The irony here is that Lee Circle is about as diverse as anywhere in the south. Frequented by the wealthy and the college students from St. Charles St, poor blacks from surrounding neighborhoods, businessmen from the CBD, musicians, artists and gays from the French Quarter and countless tourists from all over the world and anybody catching or exiting a streetcar. The statue should be embraced and revered as a symbol of racial, ethnic and economic diversity. Isn't diversity what liberals are all about?
Again, you make no sense. It has been pointed out time and again....Lee was on record as having opposed slavery. He fought because he believed in his state's right to secede, and that the federal gov't was wrong to send troops into his state to force it to capitulate.
Actions speak louder than words. Fighting FOR slavery is not opposing slavery. And Lee's position on slavery is more nuanced than people like you understand.... he felt it was an immoral but he was against abolition. Doesn't change the matter of treason.
It appears a number of you might have learned your American history from the same place as Cheeto Snatchgrabber, who said this week about Andrew Jackson: “He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart. He was very angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War, he said, ‘There’s no reason for this.'” For the record, Andrew Jackson died in 1845. The Civil War started in 1861. If I TRIED to make Cheeto look more ridiculous I couldn't have come up with gems like his: "People don't ask that question, but why was there the Civil War?" LMAO.
