[socialism_stinX]

Yeah, my understanding is that Robert E. Lee was a Virginian first and he joined the confederacy because Virginia was a state in the confederacy. If Virginia had been in the Union he would have joined the union army.

I don’t understand these people who want to remove confederate monuments. It’s seems to be something liberal politicians support to score easy political points and divert the public’s attention from the bad conditions in many democrat-run cities. We should not be tearing down old historic monuments. The confederacy was 152 years ago and US society has advanced greatly since then. It’s just history now. I’m a history buff and I love to look at old monuments and buildings, especially because we don’t many monuments or buildings built before 1900 out here in the far west. 80% of our architecture is post WW II. It’s just dumb, pointless, and somewhat Orwellian to be destroying historical monuments and trying to erase history. There’s no need to apologize for history and heritage, but it’s the right tactics to condemn this violence that happened last weekend.

[socialism_stinX]

Correction, post 59 should say “we don’t have many monuments or buildings built before 1900 out here in the far west”.

[Impala64ssa]

I don’t understand these people who want to remove confederate monuments
Reminds me of a (I HATE this smarmy phrase) teachable moment when I was a young skull full of mush. When we drove to FL in the winter, since I-95 wasn't fully completed yet we'd go through most of the Carolinas and GA on US 301. In the center of one of the towns in NC (Lumberton?) is a stage originally used for auctioning off slaves. I asked my parents why this terrible thing wasn't taken down. My wise dear old Dad explained to me that it's part of our history and as great as this country is, not all of our history was good. We need to remember these things not to beat ourselves up over or to keep perpetuating animosities, but to resolve to NEVER allow these horrors to occur ever again.