“Times they are a changing’” Robert E. Lee became an American when I was four years old on August 5th, 1975. Upon being made an American for a second time, through the restoration of the birthright he repudiated with treason ,105 years after his death, President Ford said this 👇
“ General Lee’s character has been an example to succeeding generations, making the restoration of his citizenship an event in which every American can take pride”. The removal of the Lee statue from Monument Blvd isn’t an erasure of history. It is a remembrance of it. We have
arrived at a settling of the record. When the cornerstone for the monument was laid Col. Charles Marshall, a Lee adjutant said Lee was a defender of the Constitution and the Union as it was before Lincoln destroyed it. He also spoke at the dedication of Grant’s monument in
NYC. He drafted Lee’s acceptance of unconditional surrender and was present at Appomattox. His nephew George would go on to be the one man whom FDR dared not address by his first name. General Marshall helped save the world, more than once. History is complicated. The American
story is a reality, not a myth. It should be faced head on. Reconciliation was paid for ultimately by black suffering. The North looked away and abandoned the overwhelming majority of black men and women (Freedmen) to a violent Southern Apartheid state that teemed with
Lawlessness, oppression and hatred. In 1910, the population of the United States stood at 92 million people. More than 90% of blacks lived in the South. The “Great Migration” north, of millions of Black Americans would last from 1915 to 1970. None of this was taught in school.
Black’s moving North collided with the greatest mass of immigrants in world history, mostly European, who arrived in the US largely between 1870 and 1920. This was the story taught in school. It was my family history but it was only a fraction of the American story. Oppression
was the meaning of the Lee Monument. Politeness dictated an exculpatory group think among whites who wanted to pretend that honor and dignity were the declaration being made by the 40 ft high marble Lee astride his faithful Traveller in the middle of the physical heart and
emotional soul of the fallen South. The telling of lies is always found in a societies monuments. When ignorance erodes any trace of memory it becomes possible to declare that history demands the lie be made sacred and indisputable. Yet history seems to be a relentless pursuer.
There it fell. In Richmond. In 2021, one of the last great monuments to injustice, slavery, treason, totalitarianism, oppression and violence that stood in America was toppled. Along with it came the shattering of the thin glass of the “Lost Cause Myth” that built the monument
to begin with. History’s judgements comes slowly. Yet, come they do.
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Hey @AirCanada my wife, who has Super Elite status, booked a direct flight, travelling with a dog. She got upgraded to Business in the front row…
Except it is against your policy to have a dog in the front row. There is another woman in the same situation. Two members of a family refused to move into the first row.
Your system would then not downgrade them to economy to get on the flight. They offered to get on the flight with boarding passes for the first row and then move back to economy seats, which were also available.
“What are the chances that Kevin McCarthy’s current supporters will become exhausted of voting for him as his vote count attrits ballot by ballot by ballot? Answer: extremely high.”
“How many of the 45 freshman Republican members are prepared to sit on the House floor waiting to be sworn in for days, weeks and months? Answer: not many.”
I understand the political point here but I think it’s time to take some extremists off the table forever politically. Trump is on the edge of indictment and charging uphill at DeSantis who may or may not be able to hold the top.
2/ The loony tunes in the Freedom Caucus know they won’t have the votes to elect Jim Jordan. They are just extorting @GOPLeader and his thug lobbyist @JeffMillerCA2TX who threatened the @USChamber and demanded the firing of CEO Suzanne Clark. They want concessions and control.
3/ @GOPLeader will give it to them and set up the conditions for more national vandalism. Kevin McCarthy is utterly unfit to hold a US Constitutional office and be in the line of immediate succession to the Presidency.
@JeffMillerCA2TX is the 2020’s version of Manafort, Davis, Stone and Abramoff in Washington DC. He is protected by the DC access media like a white rhino on an African game preserve. @politico was celebrating him on election eve. This is how it works. Immunity for tips.
2/ @JeffMillerCA2TX was one of Trump’s biggest bundlers and is @GOPLeader best friend. When @GOPLeader’s speaker campaign was collapsing on the eve of the @SpeakerRyan era I was asked to meet @GOPLeader in a Denver hotel to help save his faltering bid. It was too late.
3/ @GOPLeader had a congressional relations problem that couldn’t go away. @JeffMillerCA2TX is McCarthy’s lobbyist thug who routinely tells Members how to vote. It’s an open secret that would have been front page news ten years ago. Today, he’s in business with the people who
Why have you refused to endorse @MikeLeeforUtah. He is a colleague and fellow Republican?
The answer is:
@MittRomney is a man of principle. he knows Lee is unfit because Lee tried to overthrow the US Government. He will not support him. Good.
2/ How did @MittRomney arrive at his current position of neutrality between a seditious US Senator @MikeLeeforUtah and an American Hero and Patriot @EvanMcMullin?
How important is magic letter R to @MittRomney? Would he remain neutral if @HerschelWalker were the R Utah nominee?
3/ Assuming @MittRomney would not remain neutral in a contest between @EvanMcMullin and @HerschelWalker can Mitt explain the difference between Walker and Lee besides all of the abortions? What is it? Literacy? Can we know?
2/ Does Ohio want to elect a weirdo to be in the US Senate? It doesn’t
When a candidate like @JDVance1 is closing his campaign saying @TimRyan is going to steal the children and do sex changes on them it usually means the candidate like @JDVance1 is losing. JD=Fake Charity
3/ I wanted to personally vouch for @TimRyan who knows my kids. I just asked them if they are worried he is going to kidnap them and do sex change surgery on them like @JDVance1 said. They aren’t worried at all. They said @JDVance1 is a weirdo and asked if they would still call