You have to understand, from his point of view it is OK to deny Southern WHITE people THEIR freedom to come and go as their states so chose, but not OK to deny freedom to a people sold by their own people into slavery, an institution (even if wrongly so) deemed LEGAL by the United States of America.
What I do not understand is why anyone who claims to oppose Marxism, would take a tack denouncing General Lee on the anniversary of his death, when most of us are deeply involved in trying to rescue America from the present descent into Marxist Socialism.
To most of us, an honorable Virginia gentleman, like Robert E. Lee, epitomizes the leadership we so sorely need today. We do not need a revival of the hated rhetoric of Karl Marx's pen pal, Thad Stevens. (See, for example, Civil War, Reconstruction & Creating Hate In America Today.)
William Flax