Posted on 08/26/2017 2:43:58 PM PDT by Kaslin
All across the South, statues of Confederate heroes are being removed, warehoused, and in some cases destroyed. They are being removed under the false assumption that they are "symbols" of racism. That assumption is based on a grossly simplistic understanding of Southern history.
In a letter of Dec. 27, 1856 to his wife, Robert E. Lee called slavery a "moral and political evil." During his life, he emancipated slaves, created schools for slaves, and aided the passage of slaves to Liberia. In the context of the antebellum South, Lee was decidedly an enlightened individual. It is surprising that his statues are not being preserved to celebrate his moderate views.
It is true that, regardless of his personal views, Lee as commander of the Southern forces was defending slavery. That, however, was not Lee's motivation, nor was it that of Stonewall Jackson, another Southerner of moderate views. Forced to choose between commanding the armies of the North and those of the South (both of which offered him command), Lee chose the South out of loyalty to his home state of Virginia. Lee was a professional military officer who made a principled decision. He was regarded as such by many in the North, including Ulysses S. Grant, to whom he surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
It is important to note that in 1860, only twenty percent of Southerners owned slaves, and only a few thousand large slave-holding plantations existed. The upland South did not fight in defense of slavery, since slavery played a minor role in states such as North Carolina and Tennessee. Large-scale plantations did exist in the Deep South, many of them sites of great cruelty, but these were the exception. Even in the Deep South, a majority of whites owned no slaves.
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We go until the monument destroyers fear destruction themselves.
No sooner, no later.
There’s no end to it. I expect fairly soon they’re going to outlaw country western music and any station that plays it. Listening to it or performing it will be a capital offense. As will wearing a cowboy hat, boots, shirt or buckle.
In the context of the antebellum South, Lee was decidedly an enlightened individual. It is surprising that his statues are not being preserved to celebrate his moderate views.
Thats because the horses %$#f WHO are doing this, don’t know their history, and the truth doesn’t matter to them.
We may be entering something such as Mao’s Cultural Revolution, in which knee jerk reactions and accusations are hurled forth, and rational discussion of the issues are not permitted.
There are a number of inconvenient truths listed in this article, but the radical types who are tearing down monuments do not care, and do not wish to have a rational discussion about slavery, causes of the civil war, whether Lee was an honorable man even if he led the army of the South.
Manufactured public opinion has never been good for anything or anybody—except the enemy...
Start putting up two statues in the place of everyone taken down.
Laugh in the face of those offended by history.
Perhaps things will be broader brushed like banning literature or music deemed offensive.
No William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles.
The Beatles sang “Revolution” back in the 1960’s saying ‘if you go around carrying picture of Chairman Mao, you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow”.
The Maoists of Antifa are involved in a Maoist “Cultural Revolution” today.
How times have changed........
Slavery blah blah blah
I’m sure they’d stop when they get to any statues, monuments, plaques, or public artworks there may be in the US of their heroes. ie, mass murderers like Mao, Stalin, Fidel, Che, etc.
It’s obvious these idiots are not getting it.
What about the statue of LBJ, who send the troops to Vietnam over a lie?
<>It is true that, regardless of his personal views, Lee as commander of the Southern forces was defending slavery.<>
It is true that, regardless of his personal views, President Lincoln as commander of the Northern forces was defending slavery.
Just change it to Nork and be done with it. Nork State, Nork City.
Can’t do that; people will think you’re referring to Newark NJ a dozen miles to the west (pronounced “Nork”, unlike New Ark DE to the south). I guess we’ll just have to use “New” - New State, New City...
How about Nyuk? I like that one, nice homage to the Three Stooges. Nyuk State, Nyuk City, Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk.
Perfect! That will work just fine.
That way, residents of Manhattan will have an address of Nyuk, Nyuck. I find that oddly appealing.
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