03-20-2017, 05:30 PM
(03-20-2017, 04:06 PM)Dill Wrote: As a "product of his times," Lee certainly forced his slaves to work for him as long as he could. He does not seem to care whom he got them from.
Lee's treatment of white, northern civilians was indeed very respectful. But what happened to northern blacks caught fleeing before the Army of Virginia in 1863?
Seems a little unfair to compare "northern armies" behavior to Lee's behavior. What happens if we compare armies to armies? Or Lee to Grant or Lincoln, who freed the slaves? And by the way, I am aware of no "northern army" not forbidden to rape and murder civilians.
The real question is whether Lee should be held forth as a neo-Confederate icon, his "honor" used to revise our history of the "Great War of Northern Aggression." That is what is at stake in celebrating him on MLK day, and also what is at stake in "honor comparisons" between the north and south.
I say no.
Millhouse said, "No," too, to be fair.
My bigger concern is why Millhouse? Is he paying homage to Bart's little weiner friend or America's icon of integrity and leadership, Richard Milhous Nixon? Or is it something even more sinister - both?
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
