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Robert E. Lee Descendant to Appear at VMAs
New York Post ^

Posted on 08/27/2017 3:46:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The Rev. Robert Wright Lee IV, a descendant of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, is scheduled to appear at Sunday night’s VMAs after publicly supporting the removal of the statue of his ancestor in Charlottesville, Va., and similar monuments.

An MTV spokesperson confirmed to Page Six on Sunday that Rev. Lee will make an appearance during the show, but declined to elaborate on his role in the ceremony.

A source tells us Rev. Lee feels “obligated” to speak out against racism following the white supremacist rally and tragic violence that surrounded the planned removal of the Gen. Lee statue in Charlottesville.

(Excerpt) Read more at pagesix.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: charlottesville; confederate; dixie; monuments; purge; statues; virginia
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If I was a descendant of Charlemagne...

LOL, most of us are.
21 posted on 08/27/2017 4:27:38 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: Brown Deer

He was actually a usurper.


22 posted on 08/27/2017 4:30:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: nickcarraway

I have a double whammy on me. My name is Robert, middle name Lee, AND I graduated from Robert E. Lee High School.

And damn proud of it!


23 posted on 08/27/2017 4:30:34 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: SmokingJoe
Being a descent of the great Robert E Lee is totally irrelevant to anything. It’s like bringing in the conservative hating son of Ronald Reagan (Ron Jnr) to be the final arbiter of conservatism.

True. I am related to Stonewall Jackson in a round about way, his aunt was my three times great-grandmother, but no gives a #&%@ what I have to say.

24 posted on 08/27/2017 4:40:45 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: nickcarraway

Does he have a sense of entitlement going on or what?


25 posted on 08/27/2017 4:44:52 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Well he won’t be able to appear on ESPN.


26 posted on 08/27/2017 4:50:09 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: nickcarraway

Oh so THIS Robert Lee can appear somewhere and not trigger these twits because they can get him to do their monkey dance?

And isnt this supposed to be a damn music awards show?


27 posted on 08/27/2017 4:56:10 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: nickcarraway

It runs in families, where a black sheep will come along and badmouth their forebears. Nothing young Lee says or does to curry the favor of Fake News will alter one millisecond of history. It is what it is. Reminds me of Benjamin Franklin, who was a Patriot Founder of our Nation. Franklin had a son, William, I think, who sided with the British and worked for the Crown in New Jersey. Ben Franklin, his father, thereafter referred to his son as “That little bastard.”


28 posted on 08/27/2017 5:02:40 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Read: Psalm 145. The whole psalm.....aloud; as praise to our God.)
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To: a fool in paradise

As far as anyone knows, he’s a limp wrist, and quite light in the loafers. Marital status, whatever arrangement that may be, is unknown.


29 posted on 08/27/2017 5:06:44 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Read: Psalm 145. The whole psalm.....aloud; as praise to our God.)
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To: freedumb2003
This problem really bites.

30 posted on 08/27/2017 5:43:14 PM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: a fool in paradise
Nope. Was married to Doria Palmieri for 34 years but they had no kids. She passed away in 2014. Ron Jnr is an atheist and an unabashed liberal.
31 posted on 08/27/2017 6:20:22 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Inyo-Mono

Maybe they should. You seem to have inherited plenty of common sense at the very minimum.


32 posted on 08/27/2017 6:24:20 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe
You seem to have inherited plenty of common sense at the very minimum.

Thanks, otherwise I wouldn't be on FR.

33 posted on 08/27/2017 7:13:29 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: PROCON

#11 Generally I agree with you on general principals that generally is used wrong generally speaking.


34 posted on 08/28/2017 12:47:26 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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