Robert E Lee & The Confederate Solider statue removed in Dallas

[22lcidw]

Statue sold for $1.4 million. Why are we removing the in the first place because they owned slaves and that makes it racist today. What’s next all our money? George Washington owned 30 himself is he know a piece of shit? The Left gets offended by EVERYTHING in the past because they’re personally so inadequate in the present.

Um, not, it's being removed because he betrayed the country over slavery.

Time to stop honoring traitors. Take them all down.

Just like the Taliban, destroying art, trying to erase history. History haunts them, even if they try to mangle the history books.
History is history, the truth is the truth, deal with it.

Yes, history is history.

And there was nothing noble or honorable about Lee, which is why he should be expunged from any place of honor. .

There was everything noble and honorable about Lee. His father died when Lee was 11. They had a very tough existence. Lee applied to West Point and was accepted when he was 17. The rest is history. There is no record of Robert E. Lee owning land or slaves. So what's the bitch?
Robert E. Lee - Wikipedia
"Lee was a top graduate of the United States Military Academy and an exceptional officer and military engineer in the United States Army for 32 years. During this time, he served throughout the United States, distinguished himself during the Mexican–American War, and served as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy."

Lee was a military man his entire life and never owned slaves. He inherited some slaves when his wife died. Having no use for them they were freed.

The Lees had extensive slave holdings
He never emancipated them

You are thinking of Theodore Lee from the next town over. Just moved down from the North. Boston native. A common mistake.

 

[boilermaker55]

It is beyond hypocritical you even make a statement like have. When someone criticizes trump , they are all listed as traitors and "libtards' and now you make this comment.
How utterly stupid and ridiculous.

Statue sold for $1.4 million. Why are we removing the in the first place because they owned slaves and that makes it racist today. What’s next all our money? George Washington owned 30 himself is he know a piece of shit? The Left gets offended by EVERYTHING in the past because they’re personally so inadequate in the present.

Um, not, it's being removed because he betrayed the country over slavery.

Time to stop honoring traitors. Take them all down.

Just like the Taliban, destroying art, trying to erase history. History haunts them, even if they try to mangle the history books.
History is history, the truth is the truth, deal with it.

Yes, history is history.

And there was nothing noble or honorable about Lee, which is why he should be expunged from any place of honor. .

time to stop calling everyone who doesn't think like you a traitor.

if you want to create a brave new world, have at it. but all this demonizing the people of our past to me is the bullshit in action.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Statue sold for $1.4 million. Why are we removing the in the first place because they owned slaves and that makes it racist today. What’s next all our money? George Washington owned 30 himself is he know a piece of shit? The Left gets offended by EVERYTHING in the past because they’re personally so inadequate in the present.

Um, not, it's being removed because he betrayed the country over slavery.

Time to stop honoring traitors. Take them all down.

Just like the Taliban, destroying art, trying to erase history. History haunts them, even if they try to mangle the history books.
History is history, the truth is the truth, deal with it.

Yes, history is history.

And there was nothing noble or honorable about Lee, which is why he should be expunged from any place of honor. .

If you knew American history, then you would know that Robert E Lee was a very honorable man. Liberalism twists people's minds into thinking that anti-American con men like Obama are honorable while great men from our history like Lee are not.

Lee was an honorable man, revered by all Americans at the time, North and South.

This movement to remove monuments to Lee, a man who was pardoned, and with whom our entire nation reconciled (along with this movement to remove all memorials to nameless soldiers who did their duty in war) is an act of open hostility. It is an act of revoking long-standing peace agreements.

The South paid the price for its rebellion. Southern states were reunited with northern states as equal members in the union, were they not?

Did the two sides reconcile or not?

To continue exacting punishment on the South and its history/heritage is openly revoking peace agreements.

It is an act of war.

.

 

[boilermaker55]

The victorious Union should have take all they wanted and left the traitors of the south with nothing.
To the victor goes the spoils.

Statue sold for $1.4 million. Why are we removing the in the first place because they owned slaves and that makes it racist today. What’s next all our money? George Washington owned 30 himself is he know a piece of shit? The Left gets offended by EVERYTHING in the past because they’re personally so inadequate in the present.

Um, not, it's being removed because he betrayed the country over slavery.

Time to stop honoring traitors. Take them all down.

Just like the Taliban, destroying art, trying to erase history. History haunts them, even if they try to mangle the history books.
History is history, the truth is the truth, deal with it.

Yes, history is history.

And there was nothing noble or honorable about Lee, which is why he should be expunged from any place of honor. .

If you knew American history, then you would know that Robert E Lee was a very honorable man. Liberalism twists people's minds into thinking that anti-American con men like Obama are honorable while great men from our history like Lee are not.

Lee was an honorable man, revered by all Americans at the time, North and South.

This movement to remove monuments to Lee, a man who was pardoned, and with whom our entire nation reconciled, along with the movement to remove all memorials to soldiers who did their duty in war, is an act of open hostility. It is revoking peace agreements.

The South paid the price for its rebellion. Southern states were reunited with northern states as equal members in the union, did they not?

Did the two sides reconcile or not?

To continue exacting punishment on the South and its history/heritage is openly revoking peace agreements.

It is an act of war.

.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Statue sold for $1.4 million. Why are we removing the in the first place because they owned slaves and that makes it racist today. What’s next all our money? George Washington owned 30 himself is he know a piece of shit? The Left gets offended by EVERYTHING in the past because they’re personally so inadequate in the present.

Um, not, it's being removed because he betrayed the country over slavery.

No, it and others are being removed by Democrats because they are reminders of the Democrats' heritage of slavery and treason, and Americans are letting them do it.

Say that's a nice spin. Let me try it. So the protesters in Charlotte wanted the statue to remain because they wanted to keep reminding the current Democrats that the Southern elitist slave holders also called themselves Democrats, not their adulation of the racism the Confederacy stood for!

That describes the bulk of the protest, yes. A Taliban-style destruction of history should not be permitted.

The Democrats' feeble attempt to turn scattered white supremacists into a nationwide boogeyman is ludicrous at best. Their numbers are dwarfed even by ANTIFA.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

The victorious Union should have take all they wanted and left the traitors of the south with nothing.
To the victor goes the spoils.

Statue sold for $1.4 million. Why are we removing the in the first place because they owned slaves and that makes it racist today. What’s next all our money? George Washington owned 30 himself is he know a piece of shit? The Left gets offended by EVERYTHING in the past because they’re personally so inadequate in the present.

Um, not, it's being removed because he betrayed the country over slavery.

Time to stop honoring traitors. Take them all down.

Just like the Taliban, destroying art, trying to erase history. History haunts them, even if they try to mangle the history books.
History is history, the truth is the truth, deal with it.

Yes, history is history.

And there was nothing noble or honorable about Lee, which is why he should be expunged from any place of honor. .

If you knew American history, then you would know that Robert E Lee was a very honorable man. Liberalism twists people's minds into thinking that anti-American con men like Obama are honorable while great men from our history like Lee are not.

Lee was an honorable man, revered by all Americans at the time, North and South.

This movement to remove monuments to Lee, a man who was pardoned, and with whom our entire nation reconciled, along with the movement to remove all memorials to soldiers who did their duty in war, is an act of open hostility. It is revoking peace agreements.

The South paid the price for its rebellion. Southern states were reunited with northern states as equal members in the union, did they not?

Did the two sides reconcile or not?

To continue exacting punishment on the South and its history/heritage is openly revoking peace agreements.

It is an act of war.

.

The union should have razed the entirety of the south.

 

[rightwinger]

Statue sold for $1.4 million. Why are we removing the in the first place because they owned slaves and that makes it racist today. What’s next all our money? George Washington owned 30 himself is he know a piece of shit? The Left gets offended by EVERYTHING in the past because they’re personally so inadequate in the present.

Um, not, it's being removed because he betrayed the country over slavery.

Time to stop honoring traitors. Take them all down.

Just like the Taliban, destroying art, trying to erase history. History haunts them, even if they try to mangle the history books.
History is history, the truth is the truth, deal with it.

Yes, history is history.

And there was nothing noble or honorable about Lee, which is why he should be expunged from any place of honor. .

If you knew American history, then you would know that Robert E Lee was a very honorable man. Liberalism twists people's minds into thinking that anti-American con men like Obama are honorable while great men from our history like Lee are not.

Lee was an honorable man, revered by all Americans at the time, North and South.

This movement to remove monuments to Lee, a man who was pardoned, and with whom our entire nation reconciled (along with this movement to remove all memorials to nameless soldiers who did their duty in war) is an act of open hostility. It is an act of revoking long-standing peace agreements.

The South paid the price for its rebellion. Southern states were reunited with northern states as equal members in the union, were they not?

Did the two sides reconcile or not?

To continue exacting punishment on the South and its history/heritage is openly revoking peace agreements.

It is an act of war.

.

White city governments spent money honoring Civil War heroes without regard to the feelings of their black citizens

Those cities are now run by black elected officials who do not feel the same about those monuments

Let the local governments who run the parks decide

 

[BlindBoo]

A Taliban-style destruction of history should not be permitted.

Removal to a different location and auctioned off to the highest bidder is hardly a tactic the Taliban used.

 

[rightwinger]

Myths & Misunderstandings | Lee as a slaveholder | American Civil War Museum

In an 1866 account, Norris recalled,

[W]e were immediately taken before Gen. Lee, who demanded the reason why we ran away; we frankly told him that we considered ourselves free; he then told us he would teach us a lesson we never would forget; he then ordered us to the barn, where, in his presence, we were tied firmly to posts by a Mr. Gwin, our overseer, who was ordered by Gen. Lee to strip us to the waist and give us fifty lashes each, excepting my sister, who received but twenty; we were accordingly stripped to the skin by the overseer, who, however, had sufficient humanity to decline whipping us; accordingly Dick Williams, a county constable, was called in, who gave us the number of lashes ordered; Gen. Lee, in the meantime, stood by, and frequently enjoined Williams to lay it on well, an injunction which he did not fail to heed; not satisfied with simply lacerating our naked flesh, Gen. Lee then ordered the overseer to thoroughly wash our backs with brine, which was done.

Slaves ran away because they did not consider slavery legitimate

Lee ordered them stripped to the waist and given 50 lashes while Lee watched

He then ordered salt in the open wounds

 

[McRocket]

Statue sold for $1.4 million. Why are we removing the in the first place because they owned slaves and that makes it racist today. What’s next all our money? George Washington owned 30 himself is he know a piece of shit? The Left gets offended by EVERYTHING in the past because they’re personally so inadequate in the present. ‘Robert E. Lee & The Confederate Soldier’ Sculpture Removed From Dallas Park Sells For $1.4M

30 slaves? What the fuck are you talking about? He had hundreds of slaves and treated them hardly better then garbage.

George Washington - Wikipedia

And yes, it DOES make him a piece of shit (I have said that for many years). He was a great general and solid POTUS...but he was a terrible human being.


And I couldn't give a shit what they do with ANY statue...they are just hunks of stone/granite/whatever. They mean NOTHING.
As far as I am concerned, they can take every statue EVER made, ANYWHERE and blow them all up (or paint them pink or red or blue or whatever)...I DON'T MUCH CARE.

Anyone who freaks out over a statue (unless they created it themselves) needs to get a fucking life.

 

[rightwinger]

A Taliban-style destruction of history should not be permitted.

Removal to a different location and auctioned off to the highest bidder is hardly a tactic the Taliban used.

Local Governments decided to erect those monuments, they can decide to take them down or relocate them

 

[rightwinger]

Why don’t we have have monuments to the British who colonized us and the Brits who died fighting against our freedom ?

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

The victorious Union should have take all they wanted and left the traitors of the south with nothing.
To the victor goes the spoils.

Statue sold for $1.4 million. Why are we removing the in the first place because they owned slaves and that makes it racist today. What’s next all our money? George Washington owned 30 himself is he know a piece of shit? The Left gets offended by EVERYTHING in the past because they’re personally so inadequate in the present.

Um, not, it's being removed because he betrayed the country over slavery.

Time to stop honoring traitors. Take them all down.

Just like the Taliban, destroying art, trying to erase history. History haunts them, even if they try to mangle the history books.
History is history, the truth is the truth, deal with it.

Yes, history is history.

And there was nothing noble or honorable about Lee, which is why he should be expunged from any place of honor. .

If you knew American history, then you would know that Robert E Lee was a very honorable man. Liberalism twists people's minds into thinking that anti-American con men like Obama are honorable while great men from our history like Lee are not.

Lee was an honorable man, revered by all Americans at the time, North and South.

This movement to remove monuments to Lee, a man who was pardoned, and with whom our entire nation reconciled, along with the movement to remove all memorials to soldiers who did their duty in war, is an act of open hostility. It is revoking peace agreements.

The South paid the price for its rebellion. Southern states were reunited with northern states as equal members in the union, did they not?

Did the two sides reconcile or not?

To continue exacting punishment on the South and its history/heritage is openly revoking peace agreements.

It is an act of war.

.

Well, they couldn't, because the war would have gone guerrilla, and lasted forever. The North agreed to the terms of surrender. Now they apparently want to resume hostilities.

Is that what your dumb ass wants?

.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Why don’t we have have monuments to the British who colonized us and the Brits who died fighting against our freedom ?

Because we didn't agree to reconcile with Britain and remain British.

I bet you though that was a cleaver statement, didn't you?

.

 

[sartre play]

There was everything noble and honorable about Lee. His father died when Lee was 11. They had a very tough existence. Lee applied to West Point and was accepted when he was 17. The rest is history. There is no record of Robert E. Lee owning land or slaves. So what's the bitch?

Again, that he betrayed his country and fought to maintain slavery...

Oh, he had a very tough existence, the poor thing, living on a plantation.

Actually, the Mexican American war is a war we should be even more ashamed of than the Civil War. We were completely in the wrong on that one.[/

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

The union should have razed the entirety of the south.

And the South should have continued to fight an insurgency forever.

We can play this game all day long.

Lee was pardoned and reconciled with his nation. You can't rewrite that.

.

 

[sartre play]

Sorry, error on post #75,
What I want to say is that those statues are history and art. & never should be destroyed .

 

[BlindBoo]

Well, they couldn't, because the war would have gone guerrilla,

The war did go guerrilla. The insurgents won and by 1877 the Occupation ended and the former slave holders began to take rights away from the newly freed slaves. That's the era when most of the statues were erected.

 

[BlindBoo]

Sorry, error on post #75,
What I want to say is that those statues are history and art. & never should be destroyed .

I agree. Destruction of property is a crime.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

The victorious Union should have take all they wanted and left the traitors of the south with nothing.
To the victor goes the spoils.

Statue sold for $1.4 million. Why are we removing the in the first place because they owned slaves and that makes it racist today. What’s next all our money? George Washington owned 30 himself is he know a piece of shit? The Left gets offended by EVERYTHING in the past because they’re personally so inadequate in the present.

Um, not, it's being removed because he betrayed the country over slavery.

Time to stop honoring traitors. Take them all down.

Just like the Taliban, destroying art, trying to erase history. History haunts them, even if they try to mangle the history books.
History is history, the truth is the truth, deal with it.

Yes, history is history.

And there was nothing noble or honorable about Lee, which is why he should be expunged from any place of honor. .

If you knew American history, then you would know that Robert E Lee was a very honorable man. Liberalism twists people's minds into thinking that anti-American con men like Obama are honorable while great men from our history like Lee are not.

Lee was an honorable man, revered by all Americans at the time, North and South.

This movement to remove monuments to Lee, a man who was pardoned, and with whom our entire nation reconciled, along with the movement to remove all memorials to soldiers who did their duty in war, is an act of open hostility. It is revoking peace agreements.

The South paid the price for its rebellion. Southern states were reunited with northern states as equal members in the union, did they not?

Did the two sides reconcile or not?

To continue exacting punishment on the South and its history/heritage is openly revoking peace agreements.

It is an act of war.

.

That's pretty much what the carpetbaggers did.