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On Wednesday, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer John Dowd forwarded an email to associates that expressed support for the South's secession from the Union in the 1860s. Dowd sent this email to conservative journalists, government officials, and Dowd's friends, among others. The email originated from Jerome Almon, a right wing nutcase who runs websites that focus on conspiracy theories.
Subject line: "The Information that Validates President Trump on Charlottesville."
"You cannot be against General Lee and be for General Washington... Both men led rebellions "against the ruling government... There literally is no difference between the two men."
We are beginning to see how deep this goes. The gloves are off and Trump's mask has been pulled aside. Make no mistake, Trump has chosen a lawyer that reflects his core values.
I can't believe team Trump is doubling down on this. This is not a hill worth dying on...
Get over it- don't you have more important concerns?
We should all be very, very, concerned about having an unstable narcissist as President, especially one that is giving nod-nod, wink-wink support to white supremacist and neo-Nazi causes. I don't think anyone is going to get "over it" any time soon.
Well turn it around and what lofty ideals was Washington fighting for? Because it wasn't the whole freedom, equality, and brotherhood that people seem to think. Indeed it can be argued that the Founders were little more than petulant children, who would have been speaking French had it not been for Great Britain, and was it really unfair to expect the colonies to pay their own way for their defense? Lets be honest, the US rebelled against Britain for levels of taxation that would make most modern Americans dance with glee.
I'd also like to draw attention to Somerset v. Stewart (Kings Bench 1772) effectively ending chattel slavery in the UK. You telling me that the rich colonists would not have concerns about that ruling resulting in ending slavery in the US before it was even a US?
Ultimately the only real known difference is that Washington won, and Lee lost
We should all be very, very, concerned about having an unstable narcissist as President, especially one that is giving nod-nod, wink-wink support to white supremacist and neo-Nazi causes. I don't think anyone is going to get "over it" any time soon.
I honestly do not believe Trump is a racist. We just had 8 years of a narcissist that preffered helping other countries over America. In todays PC world, if whites don't always give in to blacks, hispanics, gays, etc- then we are labeled "racists". People are way too sensitive and weak minded anymore.
Well, in all fairness, Robert E Lee was a GREAT man - an absolutely brilliant tactician (perhaps the best America has EVER produced - STILL studied TODAY) and (by the standards of his time) a generally decent human being. He was NOT a "foaming at the mouth" racist (though he was - like nearly everyone of his generation - nevertheless racist). He actually sympathized with the north rather than the south and Lincoln badly wanted him to head up the union army. However, you have to remember that back then it was "THESE United States" rather than "THE United States" and folks generally (both in the north and the south) considered themselves to be "Virginians", "New Yorkers", etc. first and "Americans" second. It was a different mindset than we have today. In fact it was the Civil War itself that changed mindset (it's one of the major results of the Civil War).
So, when Virginia left the union and offered him a command, Lee reluctantly went with it. Lee's stature however was such that even among Union officers and enlisted men, Lee was still revered (even at the end of the war). That's kind of hard to understand with those days so far behind us now, but it's a fact.
There are a lot of Confederate leaders that were pretty bad people, but despite his flaws (and Lee DID have them) Lee is not one of them, He was a generally decent person. He actually thought slavery was evil but (again like the vast majority of folks of his day) thought it was the White Mans ordained task from God to "Civilize blacks" and that Blacks were not yet ready for freedom. It's a hard concept to understand today, but it was a common belief at the time.
“While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is still onward, and give it the aid of our prayers, let us leave the progress as well as the results in the hands of Him who, chooses to work by slow influences, and with whom a thousand years are but as a single day,” Lee wrote.
Like many slaveholders, Lee believed that God ordained slavery to “civilize” the black race and that black people heavily benefited from the institution.
“The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, physically, and socially,” Lee wrote. “The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their further instruction as a race, and will prepare them, I hope, for better things.” = Robert E Lee
Washington IS the same as Lee in the sense that he too was a product of his time. BOTH were great men and it was right that we admire them AND understand and acknowledge their failings. Lee DID end up fighting for - what we consider today - the side of evil, but you have to understand that Lee - like virtually every American in those days - considered himself to be a citizen of his STATE first and an AMERICAN second. He didn't WANT to fight against the north (or even to leave the Union) but he felt he had to stay loyal to Virginia.
Times were different then, and so were attitudes.
Ken
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