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Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC 4m
Robert E. Lees last ride through streets of Charlottesville, this morning:
♫"Na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na" ♫♫
Aristus
(66,316 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)Nictuku
(3,605 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)edhopper
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Dump him and keep the horse.
Sneederbunk
(14,289 posts)edhopper
(33,567 posts)And you can't prove otherwise now.
Sneederbunk
(14,289 posts)edhopper
(33,567 posts)bigtree
(85,986 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)Javaman
(62,517 posts)Shermann
(7,412 posts)Might be a bit chilly.
Javaman
(62,517 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Where he wanted to be. (I'm descended from his sister or so I'm told.)
Brother Buzz
(36,416 posts)Curious, no?
bigtree
(85,986 posts)Ku Klux Klan marched in Binghamton, New York, during same era that Charlottesville, Virginia, unveiled its new Robert E. Lee statue:
...in fact:
crickets
(25,962 posts)Botany
(70,489 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 10, 2021, 04:20 PM - Edit history (1)
"Virgil, quick, come see,
There goes Robert E. Lee!"
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"
******
Melt the fucker down. The war was over 156 years ago and Lee fought for the right to own human
beings as slaves and for the end of the United States of America. When a slave ran away from his
farm Lee had the man horse whipped and then had salt water poured over his wounds.
jmowreader
(50,553 posts)They should put it in an alcove at a museum, and the walls of the alcove should be covered with descriptions of just how bad he was.
Ruby Zee
(170 posts)Shermann
(7,412 posts)This is coming from the University of Virginia in regards to their school of art funder Paul Goodloe McIntire, who commissioned this statue.
https://art.as.virginia.edu/history-paul-goodloe-mcintire
If they can be honest about it, anybody can (and should).
bigtree
(85,986 posts)...this statue part of some rich prat's attempt in the early 20's to institutionalize his alternative history, not unlike the white supremacist movements today and their crafting of revisionist history.
A contemporary colonialist theme park...
Mysterian
(4,585 posts)If more men like you had rejected treason, you could have helped your country, rather than plunge it into a bloddy war.
Talitha
(6,581 posts)hunter
(38,310 posts)Smashing the face of that sculpture into a concrete beam or steel girder would much improve it.
johnp3907
(3,730 posts)Virgil, quick come see! There goes Robert E. Lee!
Takket
(21,558 posts)Polybius
(15,381 posts)There had to be at least one Trumper who did.