The FDR speech in 1936 at the unveiling of the magnificent Robert E Lee memorial statue.

[Mac-7]

Segregation and housing discrimination didn't end 155 years ago.

Thats true

But government has done everything it can about that through legislation

Now its up to black people to earn the respect that will change public opinion

 

[Curried Goats]

Thats true

But government has done everything it can about that through legislation

Now its up to black people to earn the respect that will change public opinion

Has it done everything it can? According to who?

 

[busybee01]

I have major issues with FDR, but he was honest and forthright in this memorial speech praising Robert E Lee as a great man and a great American. What has happened to today's Democrats?

Remarks at the Unveiling of the Robert E. Lee Memorial Statue, Dallas, Texas. | The American Presidency Project

www.presidency.ucsb.edu

It is time to move on. The Confederacy is dead. People carrying stupid confederate flags are just plain stupid.

 

[MarathonMike]

It is time to move on. The Confederacy is dead. People carrying stupid confederate flags are just plain stupid.

Our history is our history. If you ignore FDR's important speech at the Robert E Lee Memorial, then you are playing into Democrat revisionist history. Robert E Lee was a great man thrust into a terrible position. He had the respect of both sides during and after the war. But now with rabid Liberals at work, everything is being distorted for political reasons.

 

[Mac-7]

Has it done everything it can? According to who?

Everything it should do and then some

 

[Curried Goats]

Everything it should do and then some

According to who?

 

[Mac-7]

According to who?

Me and at least 75 million others

 

[Chillicothe]

Robert E Lee was a great man thrust into a terrible position. He had the respect of both sides during and after the war.

Lee was likely a good man in many respects. Widely admired for his performance in the Mexican War....his career star rapidly rose.
But, as the Confederacy's most successful general.....he was their most effective hammer for the continued bondage of humans.

From 'Encyclopedia Virginia':

" During both the Maryland (1862) and Gettysburg (1863) campaigns, Lee’s officers kidnapped free Blacks and sold them into slavery. By 1865, Lee supported the enlistment of African Americans into the Confederate army, but he surrendered before a plan could be implemented. After the war, he generally opposed racial and political equality for African Americans."

In my opinion, R.E.Lee does not deserve to be 'hero-ized' by statuary on public ground. These removals are long overdue.
If some bloke wants to put a statue of him on private land without any public tax monies whatsoever...... so be it.

 

[Curried Goats]

Me and at least 75 million others

Great. Now that we've established that this is your opinion, in your opinion what was enough to alleviate the near 10 to 1 wealth gap that exists between average white families and average black ones, caused in large part by the discrimination and segregation in housing policy?

 

[MarathonMike]

Lee was likely a good man in many respects. Widely admired for his performance in the Mexican War....his career star rapidly rose.
But, as the Confederacy's most successful general.....he was their most effective hammer for the continued bondage of humans.

From 'Encyclopedia Virginia':

" During both the Maryland (1862) and Gettysburg (1863) campaigns, Lee’s officers kidnapped free Blacks and sold them into slavery. By 1865, Lee supported the enlistment of African Americans into the Confederate army, but he surrendered before a plan could be implemented. After the war, he generally opposed racial and political equality for African Americans."

In my opinion, R.E.Lee does not deserve to be 'hero-ized' by statuary on public ground. These removals are long overdue.
If some bloke wants to put a statue of him on private land without any public tax monies whatsoever...... so be it.

Like all Liberals, you are viewing him with the skewed optics of today's politics. The whole point of my thread was to illustrate how time and politics distorts the truth.

 

[Mac-7]

Great. Now that we've established that this is your opinion, in your opinion what was enough to alleviate the near 10 to 1 wealth gap that exists between average white families and average black ones, caused in large part by the discrimination and segregation in housing policy?

Establish race neutral laws and let the chips fall where they may