Leftists Purging History or Al Queda in America

[Brian37]

Does Robert E. Lee's opinion count at all in any of this nazi/racist bullshit spectacle?

http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/saxon/serv....09.03.xml

Dear Sir--Absence from Lexington has prevented my receiving until to-day your letter of the 26th ult., inclosing an invitation from the Gettysburg Battle-field Memorial Association, to attend a meeting of the officers engaged in that battle at Gettysburg, for the purpose of marking upon the ground by enduring memorials of granite the positions and movements of the armies on the field. My engagements will not permit me to be present. I believe if there, I could not add anything material to the information existing on the subject. I think it wiser, moreover, not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered. Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
R. E. Lee.

Lee had a shitload more class than our modern nazi fuckheads.

Unfortunately the right will still take that as, "Look he admitted his flaws so that is a reason to keep the statues up>"

UM NO, just the opposite. You wont find Germany or Japan keeping their history of fascist symbols up.

I think the right forgets that forgiving does not equal condoning. The statues put up after the war were not done to teach history, they were put up to glorify the side that wanted to keep a horrible institution, and even Lee, like Germany and Japan admitted the healing begins when you admit you were wrong.

Slavery was that "Mark of civil strife". 

I graduated from a High School named after Lee, I want that named changed too. I would still want the Civil War taught in history classes but not glorified in those history classes.