campgottagopee wrote
ScottyJack wrote
In response to the violence in Charlottesville, VA, Obama tweeted a quote from Nelson Mandela's 1994 autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom" Saturday that said, "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."
You bring up an excellent point. Let's take a look at why this happened. This violence erupted because we are going to remove a statue of General Robert E. Lee, a great southern General who's most known for his leadership during battle. If you know anything about him you would know he didn't want any monument erected in his name. He requested that it not be done. It wasn't until his death that these monuments were put up to honor his courage and leadership in battle. That was/is the original intent of these monuments. He was of poor means but the guy got lucky and married into money. It just so happened that his in-laws were slave owners. After their passing he inherited the slaves. It must be noted that he has reputation of being one nasty slave owner, not surprising given his military background. I'm thinking a General during war time is far from compassionate. At that time in our Country's history slavery was legal. Slavery didn't even start in our Country. But slavery certainly is a black eye in our Great Country's history. So now, by removing statues that have morphed into what they originally weren't meant to memorialize we are attempting to erase part of our Country's history. By taking flags away, statues away, that's what we are doing. Attempting to erase our Country's history. In this attempt to erase history people were killed. If we didn't take down a silly statue this never would've happened. If we're going to erase history then we need to STOP teaching about slavery, bigotry, racism, to our children in school. These kids would never even know it existed, Nepa has mentioned that several times and I agree with him.
Lee was a West Point Grad who was a TRAITOR to the United States, fought against the United States and fought on the side of slavery. He served 32 years for the USA before becoming a TRAITOR. He was not a recent West Point Grad where he might have not had the wisdom and experience to make his horrible decision. He knew what he was doing was wrong and dishonorable. Would you be ok if this current US Army General,
Robert B. Abrams, a West Point Grad, decided to switch over to the Russians? You cannot for 1 second misunderstand that Lee was a TRAITOR and Lee knew he was a TRAITOR. That is why he did not want any statues erected to honor him.
Those statues were put up decades after the Civil War to remind the black population the Whites were "Still In Charge". This is the only historical reference, intimidation of the black population. Would you be ok if Germany started putting up statues to Hitler, Himmler, Goering, Goebbels, Eichmann, Heydrich, and Mengele around the country side and in town squares?
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