re: Anyone Else Purchasing a Robert E. Lee Concrete Statue

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Yeah...that's not true.

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It's absolutely true. The Lee family wasn't destitute, but they weren't wealthy barons, either. Robert E. Lee neither owned nor inherited any slaves during his lifetime. If anything, those slaves were deemed dower slaves of his wife, but even then, his father-in-law, George Washington Parke Custis (the step grandson of George fricking Washington), freed his slaves in his will, upon his death in 1857 - and Lee as administrator of the will manumitted those slaves in accordance with those instructions.

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For the record. I have no problem with him owning the slaves.

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That's hypothetical, because not only did Lee not own slaves, he wasn't particularly crazy about the institution, nor was his wife (whose family actually owned the slaves). This was the Virginia tradition and they were deeply, deeply conflicted about the whole affair.

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Just don't try to cover it up.

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Nobody is covering up anything.