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Erasing History: West Point to Eliminate Robert E. Lee’s Presence
The purge of American history continues.
West Point says it intends to remove a bust and portrait of Lee, rename streets and buildings named after him, and even replace a quote from him in a plaza. Apparently, evidence of the academy’s most celebrated graduate — second in his class with no demerits, appointed superintendent later in his career, and celebrated Civil War general who met many of his subordinates and adversaries while running the famed institution — will disappear. It will be as if he never existed.
The killing of George Floyd and cascade of protests triggered a political tsunami against past remembrances. It was not just statues of Confederate generals that were taken down. The North’s commander, Ulysses S. Grant, suffered the same humiliating fate. A statue and mural of President George Washington were targeted. President Thomas Jefferson and “Star Spangled Banner” composer Francis Scott Key also were deemed to be beyond the pale. Congressional legislation to rename Washington, D.C., seems only a matter of time."
https://spectator.org/erasing-history-west-point-to-eliminate-robert-e-lees-presence/
The purge of American history continues.
West Point says it intends to remove a bust and portrait of Lee, rename streets and buildings named after him, and even replace a quote from him in a plaza. Apparently, evidence of the academy’s most celebrated graduate — second in his class with no demerits, appointed superintendent later in his career, and celebrated Civil War general who met many of his subordinates and adversaries while running the famed institution — will disappear. It will be as if he never existed.
The killing of George Floyd and cascade of protests triggered a political tsunami against past remembrances. It was not just statues of Confederate generals that were taken down. The North’s commander, Ulysses S. Grant, suffered the same humiliating fate. A statue and mural of President George Washington were targeted. President Thomas Jefferson and “Star Spangled Banner” composer Francis Scott Key also were deemed to be beyond the pale. Congressional legislation to rename Washington, D.C., seems only a matter of time."
https://spectator.org/erasing-history-west-point-to-eliminate-robert-e-lees-presence/
