re: Charlottesville unanimously votes to remove Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson statues

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No.
But if you ever actually take time to read what he did say and feel, you'll want him cancelled as well.
His statues will need to come down too.

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No . I took time & read what he actually DID and I don't care about staues to mere public servants like Lincoln.

1) Lincolns first Bill as a young Congressman was to abolish slavery in D.C. ( failed).
2) wrote a scathing rebuke/outraged at the Dred Scott Decision

3) Outraged at the Kansas - Nebraska act. Coaxed a severely depressed Lincoln back into politics.

4) Ran as 1st Presidential candidate in the anti slavery party( GOP)

5) Accepted 200,000 Black volunteer soldiers ( 26 Medals of Honor in less than 2 years )to help fight against/ slaughter his fellow White Southerners.

6) Signed Emancipation Proclamation

7) Pushed for Black Voting rights in his final speech ( 100 years before the voting Rights Act).

8) Fought for & signed the 13th Amendment


Lincoln was the same as the Confederates. I believe several others could have been just as good or much better/ decisive Presidents than Lincoln, but..... many times in 2 party politics.