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Washington and Lee University to remove Confederate flags following protests
The Washington Post ^ | July 8, 2014 | T. Rees Shapiro

Posted on 07/09/2014 12:56:01 PM PDT by Timber Rattler

Washington and Lee University expressed regret Tuesday for the school’s past ownership of slaves and promised to remove Confederate flags from the main chamber of its Lee Chapel after a group of black students protested that the historic Virginia school was unwelcoming to minorities.

President Kenneth P. Ruscio’s announcement was a surprising move for the small, private liberal arts college in Lexington, which has long celebrated its Southern heritage. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee served as the university’s president after the Civil War, his crypt is beneath the chapel, and the school has gingerly addressed its ties to the Confederacy and its having profited from the possession and sale of slaves.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: civilwar; confederacy; confederate; dixie; flag; lee; racebaiters; rel; robertelee
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To: Delta Dawn

IIRC, Gen. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox, not the end of Confederate resistance but its death knell.

Gettysburg had been a strategic defeat for Lee, the highwater mark of the Confederacy.

Anyway, W & L has done a shameful cave-in to a handful of malcontents. People on all sides can honor the Confederate fallen & those who led them, very few of whom owned slaves.

It the university prez had stood his ground & thumbed his nose at Al Sharpton, the malcontents would have been surrounded by thousands of patriots, had they chosen to demonstrate.


21 posted on 07/09/2014 2:22:01 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: Timber Rattler
Waling into the shadows, walking alone

Where the sun falls through the ruined boughs of locust

Up to the president's office . . .

Hearing the voices

Whisper, Hush, it is General Lee!

. . .

It is not General Lee, young men . . .

It is Robert Lee in a dark civilian suit who walks,

An outlaw fumbling for the latch, a voice

Commanding in a dream where no flag flies.

From Lee in the Mountains, by Donald Davidson

22 posted on 07/09/2014 2:33:13 PM PDT by jumpingcholla34 (.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Are you as tired of this silly nonsense as I am?
Wouldn’t it be nice if people could just grow up a little?


23 posted on 07/09/2014 2:38:21 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: C19fan

I agree. By all contemporary accounts Lee was an honorable man, admired even by those who fought against him.


24 posted on 07/09/2014 3:21:00 PM PDT by lastchance (People)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

In this case, there were only 7 or 8 agitators, goaded on by an Obama-voting law professor, and they were overtly threatening some form of violence if they did not get their way, and President Mush here folded like a cheap suitcase.


25 posted on 07/09/2014 5:52:33 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: onedoug

ping


26 posted on 07/09/2014 5:59:09 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: lastchance

http://www.framingfox.com/wishhewereours.html


27 posted on 07/09/2014 6:44:15 PM PDT by chesley
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To: Fiji Hill

I had some distant cousins in Ohio who named their son who was born in 1871 after Robert E. Lee. Although their family was originally from Virginia, they had been in Ohio for decades so I doubt there was any pro-Confederate sentiment involved, just admiration for a great American.


28 posted on 07/09/2014 7:26:21 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Dilbert San Diego
"Turner and Brown wouldn’t work....Today’s idiot young liberals do not know their history, thus they have no idea who John Brown and Nat Turner were."

Of course not, but they would most likely know who Tina Turner and James Brown are :-)

29 posted on 07/09/2014 7:30:50 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: windcliff

They’re cowards.


30 posted on 07/09/2014 8:26:08 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: windcliff

This was the school which Lee put on the map.

Another shameful bow to political correctness.

Though I was just recently in Dixie, as I usually am at least twice a year. And I’ll tell you the Confederate Flag still flies Freely down there, along with the Stars and Stripes.

When that brand of real conservatism is wiped out, we’re dead.


31 posted on 07/09/2014 8:34:12 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Timber Rattler

You can bet the farm this “committee” will be making more demands soon. When you give a spoiled brat your little finger, he’ll want the whole hand.


32 posted on 07/10/2014 7:00:48 AM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be earned and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: Fiji Hill

Two of the early generation USN ballistic missile submarines (the “41 for Freedom” boats) were named after Lee and Stonewall Jackson.


33 posted on 07/10/2014 7:11:55 AM PDT by tanknetter
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