Posted on 01/20/2012 3:28:33 PM PST by BigReb555
Dr. Edward C. Smith, respected African-American Professor of History at American University in Washington, D.C., told the audience in Atlanta, Georgia during a 1995 Robert E. Lee birthday event, ‘Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee were individuals worthy of emulation because they understood history.’
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You are an angry old man. I hope you find peace.
Mosby replied, “Well, it made you famous.”
Nor let us forget he was a traitor to his country, fighting to maintain the “right” for a small minority to keep human beings as property.
He caused thousands and thousands of casualties.
He lost and surrendered in disgrace.
LEST WE FORGET!
George Pickett
Lee was man of honor.
Picket was a scumbag war criminal.
Good post. Wish more Northerners on these threads were of your sort. Instead we are plagued with haters.
George Washington voluntarily took up arms against the existing legal government, a traitor to the Crown in a war of secession against the United Kingdom.
The Royal Governor of Virginia declared that any slave who would fight for the Crown would be emancipated. A fact that put Washington, a slaveowner, in the position of fighting to preserve slavery. The descendants of Martha Washington’s slaves were inherited by Lee’s wife, who was Martha’s great granddaughter.
George Washington: First in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of Nine Percent of his Countrymen, a phrase coined by Robert E Lee’s own father, General Henry “Lighthorse Harry” Lee.
Perhaps you’re going to have to throw Washington under the bus in order to remain consistent.
You don’t - and can’t - repudiate my comments so you default to the loser Leftist tactic of a personal attack. How DU of you.
You are quite correct.
What I find ironic here on FR are those who speak of Lee and such as traitors. They were loyal to the government they were supposed to under the Constitution, their State (as in the United “States”) So it is rather odd to see conservatives who speak of the Constitution and states rights to take issue with Lee's actions.
Today given the number of Yanks in the South who live here to escape the crumbling cities and such of the North I truly wonder who lost the war in the end...
Marines get a rap for being below average in IQ, your posts don't help alleviate that impression.
Only the stupid could forget the tyranny that Lincoln's war bequeathed this once great republic. Sic semper tyrannis.
Looks like some of your fellow jarheads had a different view of the Confederacy.
I usually find that when a Yankee starts talking smack about the south and such that a Southern girl once broke his heart.
Of course we Southern boys can understand that to some degree and have some pity for the poor fool...
Even more sockpuppetry BigReb555? How unbecoming of you. How many times are you going to post this crap?
I’m an old history loving southerner and my views have evolved over decades until they seem to fit exactly with what you have expressed. I am descended from confederate veterans on both sides of the family and have never personally known a black person who shared my surname or the maiden name of my mother. My paternal great grandfather, born 100 years before me, did not fight to preserve slavery, he was a poor man who never owned a slave. He fought in vain trying to defend his homeland. When I think of Lincoln’s words about preserving the union I am reminded of the words of the officer in Vietnam who said that the village had to be destroyed in order to save it.
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