[The_Reader_David]

An absolute outrage. Robert E. Lee, while a loyal Virginian, who served the Confederacy with distinction was, for his time at least, no racist, and opposed chatel slavery.

As an ex-Anglican, I am well aware of the incident during reconstruction when freed slaves first attended the same Episcopalian parish as Lee. When some went forward and knelt at the altar rail, the whites hung back until Lee went forward and knelt beside a black man.

This incident should be trumpetted to the PC nitwits and the sheep who are following them in dishonoring the great man's memory. (And I'm a born and bred Yankee.)

[WhiskeyPapa]

An absolute outrage. Robert E. Lee, while a loyal Virginian, who served the Confederacy with distinction was, for his time at least, no racist, and opposed chatel slavery.

Lee was clearly a supporter of slavery and class distinction. He couldn't even conceive of a beginning of the end of slavery. President Lincoln could.

But who gets attacked on FR?

Walt