https://www.reddit.com/r/ShermanPosting/comments/1iw3i8g/simon_bolivar_buckner_jr_at_okinawa/
Man this link has to be a nest where many of them congregate
Good lord
Fwiw everyone was racist then
Not that I care one wit
‘Dwight Eisenhower, who considered Lee one of the four greatest Americans and hung his portrait in the Oval Office alongside those of the other three (Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Lincoln). “General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation,” Eisenhower wrote, “selfless almost to a fault and unfailing in his faith in God. Taken altogether, he was noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history.”’
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/there-goes-robert-e-lee/
I'm saying nobody was "racist" in 1860 because there was no such word as "racist" or "racism" in 1860.
Many argue that the word "racism" was coined by the Communist Leon Trotsky in 1927, as a slur against anti-Communists.
It's first appearance in English dates to the 1930s.
Today, by Woke-Democrat definitions, everybody who's not "woke" is a racist, sexist, homophobe, islamophobe, transphobe or "you name it", as Hillary said in her "basket of deplorables" rant.
That's why I don't think there's any value in calling people like Lincoln words that didn't even exist in 1860.