Was Lee even considered to be evil by blacks EVER?
One of my black co-workers said to me that he has two uncles with the middle name Lee. It was considered to be such a revered name in the south and synonymous with honorable and selflessness on both sides.
If he was such a detested figure, then he would have been hung at the first opportunity, jailed for life, or shot by a disgruntled northerner.
Growing up here in Michigan I don’t recall ever being taught that Lee was a bad person in any way. He was given the same level of respect as Grant.
traditionally Lee has not been reviled, except by a very few nasty jerks. It does appear, now, that all things southern must be held up to ridicule, if not totally torn from American history. If you give them an inch, they take a mile.
Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House; but we are expected to keep surrendering every damned day to these vile creatures.
My grandfather was named ROBERT LEE, was a Tennessean, didn’t think Lincoln walked on water.
The present contrived hatred against the old South, did not arise among the Southern Negroes. Read (and hear) the testimony of Booker T. Washington, the great Negro educator, who emerged as the major spokesman for the Black Southerners in 1895 on race relations: Booker T. Washington Address.
The virulent hatred now stirred up in America is primarily the achievement of White Leftists. They have been working to this end for over a century now, as a way to destabalize America. It is ugly and likely to get uglier, unless people wake up to the tactics and process: (See Creating Hate In America Today.)
One of the most stirring images of the Civil War, whether rendered in written word or in painting, is that of an Abolitionist, former Maine college professor and Brevet Major General in the Army of the Potomac named Joshua Chamberlain calling the AOTP to “carry arms” in salute to the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia as they filed by in surrender at Appomattox.
That the meaning and relevance of such things are lost on today’s generation of Social Justice Bullies isn’t surprising ...