Posted on 06/24/2020 12:23:53 PM PDT by SJackson
Two national parks in California are removing all mention of Robert E. Lee from informational material even though several majestic sequoias are named for the Confederate general.
Sequoia and Kings Canyon parks are removing references to Lee from exhibits, printed and online material as protests against racism and police brutality have led, in some places, to the removal or pulling down of monuments to historical figures linked to slavery or colonialism. Protest have been spurred nationwide over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after a white officer pressed a knee to his neck in Minnesota.
A reference to the nearly 255-foot Robert E. Lee tree at Grant Grove in the Kings Canyon park has been stricken from an online list of the planet's 30 biggest sequoias, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. It is the world's 11th-largest giant sequoia.
The idea was to “promote inclusiveness," parks spokeswoman Sintia Kawasaki-Yee said.
“When people come to our national parks and see something so majestic, it shouldn’t remind them of a Confederate leader who stood for something unjust,” Masooma Kalyan, a tourist from the San Francisco Bay Area, told the Visalia Times-Delta. “They should rename it.”
However, the name can't be officially changed without approval from Congress or the director of the National Park Service.
The tree is believed to have been named by a former Confederate lieutenant around 1875, before the area became a national park.
There are at least two other redwood trees named for Lee in the Sierra Nevada, one in Yosemite National Park and one in Giant Forest in Sequoia National Forest.
The park service is trying to figure out what to do with a sign at the General Lee tree in Giant Forest and wants to hear public opinion before deciding whether to remove it, Kawasaki-Yee said.
Other trees in Sequoia and Kings Canyon are named after historical figures. The two most famous are named for Civil War Union generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant.
Why doesn’t Antifa go in there and chop the tree down?
I've read elsewhere that the NPS can't rename the tree, that it requires Congressional action. Which seems silly, Congress should have better things to do. So they take down the signs and remove the name from park literature ala Stalin. Wonder if it's OK to say the trees name?
>>Two national parks in California are removing all mention of Robert E. Lee from informational material even though several majestic sequoias are named for the Confederate general. Sequoia and Kings Canyon parks are removing references to Lee from exhibits, printed and online material as protests against racism and police brutality
Was Robert E. Lee known to be an advocate of police brutality or something?
Not happening. Too many conservatives live in a fantasy world.
And so Mr President...................
If they did, no one in authority would say anything. Especially the gutless Republicans in Congress that I have helped to elect.
I have a neighbor who has two adorable Huskies. One is named Grant and the other Lee. I guess the owner needs to put down the dog named Lee.
Hey leftist bedwetters. Thanks for offering to help, but the Confederacy was actually defeated 155 years ago. What would you like to try next, invading Normandy?
I thought Trump gave an executive order about destroying historical monuments.
STATUES COMING DOWN IS START OF A REVOLUTION
GAME ON, PEOPLE! ARE YOU READY?
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What about the Sanford and Son episode where Fred buys a horse named General Lee? Will that episode be thrown down the memory hole?
Treasure your DVDs folks...
Yosemite will have to be renamed because, well Yosemite Sam has to be racist.
I agree.
Lee was the commander of the US Marines who captured John Brown at Harpers Ferry (pre-Civil War). I wonder what they are going to do about Lee references at that national park.
People should take some time to read Lee’s biography.
His record at West Point
His service in the Mexican American war
His character and experience which caused him to be offered the leadership of the Union and Confederate armies
The importance of states rights in 1860 thought
His instructions to his troops at Appomattox
His friendship with Grant
His service as President of Washington College
His efforts at reconciliation.
Then look in the mirror and see how you measure up!
I have no problem with this. Lee was given the opportunity to lead federal troops. He chose the losing side instead. I don’t care about the reason. He fought for the pro-slavery society his own plantation was built on. He lost.
Washington is a very different matter. He was The Indispensable Man in establishing the very Constitution the protesters are able to rely on in exercising their rights of assembly and free speech.
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