Frisco Lou
Aug 26, 2017 · 3 min read

You haven’t revealed any sources of information, no matter what the source is Margaret Sanger was and is resented by African Americans for her advocacy of eugenics and the Smithsonian refused to remove her bust over the demands of black preachers.

I don’t know any historian who believes that Longstreet was smarter than Lee or that the south had a military path to victory. There were only a hand full of generals as competent as Lee and they were killed early in the war. Albert Sydney Johnson was killed in 1862 at Shiloh and before Thomas Jackson died 1863 Lee told him, “You may have lost your left arm but I have lost my right”. The statue of Longstreet is at Gettysburg where it belongs. James Longstreet became Lee’s most reliable general by attrition. Longstreet’s signature moment came at Chickamauga with his dramatic last minute arrival from Virgina, snatching victory from the jaws of defeat.

There’s more to the removal of Confederate statues than “patriotism” or “treason”, most of those Confederates were pardoned and all their rights restored in the 19th century and now unqualified people are trying to take them away in the 21st century? If Liberals were serious about removing offensive statues from public places then they should remove Sanger’s bust from the Smithsonian. And if you want to get rid of Civil War Generals who did bad things, then could I suggest Phil Sheridan, he has a statue in many public places including NYC and Washington DC. I know, I know, he was all over the place during the Civil War and he was present during Lee’s surrender at Appomatox and eventually became a 4 star general, it’s not for anything he did during the Civil War, it’s for what he did after the war. Sheridan became one of the top generals during the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans. His command was responsible for subduing and committing atrocities from the Plains Indians down to the Apaches. Even though he denies saying it, Sheridan is credited to the quote, “The only good Indian is a dead Indian”. When poachers were illegally poaching buffalo on Indian land, Sheridan made no attempt to stop it saying, “Let them kill, skin and sell until the buffalo is exterminated”. “When the Texas legislature considered outlawing bison poaching on tribal lands, Sheridan personally testified against it, suggesting that the legislature should give each of the hunters a medal, engraved with a dead buffalo on one side and a discouraged-looking Indian on the other”. Sheridan was a colorful fellow, he once said, “If I owned Hell and if I owned Texas, I’d rent out Texas and live in Hell”.

If the Left was serious about removing statues of moral degenerates, they’d call for the removal Sanger and Sheridan but they don’t because both are their degenerates. What gives them the right to decide who’s morally worthy of public recognition?

Just one more point, both my father and my grandfather are buried at Lee’s old house at Arlington. During WW II my father went to high school in Charlottesville while my granfather worked at the Pentagon, both of them were very patriotic and were not hostile or judgemental toward Lee.

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