(06-09-2020, 04:19 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(06-09-2020, 04:01 PM)mikesez Wrote: It was placed four to six decades after the civil War as part of a whole of government effort to roll back the rights and status that black people had won during Reconstruction, to erase not only the gains themselves but also the memory of those gains.

And Robert E Lee may have opposed seccession, but he also wholeheartedly supported slavery.  He rubbed salt into the wounds of the slaves he whipped theb wrote eloquent letters to his family about how it was God's will that they be "educated" this way.  His explanation for not wanting Virginia to secede but then fighting to defend her when she did was similarly strained and hypocritical, I'm sure.

Once again you are wrong.  It was a monument to the American soldiers from Florida that fought in The Civil War.  There weren't many and Florida had a relatively small role in The Civil War.

As far as your "history" regarding Robert E. Lee, you only look at it through your leftist democrat eyes.  Put yourself back in 1850 and honestly say that you would feel the same way that you do today.  Society was different back then.

I'm not appealing to what was written on the plaque at the base of the statue.
I'm asking you to look at the time and the context and perhaps consider that the words carved on the plaque are much less than the full story.
Am I wrong about the statue being placed 40 to 60 years after the end of the civil War?
Am I wrong about what mindset was then dominant in Tallahassee and in Duval County? Am I wrong about how the same people who erected the statue curtailed the rights of their black neighbors, intimidating them for trying to vote, or trying to sue, or even trying to argue over wages and prices with their local businesses?

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