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re: Anyone Else Purchasing a Robert E. Lee Concrete Statue
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:36 pm to Ace Midnight
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:36 pm to Ace Midnight
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Lee didn't actually own any slaves. They were his wife's inheritance.
Yeah...that's not true.
He owned them and then reluctantly freed them later on.
For the record. I have no problem with him owning the slaves. It's what it is. Just don't try to cover it up.
This post was edited on 4/23/18 at 7:37 pm
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Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:36 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:37 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Would love for that to be a plinking target. Confederate trash.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:39 pm to ellishughtiger
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I’m glad to see that Lee married up
Arlington was a small place. Lee's father was one of George Washington's (you know, the Father of the fricking Country) top commanders and he married Washington's step great-granddaughter.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:40 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
I went a step further.
I have an entire back tattoo of Robert E Lee
I have an entire back tattoo of Robert E Lee
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:43 pm to PhilipMarlowe
I always find it funny when a bunch of neckbeards talk shite about a guy that has been hailed by multiple presidents as a man of supreme talent and character. You don't have to be a backwoods sisterfricker to recognize he was a good man
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:43 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
If I lived next door to Mitch I would purchase 100 of these and line my entire driveway and mount them on the fence separating our yards.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:45 pm to JackieTreehorn
Fun fact: Mitch deep down doesn’t give two fricks about the confederacy or it’s emblems. He used the statues as a political wedge
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:45 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
I bought one for my friends daughter's Quinceanera.
I called and asked if I could put it on layaway. The guy on the phone asked if I was black. I told him "No, I just enjoy saving up for things"
I called and asked if I could put it on layaway. The guy on the phone asked if I was black. I told him "No, I just enjoy saving up for things"
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:45 pm to fightin tigers
quote:
Yeah...that's not true.
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.
quote:
For the record. I have no problem with him owning the slaves.
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.
quote:
Just don't try to cover it up.
Nobody is covering up anything.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:50 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Meh. Let me know when someone starts selling copies of the removed P.T. Beauregard statue. That was gorgeous.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:52 pm to Ace Midnight
I'm not a statue person but I have an etching of The Last Meeting by Julio in my home office. When I was a senior in college the original (which in the frame is about 20 feet high) was in my college's admissions building for a few months. It is now in the Museum of the Confederacy.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:53 pm to Ace Midnight
Sounds like the same kind of marriages that happen uptown Nola between the society folks.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:53 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Mitch is probably tied up in this making some money.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:54 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
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Anyone Else Purchasing a Robert E. Lee Concrete Statue
People need to let it go!
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:56 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
I'm on the pro monument side of this whole BS situation, but getting a mini one for your yard is moronic.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 7:58 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
A lot of outraged baws won’t honor history in their yards
Posted on 4/23/18 at 8:00 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
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I bought two.
lol
Posted on 4/23/18 at 8:00 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
This would clash with my lawn jockey.
Posted on 4/23/18 at 8:01 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
I'm getting one just to offend people.
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