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%.