove another statue of Lee that celebrated racism.  

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The statue was sold at an online auction in 2019 for $1.44 million to Dallas law office Holmes Firm PC and is now being showcased at Lajitas Golf Resort in the predominantly white Terlingua, Texas. 

Dallas billionaire Kelcy Warren owns the resort and is the founder of Energy Transfer Partners.  

The Lee statue was described as “a fabulous piece of art” by the resort manager Scott Beasley.  

“I would say that of the 60-plus-thousand guests we host each year, we’ve had one or two negative comments,” Beasley told the Houston Chronicle. 

However, Brandon Mack, an activist with the local Dallas chapter of Black Lives Matter expressed his frustration telling the Associated Press that he has a problem with the statue being referred to as a work of art. “We don’t glorify the swastika,” he said. “We don’t have monuments of Adolf Hitler.” 

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Another statue of Lee in Charlottesville and a statue of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson in Richmond, VA was torn down in July of 2021.