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  1. Poignant note from one of my favorite historians, about an event 161 years ago

    "On April 8, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant was having a hard night.

    His army had been harrying Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s for days, and Grant knew it was only a question of time before Lee had to surrender. The people in the Virginia countryside were starving, and Lee’s army was melting away."

    heathercoxrichardson.substack.

    #civilwar #robertelee #ulyssesgrant #appomattox

  2. @RememberUsAlways #MLK combined with #RobertELee Day? Sadly this is all you need to know about parts of the US South. 😔

  3. #RobertELee

    important to the "lost cause" narrative, romanticizing the #Confederacy

    blah blah blah... he was a #traitor to the #USA and fought for #slavery, and is only valued by #racists

    even with #MAGA and #Trump fighting it, we still remove statues trying to honor these turds

    on Tuesday, a statue of #Virginia #civilRights #activist #BarbaraRoseJohns replaced that of Robert E Lee in the #USCapitol

    as a teenager in 1951 she led a student strike for equal #education

    nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/us-cap

  4. Defense chief Pete Hegseth is reinstating a large painting of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee—shown in uniform and with a slave—at West Point, reversing recent efforts to remove Confederate imagery from military institutions. Originally installed in 1952 during the Jim Crow era to rehabilitate Lee’s image, the painting’s return comes after Congress had ordered removal of such symbols in 2020. The move is sparking debate over history, race, and which legacies should be honored at America’s storied military academy. Read more: thedailybeast.com/defense-secr
    #WestPoint #RobertELee #Confederacy #history #military #Hegseth

  5. In 1909, H. P. Lovecraft had three letters to the editor published in the local newspaper which have never been republished. This week, a teenaged Lovecraft weighs in on Robert E. Lee, the American Civil War, and THE CLANSMAN on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein.

    deepcuts.blog/2024/11/27/deepe

    #Lovecraft #hplovecraft #civilwar #robertelee #history #americanhistory #confederacy #CSA #racism

  6. I see Arlington National cemetery is in the news bc a certain walking tanning bed was being a prick. What else is new?

    It's worth noting how it became government property. 👇🏿

    There's a reason the right doesn't say "give me the good 'ole days of 1861", cuz there was a time this country stood ten toes deep on expropriation without compensation of at least one prominent slavers riches.

    Alas reconstitution was never completed.

    #RobertELee #arlington #ArlingtonNationalCemetary #VA #Reconstruction

  7. A #Virginia #school board voted to restore the names of 2 schools previously named after #Confederate leaders at a meeting that began Thurs evening & stretched into the early hours of Friday.
    
The #ShenandoahCounty #SchoolBoard voted 5-1 to call the schools #StonewallJackson HS & #AshbyLee #ElementarySchool, 4 yrs after the board — under different members — changed the names of the institutions due to their ties to Confederate ldrs Stonewall Jackson, #RobertELee & #TurnerAshby.

    #WhiteSupremacy

  8. CW: Elon Musk race-war rhetoric

    "They absolutely want your extinction."
    Today, Elon Musk wildly increased his race-war rhetoric and promotion of white nationalism in a reply to a complaint by a white supremacist about the melting down of the Charlottesville Robert E Lee statue.
    #robertelee #whitenationalism #elonmusk #hate

  9. It was a choice to melt down #RobertELee. But it would have been a choice to keep him intact, too.

    The statue of the #Confederate general that once stood in #Charlottesville — that prompted the deadly 2017 “#UniteTheRight” rally — was cut into fragments & dropped into a furnace…

    Melted down in secret, the divisive monument will be turned into a new piece of public art.

    #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #NeoNazis
    washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/in