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TexasTowelie

(117,207 posts)
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 07:18 PM Jul 2015

At New Orleans City Council meeting, Robert E. Lee is praised as black people's friend

The first person who stood in the New Orleans City Council chambers Thursday to defend Robert E. Lee wanted to highlight everything except Lee's leading role in a war against the United States government.

To hear this man tell it, General Lee was really black people's good friend, opposing their enslavement and supporting their education.

And, oh, by the way, he added, one of Lee's assignments as an officer was to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

You mean the same Corps of Engineers that's to blame for New Orleans drowning after Hurricane Katrina? And here I was thinking that I already knew all the reasons to dislike like General Lee.

Read more: http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/07/confederate_monuments_new_orle.html#incart_2box_

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At New Orleans City Council meeting, Robert E. Lee is praised as black people's friend (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2015 OP
well, by keeping the plantations alive, he was a 'job creator' HFRN Jul 2015 #1
K & R for exposure. nt SunSeeker Jul 2015 #2
 

HFRN

(1,469 posts)
1. well, by keeping the plantations alive, he was a 'job creator'
Thu Jul 9, 2015, 07:37 PM
Jul 2015

(even if they forgot the wage part of the job)

that's how modern spin-meisters might put it

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