From this article:
"But even if one conceded Lee’s military prowess, he would still be
responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans in
defense of the South’s authority to own millions of human beings as
property because they are black. Lee’s elevation is a key part of a
150-year-old propaganda campaign designed to erase slavery as the cause
of the war and whitewash the Confederate cause as a noble one. That
ideology is known as the Lost Cause, and as historian David Blight
writes, it provided a 'foundation on which Southerners built the Jim
Crow system.'”
Yeah, let's preserve that 'culture.' Not!
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