Robert E. Lee statue removed from US Capitol

[Charlemagne]

Robert E. Lee statue removed from US Capitol

A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed from the U.S. Capitol overnight. The statue has stood with America’s first president, George Washington, as the state of Virginia&#…

thehill.com

 

[jerimander]

Why don't they remove the slave-owning George Washington? Or Thomas Jefferson? And let's not forget Alexander Hamilton, the subject of the libtard musical. Just about all the large landowners who signed the Constitution owned slaves.

 

[oil&gas]

I have nothing against it if the monuments of General Sherman are
going to be removed as well. Sherman easily destroyed more lives
than Lee.

 

[Knuckle Ball]

Why don't they remove the slave-owning George Washington? Or Thomas Jefferson? And let's not forget Alexander Hamilton, the subject of the libtard musical. Just about all the large landowners who signed the Constitution owned slaves.

Do you need a tissue?

 

[oil&gas]

Why don't they remove the slave-owning George Washington? Or Thomas Jefferson? And let's not forget Alexander Hamilton, the subject of the libtard musical. Just about all the large landowners who signed the Constitution owned slaves.

Jefferson freed two out of 600 slaves he owned and
traded in his lifetime. By the standard of his time he could
have been more evil. Washington was a better human being
than Jefferson. I've read that he compensated his slaves whose
tooth he knocked off for his own tooth implants.

 

[jerimander]

Jefferson freed two out of 600 slaves he owned and
traded in his lifetime. By the standard of his time he could
have been more evil. Washington was a better human being
than Jefferson. I've read that he compensated his slaves whose
tooth he knocked off for his own tooth implants.

He would have organ-harvested them but the state of medicine at that time didn't allow it.

 

[oil&gas]

Maybe Lee's rebellion can be excused for the same reasons the
slave-owning Texan revolutionaries fighting their abolitionist Mexican
rulers are deemed heroes in American history.

 

[fall]

General Robert Lee and his rebel generals launched a civil war that resulted in the death of 620,000. You putting him on the same level as George Washington who led the army that gained independence from the British. Stupid does not do justice to your analogy.

Leading the army that gained independence from the British is rebellion from the Britain point of view . Winners always right, losers always wrong...

 

[jerimander]

What about from your point of view? Did Britain have the right to rule over the United States, India, South Africa and all the other colonies?

India and South Africa probably not. The Americans were predominantly of British descent and were actually more prosperous than the British in Britain, so British rule over the US was not unjust. The Canadian colonists never rebelled.