Students Demand Acknowledgement of Robert E. Lee's 'Racist and Dishonorable Conduct'

http://www.breitbart.com ^ | April 17, 2014 | AWR Hawkins

[NKP_Vet]

A group of seven multiracial Washington and Lee University (W&L) students are demanding the school remove all Confederate flags from campus and "acknowledge" General Robert E. Lee's "dishonorable side."

According to the Roanoke Times, "seven multiracial students, calling themselves 'The Committee,'" have also demanded the school "acknowledge and apologize for participating in chattel slavery." They want recognition of "Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the undergraduate campus" and an end to "neo-Confederates" marching across campus "to the Lee Chapel on Lee-Jackson Day."

The students say they will "engage in civil disobedience" if their demands are not met by September 1st.

They added: "The time has come for us, as students, to ask that the university hold itself responsible for its past and present dishonorable conduct and for the racist and dishonorable conduct of Robert E. Lee."

[Forward the Light Brigade]

They should re-name the College Martin Luther King Jr. and let all black enter with free tution. All White teachers fired for racism-—Only the Pan-African Flag should fly over this school and classes in Black Muslims and Social Justice be taught.

[SunkenCiv]

"I didn't even know there was a Lee Jackson Day."

[GOYAKLA]

We unfortunately live in a era far removed from those ideals, in most cases.
I have seen at my age kindness from many and violence from many. In the WW2 era there was many helping hands and many hindering hands.
I honestly believe than it all depends on the levels being taught at a very early age, that love for yourself and others is the basic bottom line!
To this day I remember the stop on a long,hot and dusty 3 day road trip(Miami to NW Alabama, 1940) at an old country church(Ga.). While resting in the shade of oak trees a farmer came and gave us three watermelons. That is what i consider the real greatness of what mankind should be.
Sorry, for the long & melancholy opus.
Or should it have been “Melon”choly?

[GOYAKLA]

Rename, maybe Washington and Leroy? Or Levonia?

[pgkdan]

Expel these worthless pieces of crap forthwith!!!

[Nea Wood]

My fear is that by the time that happens, Whitey will be such a small minority, it will matter even less what he thinks. Seems to me the time to wake up and stop playing their games is NOW.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Everyone is allowed to be young and stupid. When you add radical liberalism to the mix it always gets ugly. You’re in school to learn. STFU and go to class.

[MacNaughton]

21 Lee freed his slaves long before there was a Confederacy and long before many Union officers did.

22 These “students” need to read a history book. Lee freed his slaves before the Civil War. ...

According to Wikipedia - Robert E. Lee, Lee freed his wife's slaves in 1962. He did not inherit any slaves from his father, Harry "Lighthorse."

As the millenial white generation continues to not marry or marry later in life, both of which results in lower birthrates, and continue to not go to church, the Christian moral culture of this nation will continue in its death spiral. At some point down the pike, the non-whites, and liberal whites, will demand the demolition of the Confederate statues on Monument Ave. in Richmond, VA, and the "carving" on Stone Mtn., GA. Demography is destiny.

 1965 – U.S. population was 87.8% white and 10.5% black.

 1965 - 3.1% of white infants were born out of wedlock and 24% of black infants were.

 2012 – More U.S. babies were born to minorities than whites. The white population in the U.S. declined for the 1st time in history, something that did not even take place during big wars and the great depression. The number of white Americans who died outnumbered the white Americans who were born by 12,400.

 2012 - D.C., HI, CA, NM, and TX had minority populations >50%.

 2012 - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) began issuing green cards (permanent legal resident) to same sex spouses.

 2013 – U.S. population is 63% white, 15% Hispanic, and 13% black. (a 24.8% decrease of whites over 48 years since the passage of the 1965 Hart-Celler Act)

 2013 - >45% of students in K-12 are minorities.

 2013 – Democrats in Congress are attempting to reform U.S. immigration law to provide a path to citizenship for a majority of the ~11-30 million illegal alien Hispanics believed to be in the U.S. If this happens, it will dramatically alter the USCB projections of the racial make-up of the U.S. population. Democrats are also working for a policy change that covers illegal alien homosexuals in the U.S. to provide them a path to full citizenship.

 2013 – 40% of live births in the U.S. were out of wedlock. White rate = 33%, Hispanic rate = 50%, Black rate = 72%. Conservative thinkers point to POTUS #36 LBJ’s Great Society and “war on poverty” social entitlement programs begun in 1964 as the major contributor to this. Personal responsibility was abdicated to the federal government.

 2018 - U.S. Census Bureau projects the number of non-white children in grades K-12 will be >50%.

 2020 - 8 more states (AZ, FL, GA, MD, MS, NV, NJ, and NY) are projected to become minority majority.

 2024 - The white population is projected to peak at 200 million before entering a steady decline in absolute numbers.

 2039 - Racial and ethnic minorities will make up a majority of the U.S. work-age population. They will be helping to support a disproportionately elderly white population through Social Security and other payroll taxes. More than 1 in 4 people ages 18-64 will be latino.

 2043 – Whites are projected to decline to <50% of the population. Racial and ethnic minorities will collectively become a U.S. majority. Hispanics will drive most of the minority growth, due mostly to high birth rates, jumping in share from 17 % (2013) to 26%.

[Boomer One]

Given their assumed ages of about 22, I’m sure they were taught the more modern and false revisionist history. Even my own children, ages 38-44, were taught a watered down version of Virginia history in public schools. But then isn’t this the goal of Common Core, to ensure that we must all be the same? Thus individual state histories are barely taught or modified to blend with the desires of those wanting a global government.

[ExCTCitizen]

By 2020, America will be on the path to destruction. This November and in 2016, we need strong leaders to tell Mexico that we do not need their population. We need to reform our immigration laws so Europeans can move here. We need to tell big business that since they built factories in Mexico, they do not need ILLEGALS working in their US factories.

We need a fence, strict deportation of illegals (with GPS tracking on them, so if try again we can shoot them), no more anchor babies (any anchor babies less than 24 will be deported, any an hour babies older than 24 with be fined 30K per year they are a d if they can't pay, deport them.

[ExCTCitizen]

Or Washington and Trayvon...

[X Fretensis]

Not quite the case, You stated “Slavery was legal in many states up North to the day of the first shot fired.” Maryland ended slavery in 1864, Missouri in 1865. The states of Kentucky and Delaware did not end slavery until the adoption of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in Dec.1865.