Bay Ridge church takes down plaque honoring Confederate leader

See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn PaperA plaque commemorating the Confederate leader General Robert E. Lee was hauled off the grounds of the so-called Church of the Generals in Bay Ridge on Aug. 16 in the wake of last weekend’s white supremacist protests and violence in Charlottesville, sending a message that racism has no place in Brooklyn, according to a local political hopeful.“Removing this plaque makes it very clear that while we will never forget the