Except that Lee was a slave owner, and a person who served as slave overseer for a slave plantation.
A shameful thing that. One that the worshipers at the alter of Lee pretend didn’t happen, or worse yet, pretend it didn’t matter.
“Except that Lee was a slave owner, and a person who served as slave overseer for a slave plantation.”
Let’s see... Lee was a professional soldier right up to the end of the Civil War. But you manage to have him being an overseer for a slave plantation. There is no twisting of history too bizarre for you, is there donny boy?
“Except that Lee was a slave owner, and a person who served as slave overseer for a slave plantation...One that the worshipers at the alter of Lee pretend didn’t happen...”
Not sure what your point is. Many of the founders had slaves. Does that forever nullify other, more positive aspects of their personalities? I stated the man had character worthy of admirition, I didn’t say he was perfect. Nor did I express any veneration for him. I am no Lee/Southern worshiper, but neither am I a Lee/Southern hater. These are our brothers and sisters we are talking about...and talking to.
Why is it so hard to be generous to an old foe, long dead and buried? The fact that he was an honorable, if flawed, man seems to really stick in your craw.
Maybe President Lincoln’s words will help ease your anger towards our Southern friends:
“Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.”
And, the more familiar:
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”