Bye Robert Lee, bye!!!

@shavixmir

PS

It is well to remember that slavery was not the invention of the USA. It was a European sin. Columbus landed on Hispaniola in 1492. Within 150 years, the entire native population of the island had been exterminated and replaced by African slaves. That pattern was repeated elsewhere, throughout the Americas, with some native populations reduced by as much as 95%. Spain and other European colonizing nations did not view the Americas (or Africa, for that matter) as someone else's legitimate property; they viewed Africa and the Americas as raw materials to be ruthlessly exploited. Europe's original sin in the Americas was not slavery; it was genocide. The slavery came later. I can well understand why statues of Columbus are being torn down. In terms of historical reparations, I'd say Spain has more to answer for than Robt. E. Lee.

@averagejoe1 said
George Floyd was a serious child abuser and a criminal. Sick idea. And stupid that he would argue with a cop. Who argues with a cop? The blacks will NOT become better if they are gazing at a Floyd statue.

@moonbus said
@shavixmir

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It is well to remember that slavery was not the invention of the USA. It was a European sin. Columbus landed on Hispaniola in 1492. Within 150 years, the entire native population of the island had been exterminated and replaced by African slaves. That pattern was repeated elsewhere, throughout the Americas, with some native populations reduced by as much ...[text shortened]... rn down. In terms of historical reparations, I'd say Spain has more to answer for than Robt. E. Lee.

@Rajk999

Funny how some black people in the US embrace Islam as an African alternative to Christianity when it was the African Muslims who sold their ancestors to the Europeans.

@eladar said
RE Lee is not a Civil War hero for people in Virginia? What state did R.E. Lee fight for in the Civil War?

How uneducated can you be?

@no1marauder said
People in Virginia should realize by now that Robert E Lee was a traitor who fought against their country for the purpose of extending the great evil of slavery.

@eladar said
That is what a Northerner would say.

@no1marauder said
That is what history says.

@eladar said
To the victor goes the spoils, which is why there should be no monument to Crazy Horse.

@no1marauder said
No, it is the truth and you know it. Southern apologists have tried to change the history with their "Lost Cause" BS but as I have shown many times on this Forum the facts are the facts.

A Crazy Horse monument on the land he tried to defend from invaders seems appropriate to me. It's being built on privately owned land by a non-profit organization which does not accept government funds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Horse_Memorial

@eladar said
There are those who view RE Lee as you view Crazy Horse. Their opinions are as valid as yours. You need to get over yourself. You are not that important.

@no1marauder said
No, opinions based on lies are not as valid as opinions based on the truth.

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