RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 14, 2017 at 4:41 pm
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2017 at 4:43 pm by Cecelia.)
(August 14, 2017 at 3:53 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Oh I know. I wasn't saying he supported slavery, I know he didn't. I was just saying he was nonetheless very racist, yet we still have his statues up while we take down Lee's.
There's an inherent difference between celebrating a person despite their flaws (Abraham Lincoln) and celebrating a flawed figure for their flaws (Robert E. Lee).
One can easily distinguish between the likes of Lincoln (who wanted to preserve the union) and Lee (who fought to tear the union apart). Lee was NOT fighting for a just cause. And putting up statues to honor him for fighting an unjust cause is tantamount to suggesting that his cause was actually just. And that's exactly why these statues were erected in the first place. So that former confederates could feel just in their cause.
If the American Revolution had failed, I doubt very much that we'd have statues of George Washington anywhere. Washington would have most likely been hung.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
