Muh heritage! Now we'll never know who committed treason!
Why is it so important to you and others that statues of robert E.. Lee & get taken down sumbols of the Confederacy are erased from American History?
Because you don't see Statues of Hitler in Poland or Paris either
Different countries. KA-PAWNED!!!
Lee and Jackson were from Virginia, they fought FOR Virginia and all Southern State's rights, they should stay right where they are.
Rather than judge Lee as Good or bad, perhaps a more accurate depiction of him was somebody caught in difficult set of historical circumsmstance.s Initially he was asked by Lincoln to take command of the Union Army. So if he'd done so, today his face might be on the $5 US bil instead of Grant .
Lee was one of those 'damned if he did & damned if he didn't' historical figures.
Anyways, I read somewhere that one of Lee's descendants ended up becming a general in the US Army, the same one Lee Fought against.
Yeah, Lee was originally Union, and Virginia did not want to secede. But when asked to attack his fellow friends and family and friends, plus other states, he said no, and left the Union. As well as Virginia, the birth place of Liberty.
Lee was a Gentleman. Honorable in war as well.
I think the literary term that might apply to Lee which is 'Tragic Herol'.
Desitnted to lose no matter what he does.
I would agree.
The civil war wasnt actually about slavery....but about state rights.
The whole picture of the north vs south on freeing slaves isnt very accurate. It's a very deep topic. But the confederacy wasnt a fight to keep slaves as its painted. It was state rights.
Not sure what the American Civil War was really about, Dovey.
Probably about the usual - Money, power & various factionswanting their share of the pie or taking the other guy's.
They often end with a messy result & unresolvedissues.
Actually the other guy Robert E. Lee reminds me of, is the last Emperor of Austria.
He tries to save his family'ls Empire but is doomed & like Lee trapped by historical circumstances beyond his control.
No matter what he does, eh can't change the outcome.
It was a state rights thing. Slavery was the trigger for the confederacy but they viewed the union as attacking them economically, and the union wasnt interested in ending slavery until later.
The north went to war to preserve the union.....it wasnt about freeing slaves. Not at first. The south calls the civil war the "war of northern aggression" because the union was pretty fucking brutal.
Abolition was a position NOT held exclusively by the north or south. It was groups of people through both the north and south. Just like there were pro slavery racists through the north and south.
It was actually democrat voters who started the kkk. If you look this up you'll notice media all jumps to "disprove" this claim or call it false. But if you read it mindfully ....you'll notice they word the claim as "The Democrat party" when saying its false.
It wasnt the democrat party. It WAS democrat voters. Those who aligned with the democrat party. Republicans were called the "party of the negro". After Republicans freed the slaves the dumb democrat base started that hate group. Then when Republicans got the Constitution amended to allow the black vote....Democrats became invested in pandering to them. This is where left claim the "parties switched". They never switched. They just changed tactics.
Even today we see Democrats supporting and including historically racist shit in their party like Planned Parenthood(that was plopped in every poor minority area...that was started to keep the black population low AND they used to forcibly sterilize black women) and gun control. Neglecting communities and schools with majority black residents is another biggy. They literally just allowed violent riots in these areas.
Now they are openly saying Republicans are trying to suppress the black vote because they want voter ID laws and people to vote in their district. Two very simple things they are claiming BLACK people cannot do.
I know I've wandered off topic. It's just blows my mind how people just run with shit despite the reality in their faces lol.
The whole race issue was more between democrats and republicans than some tidy north vs south thing. Racists never liked the Republican party because they included black Americans. It's still the same today because racists dont want black children in nice schools and dont want them to have opportunities. The remaining 40 members of the kkk very likely vote democrat and claim Republican so other people vote democrat. The only thing that's really changed is the propaganda.
And the fact that democrats now embrace marxist communism which could very possibly launch us into another civil war.
