All this over a statue of a general that was an enemy of the United States. It's ridiculous that there are monuments to and even counties named after separatists that fought against the union.
Robert E. Lee was a massive FF. Without someone as honorable as him at the front of the Confederate army, we may have seen genocide, both of slaves in the South, captured prisoners of war, and free blacks and possibly whites in the North.
If Lee had chosen to lead the Union Army, as he was offered, rather than the other one, countless lives would have been saved, and the war ended much earlier. And he opposed slavery, and did it all supposedly for states rights. Sad. Lee had many estimable qualities, but I cannot forgive him for what he did, and he deserves no honor in my book.
