The memorials aggrandizing Lee are a personal issue for me. I'm a Lee.

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3. We do.

I also make donations to women's rights organizations, in particular. Bail out Black Mamas, and Rolling Jubilee are two that get our money. Rolling Jubilee, because health care is especially stratified, and I landed in the hospital uninsured with bleeding ulcers, and lived the nightmare of dealing with collection agencies for the following 5 years.

My father argues that because the few generations before his parents were rather poor, that we lifted ourselves out of poverty....

Ignoring white privilege, of course. Our ancestors gave us not only white skin, but the inertia to get through difficult economic times - a network of other white, educated people as a support, etc.

I am a member of a few organizations of descendents of famous/white Americans (Page Nelson Society, DAR, etc) and joined them with the specific goal of directing energy and resources to repair the damage done.