Families of Robert E. Lee and enslaved people unite to tell a more inclusive history together

For the first time in three years, visitors can return inside Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, atop Arlington National Cemetery. The National Park Service recently completed a three-year overhaul of the national memorial that united the descendants of General Robert E. Lee and enslaved people who once lived and labored on the plantation. Only on “CBS This Morning,” Jericka Duncan was there when they met up for the first time in person.
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[@petermorhead4160]

The Custis Lee Mansion (Arlington House) was not Robert E. Lee's family home. It was the ancestral home of General Lee's wife. Mrs. Lee was the granddaughter of Martha Custis Washington, George Washington's wife.

[@calguy3838]

Great granddaughter, actually. The mansion was built by her father, George Washington Parke Custis, who was Martha Washington's grandson, and who was raised at Mount Vernon by Martha and George Washington.

[@reallydarlings-se2xf]

You are spot on. GWPC built Arlington and Lee spent relatively little time there due to his commitments as a US Army engineer.

[@ginj5375]

Moved there when he was 3 years old.

[@Jorde-u4u]

Same 💩 different eras. Corruption then and corruption now.

[@sandraatkins2539]

Robert E. Lee also has Black, direct descendants in Virginia. My biology teacher was Caucasian, and she told us that two of our Black classmates were her cousins because of their direct, blood relationship to Lee. The two young ladies are still alive.

[@jamesmacroll9838]

Same here on my dad's side he's from west Virginia as well took the 23 n me and bamn he popped up

[@mikelee9883]

Hello, would be interesting to talk. Robert was my 4x great uncle. His brother Sidney was my grandfather. I’ve been doing a family history and trying to gather as much information as I can.

[@Ranwolfe]

I don't believe this hogwash

[@mikegreen1095]

Robert e lee was an idol growing up. Civil war was not his intention for America

[@oyaami1874]

I wonder if they would be sitting there laughing and smiling if their relative ran a concentration camp. That is what plantations were, large concentration camps where people were worked, beaten and tortured.

[@realbeautyness25]

No that would be disrespectful to the Holocaust survivors

[@lydiarayas1035]

@@realbeautyness25 Plantations by definition were concentration camps...

[@morbidlyoppressed9038]

I’m glad the republicans freed the slaves

[@realbeautyness25]

@@morbidlyoppressed9038 I BE GLAD WHEN THE REPUBLICANS PUSH REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY JIM CROW PEONAGE REMEMBER WE NEVER GOT THAT 40ACRES AND A MULE THING

[@morbidlyoppressed9038]

@@realbeautyness25 couldn’t pay the taxes for them if you did

[@paskowitz]

You can take a statue, that looks over people whether they like it or not, down and put it in a museum where it has the same historical value. Nothing is lost everything is gained.

[@KCBasketballShots]

I'm from new Orleans and I haven't met a single person who wanted to keep the statue to conserve the confederacy but a lot of people wanted to keep the statue to preserve the history. They say those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

[@Unap0l0getic]

Why is there a statue of a terrorist up anywhere to begin with

[@earlofmar7987]

@@Unap0l0getic The statues were a form of appeasement to the South. The Republicans had beat the Democrats butts and burned them out over Slavery. Dem's got so mad, they killed Lincoln. His Vice President took his place. Andrew Johnson, was a Democrat....if you didn't know, he was from the South. Lincoln thought, he was being "all inclusive", when he choice Johnson. Guess what it got him, a bullet to the back of the head. Andrew Johnson, set about undoing everything that Lincoln had accomplished and commissioned the statues and named the military bases. It stands as a remembrance, for the horrors that the Democrats perpetrated on this country. Every ask yourself why we don't celebrate, winning the Civil War??????

[@morbidlyoppressed9038]

@@Unap0l0getic why is there a jar of urine with a crucifix in it in a New York art exhibit that taxpayers had to pay millions of dollars for ???

[@Unap0l0getic]

@@earlofmar7987 the confederacy was a terrorist group. To say otherwise is mayonaise explaining

[@Geeksmithing]

You show the two families meeting but never talking with each other, and that was what I was hoping to see. :/

[@rondifrankel]

They are talking to each other at 1:10 and 4:24

[@Geeksmithing]

@@rondifrankel I wanted to hear some of the conversation. That is what the title of this video was supposed to be about. "Families of Robert E. Lee and enslaved people unite to tell a more inclusive history together" They never told us anything.

[@journeyman378]

These things talk about everything but wealth and ownership!

[@earlofmar7987]

The property was confiscated. The Republicans, would dumb the dead bodies at the front door step, till they were piled high and rotting. Finally, Mrs. Lee had to leave. They took the property attached to this plantation and buried the bodies. It's call Arlington Cemetery.

[@calguy3838]

@@earlofmar7987 Lee's son sued the government after the war and won. The Lee family was compensated for the loss of the property.

[@earlofmar7987]

@@calguy3838 Yes, the Supreme Court said they had unfairly seized the land. They allowed The Lee's only son, to come and pay the back taxes his mother owed. A whopping $97.00 Then he sold it back to the US. Gov. and Robert Todd Lincoln, who was then Sec. of War, for $150K. and we got the paper-work. Which was fair market price at the time.

[@adaminfinity1733]

I was just there Sunday and it was closed. Missed it by two days.

[@leonlawrencez28]

So much untold history.

[@Msladyrae92]

Yes!! All of the historic sites that honor the people that lived there needs to honor the enslaved that lived there as well. They walked the grounds, built the homes and operated the property on a daily basis.

[@silkytp789]

Honor the spirit of those who loyally fought for their side. Lee was an enemy general, waging war on the United States. Fought and lost, no glory or honor should be bestowed upon him.

[@julesjames593]

He was an American before the Civil War and welcomed back as an American after the Civil War by those who fought against him. If those of his day were willing to forgive him, what makes your view superior to theirs?

[@calguy3838]

@@julesjames593 " If those of his day were willing to forgive him, what makes your view superior to theirs?" I have no problem with forgiving him. But I don't think we should revere him as a great American. I think U.S. Grant put it best when he later described his thoughts about Lee during the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse: "“I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse."

[@Hawkisnoob]

@@julesjames593 He lost he gets nothing good day sir

[@Iris-hx6ox]

@@julesjames593 - That's not as cut and dry as you may believe. There were many northerners out for blood. What saved the confederates from harsher punishment was the election of Andrew Johnson. He was a southerner. His aim was to bring the two factions together as quickly as possible to heal the nation. He was also a racist, fighting against rights for blacks. He is renowned for being the worst president to date and, given his southern roots, a bit too sympathetic toward the south. His battles with Lincoln's Republican Party is proof of that. The confederates for the most part were shamed of what had been done. They didn't fly their flags or tout about the way they do today. Even General Lee has become a bigger myth than the man really was. General Lee himself was against succession and believed slaves should be freed, though against sending them back home to Africa because ironically....twisted Christian beliefs. However, he held his loyalty to Virginia and when she went, he went with her. It wasn't until many decades later that the Daughters of the Confederacy began on a marketing campaign that would whitewash and warp the truths about the war. The truth of the matter is that everyone was so worried about gluing the country back together again, no one ever stopped to consider if the south had really learned their lesson. They obviously did not. The division has never gone away and nothing was learned. So there is no confusion, the confederates were traitors and guilty through and through for treason. They fought against their own country and shed their countrymen's blood. There is no hemming or hawing about it. Anyone sympathetic to the confederate cause needs to have their citizenship revoked and kicked out of the country. These comments aren't making their thoughts more superior to those at the time. They echo what the northerners felt and thought. The North's continued support for the these United States is what makes their view superior to any gray coated traitors or wanna-be's.

[@rodjohnson1000]

You literally just said honor those who fought for their side, then proceeded to say he deserves no honor. Wth?

[@dane4073]

Wow the cicadas can he hear d in the background

[@crazychicSHENA]

Great historical lesson now the familys are back 🔙💕 together.

[@Melons-vg8dq]

Robert E Lee didn't ask for his mug to plastered all over the place.

[@KCBasketballShots]

I'm from new Orleans and I haven't met a single person who wanted to keep the statue to conserve the confederacy but a lot of people wanted to keep the statue to preserve the history. They say those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

[@ericdillon7467]

It's not about predecess (spelling) it's about what the lawyer make us sign in real life to have done to everyone when it's not the Kamasutra with who it's supposed to be.....

[@jessietoney8919]

He freed them only because he was forced too

[@paulzammataro7185]

Does anyone else get annoyed with their conversations at the end of the stories, or is it just me??

[@jamesholcombe435]

Be lee didnt own slaves, his father did but he freed them

[@calguy3838]

Lee owned a few slaves earlier in his life that he inherited from his mother when she died in 1829. He maintained ownership of these slaves for some years after that. He apparently no longer owned any slaves by the time of the Civil War, but it is not known for certain what happened to the slaves he had owned: whether they died, were freed, or were sold. But you were probably referring to the slaves Lee freed in December of 1862. They belonged to his father-in-law's estate (not his father), of which Lee was the executor. According to the terms of George Washington Parke Custis' will, his slaves were to be freed, "said emancipation to be accomplished in not exceeding five years from the time of my decease." December of 1862 was shortly AFTER that five year period expired.

[@joshuahotstuff7522]

"here's a little song I wrote, you might want to sing it note for note" 🎶

[@joshuahotstuff7522]

@Adams Hugo stfu pretty lady

[@philspd473]

@@joshuahotstuff7522 don't worry, be happy...

[@bmiller22765]

While erasing one’s history they want to promote another’s history.

[@thisonetime410]

There is no erasing. It’s including the whole story that ppl like u want hidden.

[@leonlawrencez28]

How so?

[@ScottCleve33]

General Robert E Lee Statue. Tear it down. General Robert E Lee Home. Feature it on CBS this Morning. You'll have to excuse me for not being able to follow the ever changing standards set for by the MSM today.

[@skipfluck4299]

You know there is slavery in Africa in 2021? No talk about that?

[@calguy3838]

Africa is not part of the U.S.

[@beyourself2444]

Well, you talk about it

[@skygun5013]

The common ground. What an amazing fantasy land that must be.

[@terrellsimmo.s7271]

Rubenstein is Jewish 😅

[@sandrajenkins4521]

So did so many others, after The Marches and protests We cannot allow such things in America. .but then your keeping traditional works of the church but We are Not slaves but Servants? What do you say but.pray before answering and know The story Of Moses?

[@Iris-hx6ox]

If we didn't allow such things in America, then it wouldn't exist today. Food for thought! As for the church...you do you, and we'll do us. That is also what makes America. For many people came here for the freedom to practice their religion without being dictated to. Some more food for thought!

[@elnachismo2553]

I remember in Fifth grade my teacher told me she was a descendent of Robert E Lee. She taught the Spanish speaking children and spoke Spanish really well. Mrs. Campbell thank you Ma’am.

[@jobwesleycoxjr5103]

@CBS This Morning Why do you hurt yourself with such nonsense?

[@colecole3352]

@@jobwesleycoxjr5103 You mean by finally having a story that isn't garbage!!

[@jobwesleycoxjr5103]

@@colecole3352 Nah, I mean pretending to actually be the news agency's account and posting messages with a bunch of different accents seems lame and time consuming for not practical reason... It's just dumb. Not seeing that that's what happened is even more dumb

[@mikerobiv5999]

Thank you to my Teacher Mr Cato !

[@Beanpolr]

@@colecole3352 What are you talking about?

[@tishw4576]

I agree with the statement about how removing Robert E Lee's name doesn't erase the history of what happened there.

[@dodobono452]

But it doesn’t need to be put in a praising view

[@Brucev7]

@@dodobono452 and yet, the Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin Statues, names, Remain Untouched

[@dodobono452]

@@Brucev7 what does that have to with United States….

[@jobwesleycoxjr5103]

@@Brucev7 You do know that thousands of their statues were torn down when the Soviet Union fell and even afterwards, right? Don't pull BS from your bottom lmaooo

[@jobwesleycoxjr5103]

@@dodobono452 it has nothing to do with the US and also isn't even true lmaoo

[@janellevans878]

Glad to see more sites are showing a more balanced representation of life and times.

[@redstateforever]

Park ranger hottie!

[@mJ-sm4ss]

I said the same thing! I'm like he's a HUNK!

[@jobwesleycoxjr5103]

I'm assuming the gays are here

[@redstateforever]

@@jobwesleycoxjr5103 Uh, no, darlin’, just a straight chick appreciating the view, lol.

[@journeyman378]

It wasn't hard to find the descendants of the slaves from the Lee family. I would like to know if there is a big wealth difference between the Lee family and the descendants of their slaves!

[@jermainelatimer804]

You know it is 🤨

[@spookyboi8446]

Robert Lee deserves to be remembered in books, not with a monument. As much as I understand the context of history men like Washington, Jefferson and Lee need to be scrutinized for the things they did. They dont get a pass.

[@takesnotesonaboat2343]

“They don’t get a pass” yeah ok buddy. Three men who shaped the creation of one of the wealthiest countries in the world are really rolling in their graves rn because they don’t get a pass from an Amazon warehouse worker like yourself lol

[@JtheCritic]

@@takesnotesonaboat2343 just because you helped build a country (or attempt to tear it apart in the case of Robert E Lee), doesn't make someone immune to moral judgement.

[@1911dawg]

Yeah… hard to believe you were a perfect person either

[@МихајлоЉубисављевић]

lmao

[@chairmanoftheboard11]

@@takesnotesonaboat2343 Robert Lee didn’t help do anything.😂😂😂😂

[@joeryanstrialbook2005]

The narrator, not surprisingly, gets the fact wrong. Arlington was not "R.E. Lee's estate." The land and Africans were owned by Mary Custis's father, George Washington Custis. On his death she inherited Arlington as a life estate; upon her death Arlington passed to her eldest son as specified in Custus's Will. The Will specified that the Africans be manumitted within five years of Custis's death. In December 1862, acting as Executor, R.E. Lee executed the deed of manumission and had it filed in the Henrico County courthouse. Facts matter in the real world, but not in the fantasyland of American media.

[@clf8668]

I'm related to Robert E. Lee and I'm said his monument had to be removed, was hoping they put it at Lee Chapel Museum.His father gave eulogy at President George Washington funeral and related and to many other Presidents and revolutionary war heroes.

[@chairmanoftheboard11]

Why does he need a monument?

[@alexandereckert5939]

@@chairmanoftheboard11bc he’s legendary

[@THORSTENSENLBVU]

Very shallow overview, the plantation and the slaves belonged to his wife’s family. His father in law was Martha Washington’s grandson , George Washington Custis. He was the executor of the estate after his father in law died.

[@marcc2473]

Woke!

[@vreyesreyes6101]

That's absolute E Lee amazing WOW

[@leehayes1177]

Yet, Critical Race Theory should be abolished...

[@Brucev7]

and yet, the Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin Statues, names, Remain Untouched

[@pamelajudithrwanyarare8429]

This is a good story to a complex history. Very good piece of journalism 👍

[@duncanbleak3819]

Nice story!

[@alexandrajackson8498]

Yet teaching Critical Race Theory in school no one wants done.

[@jobwesleycoxjr5103]

Watch the video lmao that's the opposite of what Critical Race Theory is lol it literally wants the things actually taught about. Much of that part of our history is glossed over

[@hks2377]

That’s because so many people are afraid of what they’ll find out, the instinctive reaction of most people, when painful subjects arise, is denial. They don’t want to think about it. They want to avoid empathizing with those who suffered, because they may realize that such a horrifying thing could have happened to them, if they’d been born in the wrong place at the wrong time. They know if they empathize, they may feel compelled to change their own thinking or to help make things better, today.

[@hks2377]

@@jobwesleycoxjr5103 I think you two actually agree. The OP is saying if we listen to the people protesting the teaching of critical race theory, we will miss healing & progress like what’s reported in this video.

[@jobwesleycoxjr5103]

@@hks2377 But the question would be how exactly is teaching the whole history against healing?

[@Brucev7]

@@jobwesleycoxjr5103 America was Founded on Persecution of the Christian Faith. Pilgrims and Puritans. 1620

[@Sashstashreview]

Very hard to believe that the descendants from his family feel different from your family. It’s possible though.

[@TrueThatTucson]

Pfft Americans can no longer call balls and strikes. The place needs to be renamed the Ulysses S Grant. Read The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant. He whooped the rebels early (Belmont) and thoroughly (Appomattox).

[@faranger]

Why don't you tell the truth about our history.

[@crabbyoldman1022]

This story is the truth. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it’s not true. 🙄

[@faranger]

@@crabbyoldman1022 Brain dead

[@faranger]

@Roger Out Ever read these thingys known as "books".

[@cotpisrael7307]

All smiles

[@alexandereckert5939]

3:09 is completely ridiculous and a slander of Lee. Disgusting.

[@JamesAllmond]

Excuse me, that is the Custis-Lee mansion, Custis as in George Washington's Wife's family...the families were joined by marriage. Just saying... This is how it needs to be done, good job folks. Won't repeat it here, but do yourself a favor and look up an episode with RE Lee and taking communion at his church one particular Sunday, after someone else did and folks backed off the altar. Very complex man, and that story, if you bother finding it, may open eyes a little wider... and no, he is not a hero of mine, not at all.

[@Ranwolfe]

Rubenstein, you need to leave it alone and take your money and help people in need

[@ryanblaney2193]

You cant erase history right or wrong we must learn from it so to take away statues is not Right.

[@ericdillon7467]

Is it like a work schedule to get rid of knowing what men looked like Dolia? Lee

[@ericdillon7467]

Have that in you "movie!" Lol

[@Square-Watermelon]

Jesus is God & He loves you Jesus will soon be seen by all men, women, and children up in the clouds. Jesus is returning now! Believe and be saved. Exodus 3:14 (God speaking) And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. John 8:58 (Jesus speaking) Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. John 10:30 (Jesus speaking) I and my Father are one. Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, *The everlasting Father,* The Prince of Peace. Matthew 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel which being interpreted is, *God with us.* John 1:1 & 14 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 14 And the Word was made flesh (Lord Jesus), and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John 8:24 (Jesus speaking) I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. John 14:9 (Jesus speaking) Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father? Hebrews 1:1-3, & 8 (God calls His Son "O God" because Jesus IS God in the flesh) 1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God is for ever and ever a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. 1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Revelation 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; *and every eye shall see him,* and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. Isaiah 44:6 (God speaking) Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. Revelation 1:8 (Jesus speaking) I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, *the Almighty.* Revelation 22:13 (Jesus speaking) I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. --- There Are None Righteous / How To Be Saved Romans 3:10 & 23 10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Luke 5:31-32 (Jesus speaking) 31 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. 32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. 1 Peter 3:18 (The word “quicken” means “to make alive”) For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Ephesians 2:8-9 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

[@keinosmith874]

She still ..wow

[@SBraudt]

Lee freed his slaves before Grant

[@Ewok751]

Where do you get this nonsense?

[@Brucev7]

@@Ewok751 Many Union Soldiers, Higher Ranking Officers had slaves.

[@Ewok751]

@@Brucev7 Name three, and cite your sources.

[@Brucev7]

@@Ewok751 History. Search.

[@Ewok751]

@@Brucev7 That’s not an answer. Nor is it proper citation methodology. Try again.

[@hollywoodclark9578]

"labored for free" ?

[@robyndismon394]

@Nick Ford The recipients receiving help can choose. Blacks or enslaved blacks did not have that option

[@troy.d]

😔

[@Lucy-vx9nn]

Really as a descendant of Robert E. Lee we want it known he was forced to fight for the south and was against slavery,and raised his kids to be against slavery also,his daughter was even jailed for it.i dont like how they act like these two people speak for his whole descended family,when most of his family doesnt even know each other in these days,and the Robert E. Lee named is passed down to all males in the family,dudes acting like hes special to have that name.my grandpa, dad and brothers all do,first born son is named robert Lee and all the other sons after middles names are Lee.

[@calguy3838]

Robert E. Lee was not FORCED to fight for the South. He CHOSE to fight for the South. As for being against slavery, yes he was against slavery in theory. In practice, though, he wasn't willing to lift a finger to advance its end. Also his daughter was arrested 37 years after the war for challenging segregation, not slavery.

[@ndeamonk24]

His family suggests something progressive about humanity

[@brianreid4567]

Always like 👍 reading 📖 about these stories

[@party4keeps28]

Great story! Also, hear the cicadas? Great way to mark the time this was done.

[@ZackEdwards1234]

Cringe

[@miguelrivera8532]

U see big bird

[@carlthornton3076]

Very Good!.

[@ericquezada3955]

✝️♾️✨

[@Unap0l0getic]

Always trying go convolute any conversation regarding racism or slavery

[@HeeeeyItsAllGooood]

Personally, I admire the man. It's a shame that there are some who will take a man, and turn him into an idol of their own design, and perverse the honor of that man. Hold it up and make a movement out of all the things that the man held a higher standard of. Things like HONOR, GOD FEARING, RESPECTFUL, DECENT, STRONG, A GENTLEMAN, FATHER/DADDY, FRIEND, HUSBAND< MAN. It's called history, tell the truth, and teach.

[@TheTrill334]

The black man looks like he is a descendant of robert e lee.

[@wendyshackelford7086]

It's very possible that he is. A lot of plantation owners slept with and impregnated their female slaves.

[@shirleylavis797]

❤️

[@jamesholcombe435]

Yep yankee propaganda

[@ak102986]

Leave the memorial alone!

[@laneatkinson6441]

He doesn't deserve it

[@ak102986]

@@laneatkinson6441 Well you are wrong.

[@ak102986]

@@laneatkinson6441 George Floyd does not deserve a memorial but he is going to get one.

[@therealdark1808]

@@ak102986 That right there tells people all they need to know!

[@shadowbonnie652]

@@ak102986 actually at the end of the day George Floyd should get a memorial because he did nothing wrong and I support the fact he is being honored

[@sefarsogood]

The Lees of Virginia are renown as "quality folks," and this confirms that. God bless them. There's hope.

[@jfontanez1838]

Remove Robert e lee wow that’s terrible taking his name away won’t change nothing

[@abrahamlupis9354]

yeah, as long as usa continues keeping Alta California & New Mexico

[@nicholasscott350]

I went there on a class field trip. I am glad to see it open. We called it the Custis Lee Mansion. Arlington House seems like a good name. Even though Robert E. Lee is one of my three West Point favorites, it should not be a memorial to him. It should be reflective of the times in a historical context.

[@JB-yb4we]

Why is he one of your three West Point favorites and who are your other two?

[@faranger]

Well let's see Lee freed slaves he inherited from his wife's family..... Sherman and Grant both kept their slaves to the end of the war.

[@nicholasscott350]

@@JB-yb4we My three West Point favorites are legendary - meaning the reason for my views cannot be verified. Robert E. Lee, class of 1829, for graduating with the least number of demerits that tied with his classmate Charles Mason. I think Robert E. Lee exemplifies the behavior of an honorable defeated foe, by encouraging his fellow soldiers to lay down their arms and accept surrender. Timothy Leary, plebe dropout class of 1943, who, after refusing to disclose the names of his fellow classmates involved in an alcohol scandal during a football game, endured an entire semester of being shunned by his classmates as punishment. Lastly, my Father, class of 1943, who graduated and made the Charge of the Light Brigade over two dozen times as pilot of a B-17 in the Eighth Army Air Cops.

[@JB-yb4we]

@@nicholasscott350 i dont know whk he served with my 6'4 grandpa flew his 24 as a nose gunner in a b-24. Salute to you and yours. This was a refreshing read on youtube.

[@earlofmar7987]

I disagree, you have to preserve history. Never remove the names. Democrats want to remove these names, so the young, will not know the horrific past of Democrats and the atrocities that they did to this country. We must never repeat the sins of the past.

[@calguy3838]

Statues tend to be more about myth than history.

[@jannettsnow2856]

Did you know he had white slaves also. I just found out.

[@MichaelJones-or5kp]

White people were called indentured servants, something completely different than topic at hand

[@rickymyers503]

Yes their where white slaves all down through the ages of time look it up

[@calguy3838]

There were no white slaves.

[@MichaelJones-or5kp]

@@rickymyers503 There were white slaves but not in America and not under a system based on race. I know this to be true

[@josephkondrat7084]

The statue of General Lee should be at his home. He was an American Officer in the service of the United States long before he was a General for the South. General Lee freed his slaves and that should count for more than a passing comment in history.

[@laneatkinson6441]

He had no choice, slavery was abolished. He was pro-slavery and anti-racial equality

[@Angel-tw3ko]

He shouldn't had slaves to begin with, who gave them the right to control another human being? Remember what happened the Pharoah?

[@bangdollarsign]

And an engineer!

[@FitBabe]

You don’t deserve kudos for freeing humans that you owned.

[@Brucev7]

@@laneatkinson6441 Dean Hermsen--'Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, Washington DC, and Union-occupied New Orleans. All of there places had slavery enacted and slavery was permitted even after the Emancipation proclamation was announced.'

[@sylviajackman6567]

MEGAN MARKLE MOTHER WENT TO MEGAN WEDDING, SINCE THEN DORIA HAIR NEVER GROW AND DORIS NEVER WASH HER HAIR.

[@Iris-hx6ox]

What is wrong with you?

[@oghyeahoo6165]

All the talk about Racism.. No talk about Capitalism linked to Racism

[@redridinghood6346]

Hmmm should try not deleting true history as well....ya that should be what's addressed but nooooo everyone is racist shhhh....

[@redridinghood6346]

@Blake 😑 OK reeee

[@therealdark1808]

They are not deleting history! They are RIGHTING histsory! There is a difference!

[@redridinghood6346]

@@therealdark1808 passion is good....assumption no bueno

[@travislilienthal1514]

stop trying to erase the past

[@TrueThatTucson]

Tell the history accurately. This is further romanticism of the treacherous rebellion.

[@faithhudson4576]

😄😄 so they are ok with replacement and getting ride of their history...shame ... history is history get over it

[@obriantucker2256]

This is a bunch of symbolic B.$. Because the second you really get down to brass tacks and start talking about truly rectifying salvery in the form of "PAYING" reparations. The people who benefitted off of salvery start defining what reparations is.

[@maverick6775]

Robert E Lee's third daughter's nephew was my great great great grandmother's fourth aunt's niece's first husband.

[@Kirsten_is_cursed10]

Nobody cares :)

[@garywebb5927]

@@Kirsten_is_cursed10 why so full of hatred?

[@jasonangulo7257]

Such a great story, I learned that Robert E. Lee and Stone Wall Jackson of the Confederate army were Against Slavery. See him being mixed up with the hate groups is horrible, and there’s some who agree that the confederacy is their southern heritage and they aren’t racists and they love also the history of the Civil War.

[@calguy3838]

Robert E. Lee was against slavery in theory. In practice, though, he wasn't willing to lift a finger to advance it's end. And he fought on the side that sought to ensure the preservation of slavery.

[@mtn1793]

Robert E Lee was an honorable, talented and good man at heart. He was just caught up in a time and place that was beyond his control. It’s a mark of his honor that his family retains his grace.

[@paulzammataro7185]

🐂💩

[@kennyblair7311]

Trump caused the Robert E. Lee statue to come down.

[@mightymouse2098]

Kenny Blair BS, that was your paid Democrat thugs. Get it right.