Lee descendant urges official removal of Confederate statues
Source: ABC News
A descendant of Confederate military commander Robert E. Lee was among those joining Black historians at a hearing of the House subcommittee on national parks, forests and public lands to urge passage of legislation addressing Confederate statues at national parks and other federal sites. One of the bills would remove a statue of Lee erected this century at the battlefield of Antietam, the site of the deadliest day of fighting in the Civil War.
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The Rev. Robert W. Lee IV, a descendant of the South’s military leader in the Civil War, cited his forebear’s testimony before Congress after the Civil War as evidence of the Confederate leader's unfitness for commemorative monuments.
In 1866, the Confederate leader urged lawmakers not to allow Black suffrage. Black people of the time, the general testified before Congress, “cannot vote intelligently” and it would “lead to embarrassments.”
“We cannot remain silent anymore,” Robert W. Lee testified Tuesday. “If we do so, our silence becomes agreement and endorsement to complicity.”
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Fort Colin Powell has a nice ring. 
