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Originally Posted by bimmertl
Really, kids won't know the history of our great country since a Robert E Lee statue was taken down?
Grew up in Wisconsin. Don't believe there were any Lee statues there or anywhere in the Midwest and probably most of the rest of the USA other than the South. Somehow millions of Americans learned US history without seeing statues of Lee. Amazing!
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You are dead on. True and factual history has absolutely no correlation to some statue or monument on public property, especially those erected decades after the actual event. Those things were put up solely to intimidate blacks and to help push Jim Crow laws, which is why they are mostly a southern thing. Not to even mention, since when should this great country - celebrate traitorous losers?