So who are the peeple pulling down historical figures now?
The girl guides?
Or right wing terrorists in disguise possibly?
Ah, the monuments that commemorate racial inequality and glorify those who fought to defend a way of life that included slavery and the subjugation of others? I'm guessing you think these should be preserved?
General Lee's own thoughts on confederate monuments: Lee opposed the erection of Confederate monuments, symbols he said would keep division alive.
Lee’s letters said that while he would be grateful for such a gesture, these symbols would slow the country instead of “accelerating its accomplishment; & of continuing, if not adding to, the difficulties under which the Southern people labour.”
One of the greatest generals of the southern forces had more common sense to see the issues it would create to erect monuments than apparently anyone who followed. Too bad those who considered raising the monuments had not been true to the vision of a man they so highly regarded.
When were most monuments erected? During the introduction of Jim Crow Laws, and then again during the Civil Right's Movements of the 1960's. The agenda is so obvious, but the rhetoric around it is skewed to create a fiction that it is based on something else other than opposing racial equality and acceptance of rights.
Did you know that the it wasn't until 1956 that Georgia redesigned its state flag to include the Confederate battle flag; and in 1962, South Carolina placed the flag atop its capitol building?
Lee's comments are quoted from his historically published letters, and the evidence of when monuments were erected is easy to find. Do you own research if you believe you can discredit what I've written.
Who cares who tears them down, what does it matter?