Once again, the
Democrats are trying to erase history where no controversy existed, expect in
the annals of political correctness. The City of Dallas City Council voted 13-1
to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee, with a Confederate soldier, at Lee Park,
which is in the Turtle Creek neighborhood. By luck, a judge issued a stay on
its removal as crews were preparing to remove it. Actually, if the stay would
have come thirty minutes later, the statue probably would have already loaded
on the flatbed.
One of the councilman who voted for this
flagrant disregard of history states.
"We do not need a task force to tell
us right from wrong," councilmember Philip Kingston told Fox 4 News.
"These monuments represent a false telling of history."
What false telling
of history is he referring to? Perhaps he thinks the statue represents the
South won the war? Maybe he believes all those “deplorables” that voted for
Trump are going to let the South rise again? Or maybe it’s that Lee stands for
oppression? On all three counts, he would be seriously wrong. He, like many of
the rabid anti-fa activists and their supporters need to bone up on history,
and fast! One: the South didn’t win the war. Two: Better check out the
Electoral College Voting and the popular vote when it comes to states like
Pennsylvania and Ohio. Yeah, those are Yankee states. Three, the last thing
Robert E. Lee stands for is oppression and the Civil War. He did not want the
war and hoped Jefferson Davis and others would come to an amicable agreement to
avoid the bloodshed he knew would come.
When the die was
cast and succession became a reality, he was torn between a country he loved
and defended, and his home state of Virginia. He could not see himself warring
against his own statesmen and friends. He, like many, that were officers in the
United States Army had to make a choice and they chose to honor and serve with
their fellow brothers. They were driven by a sense of duty and honor that is
seriously lacking today.
General Lee was
highly regarded as a great tactician and gentlemen, before, during and after
the Civil War, even by his Northern brothers. He was asked countless times for
his opinions on how the North was governing after the capitulation. In his letters,
he showed he wasn’t pleased but that it was the duty of the defeated to weather
the storm and unite the country. At any time, he could have spoken out against
Lincoln, Johnson and Grant. He wouldn’t do it. The country had bled enough and
it was time to reconcile, rebuild and heal.
The irony I find
in today’s debate is that Lee was a traitor and committed treason against the
United States, thus, all his statues should come down. Okay. But before you
jump on that bandwagon, you better hold “Hanoi Jane” Fonda to the same
standard. Like Lee, she aided and abetted the enemy during the Vietnam War. Yet
I hear no outcry from the left. Why? Because it would subvert their narrative
on righteousness. The same goes for the thugs that support anti-fa. They are no
better than the Brown Shirts of the 30’s. They have been given a license to destroy
and attack those they don’t agree with. And yet the press praises them as
liberators and activists for a just cause. What cause? The undermining of the
United States government? Exactly. Why aren’t they being rounded up and
imprisoned? Again, it would defeat the current narrative of the press and the
left and that can’t happen.
If Lee would have
kept up the good fight and spoken out against the victors, our country could
have endured a guerilla war that could have lasted decades. Instead, he took
the high road and remined his followers that they had fought a good fight, but
it was time to lay down arms and begin working on the peace. Resistance would
only prolong the inevitable and achieve nothing more than more destroyed
property and lives.
Lee never wrote a
biography despite receiving many offers to do so. The closest we have for
historical analysis is the book his son, General Robert Edward Lee, published.
It provides an excellent insight into this great man and his love for his
fellow man; a lesson we can all learn from, it we take the time.
So, if you want to
eradicate him from the history books and vilify him, that’s your choice, but in
the end, the only action being perpetuated is the smearing of great American
patriot.
