Imagine giving your life for your country, earning a spot at Arlington, and then being buried next to a racist statue.
Like, do you know it’s history? We seized the land from Lee, the leader of Confederates and who was himself strongly and publicly against any monument honoring the South…
Which is why it wasn’t installed till 50 years later when the rest of these racist monuments sprung up.
Aye this is it. Arlington National Cemetery was literally Robert E Lee’s personal estate. The Union Army took it over and decided to start burying the Union dead there – Lee was killing them, so he can keep them.
It’s crazy they’d put a Confederate monument there, on what is basically a US Army cemetery, that exists entely due to how crazy bloody the Civil War was.
What?
It’s Arlington…
Imagine giving your life for your country, earning a spot at Arlington, and then being buried next to a racist statue.
Like, do you know it’s history? We seized the land from Lee, the leader of Confederates and who was himself strongly and publicly against any monument honoring the South…
Which is why it wasn’t installed till 50 years later when the rest of these racist monuments sprung up.
Aye this is it. Arlington National Cemetery was literally Robert E Lee’s personal estate. The Union Army took it over and decided to start burying the Union dead there – Lee was killing them, so he can keep them.
It’s crazy they’d put a Confederate monument there, on what is basically a US Army cemetery, that exists entely due to how crazy bloody the Civil War was.
Long past time they removed it.