I live in San Diego, CA, and write about politics and movies. Also, often, food, the moon, books, life. I support President Biden & VP Harris. W&L Class of 1998
Nov 15, 2021 • 23 tweets • 6 min read
Pillar of Washington Post Fact Checker May 14 hit piece on Rev. Robert W. Lee IV falls as Rev. Lee did not tell Tulsa World he was directly descended from Charles Carter Lee
A major hook of the @washingtonpost's May 14 piece on the ancestry of Rev. Robert Wright Lee IV,… (1/21)
…by Glenn Kessler @GlennKesslerWP, and posts by angry YouTuber Joe Ryan upon which it is based, is that once in 2020, the Reverend went to Tulsa and said he was a direct descendant of Charles Carter Lee, Robert E. Lee's elder brother.
This seems to be based on a… (2/21)
Aug 1, 2021 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Stratford Hall is not an independent source for May 14 WaPo piece on Rev. Robert W. Lee IV's heritage, could not endorse conclusions
An average reader of the @washingtonpost Fact Checker's May 14 article about Rev. Robert W. Lee IV's @roblee4 heritage could be forgiven… (1/17)
…for having the impression that @StratfordHall had endorsed its investigation and conclusions after reading the breathless last paragraph of its introduction. "But there is no evidence that Rob Lee, who was born in North Carolina, is related to Robert E. Lee, according…" (2/17)
Aug 19, 2020 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
After faculty and student government at my alma mater, Washington and Lee University, voted otherwise, and W&L launched a review, Prof. Lucas E. Morel wrote in the Richmond Times-Dispatch that Robert E. Lee should continue to be honored in the school name. richmond.com/opinion/column…
I wrote a response of the same length which the paper declined to publish, but the column was also reposted elsewhere and continues to lead Google News results for "Washington and Lee University," though his opinion seems somewhat of an outlier. So I decided to tweet my response:
Dec 4, 2019 • 100 tweets • 262 min read
CORRECTION: In my original posting of this thread I left out Oregon - Racist cartoon of slaveholders Washington and Lee with bone-white skin in front of Oregon scenery by Crater Lake images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53a…
The only beings besides white people or plants shown on all 57 delegation shirts for Washington and Lee University's Mock Convention are a donkey, an elephant, dogs, cattle, fish, an eagle, a pig, horses, a lobster, a buffalo and a silhouetted cowboy of indeterminate background.
