[l2ridehd]

First, what happened was terrible.

But I fail to understand why we want to re-write history? As a country we fight that every chance we get. Like the leader of Iran saying the Holocaust never happened. Or Russian school books being purged of the Stalin killing of 20 million people.

Why is removing a confederate statue any different? Lee was a leader of the Confederate Army. We did have a horrible civil war. Like it or not it's our history. Neither side should want to change the recorded history of those facts. If we do we will repeat them.

Weather Lee stood for slavery or states rights shouldn't matter now. What matters is there was change. And we all need to remember that it happened and things like his statue doesn't honor him, it reminds us all what a horrific time in our history that war and the things that it stood for, and the changes that happened because of it.

Stop trying to change the past, work on making sure the future is better because of our past mistakes.