re: LSU'S Tate on building renaming: "I would never have formed that committee"

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There are a lot of things that need to be done concerning systemic racism, but renaming buildings and removing statues should be so low on that list.

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Baloney! There have been a lot of statues removed and buildings renamed that should not have been. THAT is true. But we SHOULD remove the statues of people, like Robert E Lee, who, given the choice - and he was - chose to fight FOR slavery. Save the states rights shite. That's not what the civil war was about. Everyone at the time knew it was about making money off the labor of slaves.

I do not think Robert E Lee was a bad man. It's just that he does not deserve to be singled out for honor, and doing so is a humiliating slap in the face to the descendants of the slaves Lee fought to keep in chains.