Posted on 12/21/2020 9:35:46 AM PST by EinNYC
A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed overnight from its perch in the US Capitol where it has stood next to George Washington for 111 years and will be replaced by one honoring a civil rights icon from Virginia.
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Exactly. No integrity, no sense of honor or commitment, just spineless wimps.
I used to strive to treat people the way Robert E. Lee might treat them, but if they want my inner Sherman to judge them, so be it.
I wish I had a place to put these statues.
I would shoot rioters trying to tear them down.
Thank You Nimrata Randhawa
It’s not her history, why should she care?
It was during the George W. Bush administrations open borders policy that VA was so flooded with foreigners that we lost any hope of winning elections.
This was a bipartisan plan to steal the country from the citizens.
This pisses me off more than anything I’ve ever read in my life. I sit here steaming. Lee personally took the fight into Mexico and risked his very life long before the civil war. These traitors are now letting Mexicans invade our country and murder our citizens at will. Where are the enabling republicans. I will spit on anyone who tells me I should ever vote for one of these f’n traitors again. I’m looking at you “Wave the flag in my face” Wenstrup.
America now has its own Taliban who destroy any thing of history they don’t agree with.
Has anyone heard anything about the statue park that Trump spoke about creating during his July 4 speech ?
FWIW, my wife is a direct descendant of a half-sister of Pocahontas and by the same relationship, a distant cousin of baseball great Rogers Hornsby.
I’m a Thomas Rolfe descendant!
So I claim Virginia for myself and the remaining Anglo-Lumbee descendants like Heather Locklear!
Northam is a descendant of the Plantation slave owner class, so if he wants to make up for the stain of his great great grandparents misdeeds he can always donate everything he has and head on home to Merry Old England!
I’m staying here with Heather!!
Next up: Monticello and Mount Vernon to be sold off to real estate developers -
Anyone surprised?
You can blame Asians and government employees in NoVa for turning the state over to folks like Northrup.
Glad to meet you cousin by marriage. I think you’d be a 15th cousin or so to my wife. Northam is an invading interloping carpetbagger.
“People forget that we as unique individuals are only here today because of the actions and interactions of those that came before us.”
Let’s see. My dad served and fought in against the Nazis in Europe for the United States Army. His service changed the path of his life so that he would meet the woman that would become my mother. Had it not been for Hitler and WWII, I would not exist. I get that, but I never was and never will be be thankful to the Nazis for my existence.
“Northam is an invading interloping carpetbagger”
And that’s all he is!
The Tailban purge of our sacred heritage continues onward my prediction that’ll now go after the ones on the battlefields too.
“Lee’s cruelty as a slave master was not confined to physical punishment. In Reading the Man, the historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor’s portrait of Lee through his writings, Pryor writes that “Lee ruptured the Washington and Custis tradition of respecting slave families” by hiring them off to other plantations, and that “by 1860 he had broken up every family but one on the estate, some of whom had been together since Mount Vernon days.” The separation of slave families was one of the most unfathomably devastating aspects of slavery, and Pryor wrote that Lee’s slaves regarded him as “the worst man I ever see.”
The trauma of rupturing families lasted lifetimes for the enslaved—it was, as my colleague Ta-Nehisi Coates described it, “a kind of murder.” After the war, thousands of the emancipated searched desperately for kin lost to the market for human flesh, fruitlessly for most. In Reconstruction, the historian Eric Foner quotes a Freedmen’s Bureau agent who notes of the emancipated, “In their eyes, the work of emancipation was incomplete until the families which had been dispersed by slavery were reunited.”
Lee’s heavy hand on the Arlington, Virginia, plantation, Pryor writes, nearly led to a slave revolt, in part because the enslaved had been expected to be freed upon their previous master’s death, and Lee had engaged in a dubious legal interpretation of his will in order to keep them as his property, one that lasted until a Virginia court forced him to free them.
When two of his slaves escaped and were recaptured, Lee either beat them himself or ordered the overseer to “lay it on well.” Wesley Norris, one of the slaves who was whipped, recalled that “not satisfied with simply lacerating our naked flesh, Gen. Lee then ordered the overseer to thoroughly wash our backs with brine, which was done.””
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