Lee Happy Birthday Robert E. Lee

[Barrycdog]

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[nitrofd]

It's my granddaughters birthday also.her nickname is Bobby lee.

 

[donna]

Happy Birthday to General Lee.

 

[MRB1863]

Here's a salute on your birthday, general!
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[Rio Bravo]

Happy Birthday General - You Contributed Magnificently to the Confederate Cause !

 

[judi]

Happy Birthday General Lee

 

[truthckr]

Happy Birthday Gen Lee! It's easy to judge a man's choices 150+ years after he made them. We may not agree with his choices or his politics, but he was still a great man and leader during a time when holding men in bondage, against their will, was considered normal.

 

[W. Richardson]

Happy Birthday to a true gentleman, a great general and an honorable man, may you forever rest in peace.


Respectfully,

William

 

[Gandycreek]

 

[bankerpapaw]

Happy Birthday, General Lee.

 

[CMWinkler]

 

[Barrycdog]

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[Delhi Rangers]

Happy Birthday Marse Robert. Rest in Peace.
DEO VINDICE

 

[unionblue]

Arkansas Bill Would Remove Robert E. Lee From MLK Day.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/arkansas-bill-remove-robert-lee-mlk-day-28383471

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[W. Richardson]

Arkansas Bill Would Remove Robert E. Lee From MLK Day.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/arkansas-bill-remove-robert-lee-mlk-day-28383471

Unionblue

Strange thing is this year REL birthday actually fell on Monday ! The day they also honored MLK, who's birthday is on the 15th. Both REL and MLK were honorable men and I honored them both. I don't see any issue with honoring both men on the same day. Time to move on, Time to be tolerant and IMHO if one can't then racism will never die.

It was an informative and interesting article.

Respectfully,

William

 

[cash]

Here is one southerner's view of Lee and Lee Day:


The shame of Robert E. Lee/MLK Day in Arkansas
by Kaya Herron
February 11, 2015

This morning, I was a student ambassador for Philander Smith College and the Social Justice Institute at a House Committee that discussed Rep. Nate Bell's proposal to divide the Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Overall my experience was eye opening and suspicion confirming. Arkansas is still very much so racially divided. Southern white men are proud of their confederate heritage and can't be persuaded to see past their arrogance and "ancestry" in order to separately honor men regarded as American heroes, on separate days, to afford equal celebration and ease racial tension.

As a black woman, a genetic descendant of Africans, born in the United States of America, afforded equal protection under the law, I see no redeeming qualities in Robert E. Lee. My history books taught me that he was a secessionist and a racist. He waged a war that led to the deaths of thousands of men, he opposed giving free slaves the right to vote and he argued that the brutal institution of American slavery was better for blacks than was living in Africa and that their bondage was necessary for their deliverance. He fought for white male autonomy, the oppression of blacks, secession from the union and ****. So no, he is not an American hero in my eyes.

Read more at: http://m.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/02/11/the-shame-of-robert-e-lee-mlk-day-in-Arkansas