It was installed in 1890 after Reconstruction had ended and when the Jim Crow era had started.
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Reminder. It wasn't erected to honor Lee, who did not want any war memorials. It was erected to remind the uppity blacks of their place.
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“Widely seen as”? No. Objectively a symbol of racism. There aren’t two sides to this.
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Glad it’s coming down. Robert E Lee fought a war for the right to own Black people. We shouldn’t be honoring him.
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So you think that "hero" is a fact, but the fact that he was a racist is just "widely seen?"
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“Civil War hero” is a funny way to describe someone who led an armed rebellion against the United States so that his fellow southerners could continue owning slaves.
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Southerners born there didn’t have any choice of where they were born or what was going on majority like today in government decisions. Unless you had enough money to own slaves and most didn’t. Don’t put in one basket. None of my ancestors did. Poor farmers
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Hero? Do better
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Robert E. Lee led a violent insurrection against US in order to perpetuate owning people (and their descendants) as slaves: while the
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You don't need to both sides the civil war. Jesus Christ
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