Another fantastic show. Very interesting discussion of Robert E. Lee. For what it is worth I think what makes Lee a particularly interesting character is that he wrote as passionately as Lincoln about his feelings against slavery and he was in fact a republican, just as was Lincoln. He was educated alongside the generals who later led th…
Another fantastic show. Very interesting discussion of Robert E. Lee. For what it is worth I think what makes Lee a particularly interesting character is that he wrote as passionately as Lincoln about his feelings against slavery and he was in fact a republican, just as was Lincoln. He was educated alongside the generals who later led the Union army and he was himself offered the command of the Union Army but painfully declined because the Union had declared war on his state. Imagine if Nato declared war on France and expected French generals within NATO to fight on behalf of the invader. This is in no way to justify the "cornerstone cause" of the South's argument, they had built a fragile economy based on 1% of the people owning slaves leading to depressed wages for the population at large, it was an absolute basket-case of an economy and had to end... But Lee was complex and conflicted, he was respected by his foes and "with malice toward none" after a war which pitted family members against one another, which in itself demonstrates that a line could not neatly be drawn across the country as if to say those above are of one mind and those below of another. A statue for Clarence Thomas would likely to be even more controversial which is terrible for a man who has achieved so much from his dirt-poor, Gullah-speaking origins.
Another fantastic show. Very interesting discussion of Robert E. Lee. For what it is worth I think what makes Lee a particularly interesting character is that he wrote as passionately as Lincoln about his feelings against slavery and he was in fact a republican, just as was Lincoln. He was educated alongside the generals who later led the Union army and he was himself offered the command of the Union Army but painfully declined because the Union had declared war on his state. Imagine if Nato declared war on France and expected French generals within NATO to fight on behalf of the invader. This is in no way to justify the "cornerstone cause" of the South's argument, they had built a fragile economy based on 1% of the people owning slaves leading to depressed wages for the population at large, it was an absolute basket-case of an economy and had to end... But Lee was complex and conflicted, he was respected by his foes and "with malice toward none" after a war which pitted family members against one another, which in itself demonstrates that a line could not neatly be drawn across the country as if to say those above are of one mind and those below of another. A statue for Clarence Thomas would likely to be even more controversial which is terrible for a man who has achieved so much from his dirt-poor, Gullah-speaking origins.