Things that made you laugh today (Political Version)

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Disregarding that it is, in fact, a statue honoring a traitor against the United States, how about lumping it in as being part of the rampant addition of these "memorials" all throughout the south during times of pushback against black people having rights?

We could talk about what else was happening in Virginia around the time that statue was erected. Just on the actual state government level there was the Racial Integrity Act (and not long after, the "one drop" law) and the Public Assemblages act. It's not a coincidence that so many "reminders" of the Confederacy popped up in places at the same times that people felt white racial superiority was especially threatened...

Don't misconstrue what I'm trying to say - I don't personally believe we should be honoring confederate generals any more than confederate flags should fly from federal buildings,. I'm just saying that to call Lee an outright racist in the same way a neo-nazi is isn't correct.