Far-left VA Dems wants Robert E. Lee’s statue removed from US Capitol

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In their effort to destroy all pride in the South because it’s RACIST, two Democrats want the statue of Robert E. Lee removed from the U.S. Capitol. This is absurd. The leftists are tearing down statues, holidays, and history so they can replace it with their own — the ‘1619 Project’, for example.

Whatever anyone thinks of this, Robert E. Lee was opposed to slavery and was fighting for States’ Rights. History should not be altered to say he was fighting for slavery. He was not. Even if he wasn’t, it’s history, bad or good. We understand slavery was the beneficiary of his war and he certainly knew that. What do you think?

Far-left Gov. Ralph Northam will push legislation in next year’s General Assembly session asking lawmakers to replace a statue of Robert E. Lee in the U.S. Capitol, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.

Lee and George Washington represent Virginia in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol. Virginia provided the statue of Lee, in his Confederate uniform, in 1909.

THESE TWO ARE FAR-LEFT

Far-left U.S. Reps. A. Donald McEachin, D-4th, and Jennifer Wexton, D-10th, wrote a letter to Northam on Friday asking him to push state legislation to notify the U.S. Capitol architect that Virginia would replace Lee with one of “countless commendable Virginians who would better represent our Commonwealth in the U.S. Capitol than a Confederate General.”

They mentioned replacing him with Nat Turner, who led a slave rebellion, or educator and author Booker T. Washington. Why not ask to add one of those statues and leave Lee? Lee founded Washington & Lee University and some students want the names removed from their diplomas.

They better go after Yale. That founder was a slaver. There is no end to this.

Alabama and Florida have removed statues in the U.S. Capitol honoring Confederates, McEachin and Wexton wrote, and Florida and Arkansas are adding statues of civil rights activists Mary McLeod Bethune and Daisy Bates.


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guidvce4
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guidvce4
4 years ago

Enough of this stupidity from the left. Time to crack down on those who would attempt remove any references to the past.
The idiots are just asking for the sensible folks to do something to stop them. Its called provocation.
They may get what they are asking for, and they won’t like it. Its all well and good when they have their litttle meetings planning out their little protests(riots). When the actual event recieves what they want, they may wish they had stayed in mom’s basement.
We have just about reached the tipping point in civil reaction to the idiots.
On the other hand, I’d like to thank the left for promoting gun sales for the last 10+ years. A booming industry in this nation.
Just sayin’.

HonorAmerica
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HonorAmerica
4 years ago

As I remember reading many decades ago when the Catholic church and various dictatorships banned books or burned them, as did the Nazi’s. You don’t erase history by banning or burning the reading of it. It happened and can’t be erased the telling of it will go on although versions of it may differ,depending on opinion but it never the less it happened and denying it won’t change it.
The same is true of inanimate objects like statues, removing them does not change the past.and what happen d yesterday or all the time before it. Only a neurotic fool obsesses about yesterday and tries to change it. What was,was. let it be a reminder that somethings should never happen again.
General Robert E. Lee was a brilliant general and strategist . Even Grant recognized it and respected him for it General Robert E. Lee was not a slave owner nor did he believe in slavery. He fought for States Rights.

John Vieira
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John Vieira
4 years ago
Reply to  HonorAmerica

Idiots abound nowadays as there are so many more idiots around to champion their idiotic causes. There are those who would change the past…as they do the present…to assuage their “sensibilities”. Alas that is why the mistakes of the past are repeated ad nauseum because of said idiots…

Charlie
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Charlie
4 years ago

What business is it, of theirs? They can’t run Virginia’s business. They need to WAKE UP and smell the coffee:-)

家里窝
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家里窝
4 years ago

天冷,窝在家里刷刷您的博客!

Tim Kuehl
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Tim Kuehl
4 years ago

General Robert E. Lee never owned slaves but General Ulysses Grand did. Are they clamoring to take Grant’s statues down?

Lionel Mandrake
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Lionel Mandrake
4 years ago
Reply to  Tim Kuehl

He’s next.