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I used to live in Georgia. I did work for the state at one time. I would not want a day off if it was dedicated to Robert E. Lee. And I don't see any reason to celebrate him.
And get this. The majority of African-Americans are southerners. The South is where a majority of African-Americans live. I don't see African-Americans saluting Confederates or referring to the Confederate flag as part of their southern heritage. Ask yourself why that it. By the way, come up with a better answer than "Blacks are brainwashed by the left".
Lee is usually cited not for his allegiance or political views, but for his personal conduct, as a moral man caught in the most amoral (rather than immoral) forms of human conflict.
This is how the story of the surrender at Appomattox was presented to us, as junor high school students (few Afros, but plenty of assimilating white ethnics) in a Northern industrial community of 25,000, in the divisive 1960's.
This is why I consider myself a moderate liberal. Robert E Lee and the Confederacy is part of our history. To take down symbols of our history is wrong. If we are going to be critical of those who owned slaves are we to do away with the dollar bill because George Washington was a slave owner, as was basically every white man of means at that time?
Robert E Lee was a beloved General among both the Confederate and Union Armies. He was saluted by all soldiers. This is a sad damn day in America.
It's a happy day for me. He fought for the Confederacy. Anyone who fought for the Confederacy, in my book, is a public enemy. The Confederate cause was about keeping slavery. It's in the Confederate Constitution, the Articles of Secession, and the Cornerstone Speech. The South wanted to keep slavery so badly that it was willing to secede and fight a war for it. Robert E. Lee chose the Confederacy. I'm glad his likeness is being torn down, and I have no reason to think otherwise.
I'm a white Richmond resident and I'm overjoyed that Loser's Alley is being torn down. Enough of the ancestor worship. It's like some second rate type of Shinto.
I'm a white Richmond resident and I'm overjoyed that Loser's Alley is being torn down. Enough of the ancestor worship. It's like some second rate type of Shinto.
I agree with you.
--White Richmond Resident
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