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Friday Night Amazing Jam: Jacob Collier, "Here Comes the Sun" (Feat. Dodie)

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)4/27/2019 7:09:53 am PDT

re: #254 Belafon

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Rommel was considered a great general yet I have not seen a monument to him in Germany. Lee was never General Robert E. Lee, USA. And the reason we have Arlington Cemetery where thousands of American men and women are buried including my cousin is Lee’s treachery. The monuments exist for one reason only and that is to intimidate people who challenged the white supremacist hegemony. of the Jim Crow South. And if you don’t believe me, look at what was said when these sculptures and monuments were established. Look at the CSA’s own words. You can appreciate Lee’s contribution to military strategy just as many strategists acknowledge Rommel’s but you don’t celebrate a man woh took up arms against his country like that. My problem with the CSA statues remains pretty simple, its a fuck you to the thousands of Americans like my second great grandfather who did the right thing in our country’s darkest hour.