A Fitting Tribute to Robert E. Lee
Need I say it, but Trump can go to hell. He can shove that Robert E. Lee Statue up his posterior and ask all of his Nazi friends for help to remove it.
But there is a place where people can go for a fitting tribute to the treasonous bastard. It sits high on a hilltop in one of our most sacred public spaces. There in the Arlington Cemetery, sits the old family home surrounded by the dead that perished by his treachery.
When the South seceded, Lee left his home, resigned from the Union Army and took his place with the traitors. The Union took over the property and eventually turned it into a graveyard for the war dead.
So if "historians" want to remember Robert E. Lee, let them do it at Arlington Cemetery where the true nature of his deeds can be witnessed first hand.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-arlington-national-cemetery-came-to-be-145147007/
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What better way could there be
to commemorate Robert E Lee
than running people over with your car?
Trump is not exactly a student of history... 
A lot of patriots are buried there, I was particularly moved at actually seeing JFK's grave and the eternal flame - with his brothers close beside him - and his newborn baby, Patrick, too. 
"How the African-American Syphax Family Traces Its Lineage to Martha Washington." Resources at the African American History Museum deliver a wealth of opportunity for genealogical research. March 9, 2018.
When Stephen Hammond was growing up, he scoffed when relatives told him he was related to the family of the nation’s first president, George Washington. It turns out, they were absolutely right. “We’ve discovered many documents that have been written that have talked about the Washingtons and their connection to the Syphaxes,” Hammond explains.
The patriarch of the family, William Anderson Syphax, was a freed slave, born in 1773. His son, Charles Syphax, was a slave at Mount Vernon, the home of George and Martha Washington. Charles Syphax was among nearly 60 slaves inherited by George Washington Parke Custis, the grandson of Martha Washington. Charles Syphax eventually married a mulatto slave named Maria Carter Custis, the illegitimate daughter of George Washington Parke Custis and a slave maid. The powerful family remains active in the D.C. area, and has made many accomplishments in cities across the nation.
“I think the most important thing is that the Syphaxes have had a huge impact on the education of African-Americans in Washington, D.C.,” Hammond says. “I think the Syphaxes have had a tremendous impact on aspects of this country and I think other (African-American) families do as well.” Read More...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-african-american-syphax-family-traces-its-lineage-martha-washington-180968439/
Arlington House, front view. Home of George Washington Parke Custis, nicknamed 'Washy,' the grandson raised by Martha Dandridge Custis Washington and George Washington at Mount Vernon. Custis built his home, Arlington not far from Mount Vernon in the early 1800s. During the Civil War the property was confiscated by the federal government.
Maria Carter Custis Syphax, (Mrs. Charles Syphax) was the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis (grandson of Martha Washington, and father- in- law of Robert E. Lee). Maria Syphax was the half sister of Mary Custis Lee (Mrs. Robert E. Lee) through their father 'Washy' Custis. Similar relationships existed between slaves and planters such as the Hemmings and Jefferson familes of Monticello, and many others in the US south.
The Syphax family of Arlington, Va. dates to the 1700s with ties to the Parke-Custis-Washington-Lee families.
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Robert E. Lee Memorial yet I think the equestrian statue of him in Charlottesville, Va. and any others should go to a place other than Arlington House. The property was actually the family home of Lee's wife, Mary Randolph Custis Lee, the only child of G.W.P.C. 'Washy' Lee and Maria Lee Fitzhugh. Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) and wife Mary were unable to return to the Arlington property after the Civil War. They lived instead in Lexington, Va. where he held the president position at Washington and Lee University for the last five years of his life. The Lees are buried in the Lee Chapel crypt there with their children. In my view, CSA & RE Lee statuary/memorials should remain on private property and not on public view.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee
Equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee, Charlottesville, Va.
+ Wiki. Robert E. Lee, Sculpture: The Robert Edward Lee (sculpture) at Charlottesville was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. Since there is no historical link between Lee and the city of Charlottesville, the City Council of Charlottesville voted in February 2017 to remove it, along with a statue of Stonewall Jackson, but this was temporarily stayed by court action. They did rename Lee Park, Emancipation Park.
The prospect of the statues being removed and the parks being renamed, brought many out-of-towners, described as white supremacist and alt-right, to Charlottesville in the Unite the Right rally of August 2017, in which 3 people died. For several months the monuments were shrouded in black. As of October 2018, the fate of the statue of Lee is unresolved. The name of the park it is located in was changed again by the City Council, to Market Street Park, in July 2018.
+ Views on Slavery: In 1865, after the war, Lee was paroled and signed an oath of allegiance, asking to have his citizenship of the United States restored. Lee's application was misplaced; as a result, he did not receive a pardon and his citizenship was not restored. In 1865, Lee became president of Washington College (later Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Virginia; in that position, he supported reconciliation between North and South. Lee accepted "the extinction of slavery" provided for by the Thirteenth Amendment, but publicly opposed racial equality and granting African Americans the right to vote and other political rights. Lee died in 1870. In 1975, the U.S. Congress posthumously restored Lee's citizenship effective June 13, 1865.
+ 'Lost Cause' Mythology: Lee opposed the construction of public memorials to Confederate rebellion on the grounds that they would prevent the healing of wounds inflicted during the war. Nevertheless, after his death, Lee became an icon used by promoters of "Lost Cause" mythology, who sought to romanticize the Confederate cause and strengthen white supremacy in the South. Later in the 20th century, particularly following the civil rights movement, historians reassessed Lee; his reputation fell based on his failure to support rights for freedmen after the war, and even his strategic choices as a military leader fell under scrutiny.
- Wiki. Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, also known as the Custis–Lee Mansion, is a Greek revival mansion in Arlington, Virginia, that was once Lee's home. It overlooks the Potomac River and the National Mall in Washington, D.C. During the Civil War, the grounds of the mansion were selected as the site of Arlington National Cemetery, in part to ensure that Lee would never again be able to return to his home. The United States designated the mansion as a National Memorial to Lee in 1955, a mark of widespread respect for him in both the North and South.
Arlington House, main east front facing the Potomac River with Union soldiers on the lawn during the Civil War, 1864.