ROBERT E. LEE'S DIRECT DESCENDANT DENOUNCES CHARLOTTESVILLE WHITE NATIONALISTS: 'THERE'S NO PLACE FO

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Newsweek

ROBERT E. LEE'S DIRECT DESCENDANT DENOUNCES CHARLOTTESVILLE WHITE NATIONALISTS: 'THERE'S NO PLACE FOR THAT HATE'
BY ZACH SCHONFELD ON 8/15/17 AT 9:07 PM

Three days after Charlottesville, Virginia, erupted into violence and racial unrest, the family of Robert E. Lee is denouncing the white nationalist groups who rallied and marched to preserve a statue of the long-dead Civil War general.

"There's no place for that," Robert E. Lee V tells Newsweek, referring to the white supremacist protesters who carried torches and marched through Charlottesville on Friday. "There's no place for that hate."

The statue of Lee, which has stood in Charlottesville since 1924, is now at the center of a racially charged conflict that has gripped the city and resulted in one woman's death. In February, the local city council decided to remove the statue from the park, noting that for many people, such Confederate monuments are "painful reminders of the violence and injustice of slavery and other harms of white supremacy that are best removed from public spaces." In May, white supremacist Richard Spencer organized a demonstration in support of the monument, and on Friday evening, a large group of torch-bearing white nationalist marchers descended on Charlottesville to protest the decision to remove the statue.

Lee, a great-great-grandson of the Confederate hero, and his sister, Tracy Lee Crittenberger, issued a written statement on Tuesday condemning the "hateful words and violent actions of white supremacists, the KKK or neo-Nazis."

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/robert-e-lee-statue-charlottesville-donald-trump-white-nationalists-651208?piano_t=1

[Princess Turandot]

1. Did they indicate that they approved of the removal of the statue? ...nt

[Gore1FL]

2. Per the article,

"The Lee heir says it would make sense to remove the embattled statue from public display and put it in a museum—a view shared by the great-great-grandson of Jefferson Davis."

[calimary]

3. So good to see stories like this. Thank you for posting it, Judi Lynn!

SO good to see stories like this. I bet there'll be more.

For example, did you see the Johnny Cash one?

JOHNNY CASH’S FAMILY TELLS WHITE SUPREMACISTS TO SHUT THE F*CK UP

A message from the children of Johnny Cash:
We were alerted to a video of a young man in Charlottesville, a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi, spewing hatred and bile. He was wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the name of Johnny Cash, our father. We were sickened by the association.
Johnny Cash was a man whose heart beat with the rhythm of love and social justice. He received humanitarian awards from, among others, the Jewish National Fund, B’nai Brith, and the United Nations. He championed the rights of Native Americans, protested the war in Vietnam, was a voice for the poor, the struggling and the disenfranchised, and an advocate for the rights of prisoners. Along with our sister Rosanne, he was on the advisory board of an organization solely devoted to preventing gun violence among children. His pacifism and inclusive patriotism were two of his most defining characteristics. He would be horrified at even a casual use of his name or image for an idea or a cause founded in persecution and hatred. The white supremacists and neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville are poison in our society, and an insult to every American hero who wore a uniform to fight the Nazis in WWII. Several men in the extended Cash family were among those who served with honor.

Our dad told each of us, over and over throughout our lives, ‘Children, you can choose love or hate. I choose love.’
We do not judge race, color, sexual orientation or creed. We value the capacity for love and the impulse towards kindness. We respect diversity, and cherish our shared humanity. We recognize the suffering of other human beings, and remain committed to our natural instinct for compassion and service.
To any who claim supremacy over other human beings, to any who believe in racial or religious hierarchy: we are not you. Our father, as a person, icon, or symbol, is not you. We ask that the Cash name be kept far away from destructive and hateful ideology.
We Choose Love.
Rosanne Cash
Kathy Cash
Cindy Cash
Tara Cash
John Carter Cash
August 16, 2017
‘Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.’ Rep. John Lewis


http://reverbpress.com/news/johnny-cash-family-white-supremacists-stfu/

NICE to see strong prominent heavyweight voices stepping up and speaking out about The Madness of King Donald.

[Yupster]

4. Lee would have agreed too

After the war, he told his former soldiers to go home and be good citizens so they could help rebuild the devastated south.

He spent the little time he had left as President of Washington University (now Washington and Lee), where he met each individual student in his office stressing gentlemanly conduct. There is an interesting letter a student sent home to his parents saying they were on the green playing a new game called baseball when the old general stopped his horse Traveller and watched them for a little while. I always thought that was an ultimate picture of the changing of the eras.