Posted on 12/27/2022 7:32:38 AM PST by Red Badger
As a response to a federal order by the Department of Defense, West Point is starting to remove all Confederate statues and portraits from its campus.
West Point Superintendent Lieutenant General Steve Gilland broke the news and stated “During the holiday break, we will begin a multi-phased process, in accordance with Department of Defense directives, to remove, rename or modify assets and real property at the United States Military Academy and West Point installation that commemorate or memorialize the Confederacy or those who voluntarily served with the Confederacy”.
One of the most notable Confederate portraits that will be removed is General Robert E. Lee’s portrait.
Besides Lee’s portrait, a stone image of him along with several plaques of his likeness will also be removed.
Most people only know Robert E. Lee as the General of the Confederate Army but before choosing to side with the Confederacy he served 32 years in the US military.
Lee started off his military career by being the top graduate at West Point and made a name for himself during the Mexican-American War where at one point he even worked side by side with General Ulysses S. Grant.
After the Mexican American War, Lee was later named as the Superintendent of West Point.
In the years leading up to the Civil War, Lee condemned any states succeeding from the Union and stated they were betraying the Founding Fathers.
Advisor to President Lincoln Union Army General Winfield Scott even requested Robert E. Lee to be the new general of the Union Army.
Lee, however, would deny the opportunity and would eventually resign from the US military in order to join forces with the Confederate Army shortly after Virginia succeeded from the Union.
His reason was he didn’t want to betray his native state of Virginia.
You sound like the kind of guy that if your wife wanted a divorce you’d kidnap her and abuse her while claiming she had no right to leave you.
In all seriousness, people have the right to freely associate or disassociate. Yankee Puritans have been forcing themselves on others since the moment they hit the shores. They continue to do so today with their woke BS.
Lee’s only flaw is he wasn’t ultimately victorious.
Excuse the repeat, got distracted and carried away with the theme.
> Lee broke his West Point oath - He failed to “support the Constitution of The United States” and he attempted to overthrow the Government of the United States. <
That’s an interesting argument, and has merit. The counter-argument is that Lee just wanted to leave the United States. He didn’t want to destroy the entire country.
This whole mess could have been avoided if the Founders had included a way for a state to peacefully leave the Union. Such a method should have been lengthy and difficult, but possible.
I’ve been there, toured the home................
“The Arlington slaves were freed just as the war began . . .”
Not sure this is entirely accurate. Seems like I read somewhere that General Lee was still working the issue about the time of the Fredericksburg fight in 1862.
All Confederate soldiers have been classified by the US government as United States Veterans.
This is a stick in the eye to all Patriots.
He did not, although that is the way it is portrayed by Nancy Pelosi and others who repeat her every word.
I tend to accept the version General Dwight Eisenhower; if you know what I mean.
“I don’t think that before the current radicalism, black Americans had any hatred for REL.”
Agreed.
If you really look at the movement behind removing Confederate statues, renaming schools for whatever PC reason, etc., the leaders are primarily white urban liberals.
It was not necessary to have a complicated process. At the time of the founding, the concept of unalienable rights were widely understood, at least of this side of the Atlantic.
“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and for a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”
This explanation was shared on the floor of the House of Representatives in 1848 by Congressman Abraham Lincoln.
As I say, it was widely understood and noncontroversial at the time. I don't care what Nancy Pelosi says.
Hey Yankee. So did every filthy ‘Rat and GOP traitor in Congress, the “Intelligence” agencies , and every Deep State bureaucrat.
<>Orwell actually underestimated it.<>
How so?
The American Taliban.
"There should be a special losers gallery for those who fought against the United States of America and lost."
The last black person I spoke to about the CW, thought that Lincoln was Democrap.
It’s not directly to do with blacks... It’s to remove any negative things that the Democraps have done in history (so it can be rewritten).
He was a great American general before the civil war, and he did great honor to the nation after that war, to help heal the nation’s wounds.
MOST great heroes were not and are not saints. We do not have to ignore their errors, but it also wrong to ignore their achievments.
Another mommy I don’t like that woke moment another bite taken from the freedom of choice.
General Lee was unavailable for comment citing his death as the reason. The Feds dismissed that argument as “mere speculation”.
U S Grant was a better general than Lee. Lee became a true national hero for bringing the Civil War to an end after Grant beat and surrounded his army in the Spring of 1865. Taking his portraits and statues is no reason to be upset 🇺🇸
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