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yardwork

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25. This lie isn't new. It was made up more than 100 years ago.

Reply to Takket (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2020, 09:42 AM

Jun 2020

This entire fantasy about the South was created at the turn of the last century by white supremacist groups. They're the people who put up the Confederate monuments all over the south, created Jim Crow laws that oppressed black people and kept them from voting, and wrote school curricula that are total fantasies about "happy slaves" and "kind owners." The author of Gone With the Wind perpetuated and popularized this myth, and it's perpetuated to this day.

It's a bunch of lies that millions of white people firmly believe are true.

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Latest RW lunatic.... Lee was anti-slavery, just wanted to represent Virginia [View all] Takket Jun 2020 OP

Lee owned slaves. marie999 Jun 2020 #1

Lee didnt own the Custis slaves gladium et scutum Jun 2020 #12

Then why did he go to court marie999 Jun 2020 #13

When Custid died gladium et scutum Jun 2020 #19

Okay, marie999 Jun 2020 #21

Pretty much the case. gladium et scutum Jun 2020 #22

Bullshit angstlessk Jun 2020 #2

People should post that she's right, Lee loved black people, LuvNewcastle Jun 2020 #3

Well, that's actually off of Twitter. GoCubsGo Jun 2020 #23

There's nothing "latest" about that argument JHB Jun 2020 #4

Harry Turtledove's "Guns of the South" Jeebo Jun 2020 #5

Why don't you ask him yourself. He's on twitter and hates right wing trolls. madinmaryland Jun 2020 #7

Let would never have freed slaves. He refused to free his own slaves. yardwork Jun 2020 #26

He 'wanted to represent Virginia', well sure that's appalachiablue Jun 2020 #6

I've always heard Light Horse Lee died of a lightning strike. You ever hear this? GulfCoast66 Jun 2020 #10

No I haven't heard that but he supposedly was appalachiablue Jun 2020 #14

Interesting. Ironically, I am a Custis descendant. At least the book I have shows it. GulfCoast66 Jun 2020 #15

A docent I worked with, a fmr NE college prof appalachiablue Jun 2020 #18

Virginia Had a Good Team in 1860-Had a Real Chance at the National Championship Stallion Jun 2020 #8

A good team in the Eastern Conference gladium et scutum Jun 2020 #20

There's a sprawling memorial in DC to Lee's achievements struggle4progress Jun 2020 #9

And the first page of VA's confederate constitution Captain Zero Jun 2020 #11

And the Confederate Constitution explicitly prohibited states from banning slavery. NYC Liberal Jun 2020 #16

I think BGBD Jun 2020 #17

So, he was against slavery, but he wanted to fight for a place that was GoCubsGo Jun 2020 #24

This lie isn't new. It was made up more than 100 years ago. yardwork Jun 2020 #25