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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So much ignorance here. It wasn't about slavery. Enjoy being brainwashed![/quote]

You were the one brainwashed by your VA textbooks. The rest of us have critical thinking skills. It was about preserving the Southern economy, and protecting the rights of wealthy property owners. Not coincidentally, both things were dependent upon chattel slavery. So yes, it was about state's rights to self-govern and individual's rights to own other human beings as property, aka, it was about slavery. [/quote]

Actually, Lee's motivation for resigning his commission was based on his loyalty to the state of Virginia, so it wasn't all about slavery, to Lee.  He made it clear that he was against secession, and only resigned his commission once Virginia actually seceded.[/quote]

Yup. You were brainwashed.

What year did you graduate HS? Wonder if they still teach that crap in APS. Richmond/VA DOE is still controlled by the nutters. Did you see the abstinence education crap they’re starting to insert? [/quote]

I did not attend APS schools.  Sorry.[/quote]

VA? What year? [/quote]

Yes to VA...70s/80s.  Not that it matters.  Plenty of documentation, outside of classroom history books, that supports the assertion that he was most concerned about being loyal to Virginia.[/quote]

“Loyalty to VA” doesn’t mean much. German commanders who were “loyal to Germany” weren’t any less Nazi leaders.

“Loyalty to VA” = loyalty to slavery. Many people in VA were happy to abolish slavery. That’s why we now have WV.

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It means something.  It means that he was conflicted about the dissolution of the Union.  There were things about both the southern states and northern states, that he did not like.  Read his letters just prior to Virginia's secession.  He clearly felt he had no choice but to be loyal to Virginia.

Was he a slaveholder?  Yes.  Was that terrible?  Of course.  However, that does not mean that slavery was HIS reason for supporting Virginia's secession.  Further, I have yet to meet anyone who thinks that Lee's name on W-L high school was meant to honor the fact that he was a slaveholder.[/quote]

Loyalty to VA = loyalty to slavery. He made his choice. He chose to lead an army to fight -- to kill others -- to maintain slavery.

It wasn't just that he was a slaveholder, but that he led an army to fight to keep slavery. The W-L name is celebrating this GENERAL of the Confederacy.

W-L was created in 1925 during peak Jim Crow era -- it celebrates a Confederate general. Of course, it was intended at that time to boost white supremacy.

Brainwashed. 
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But...Generals.  LOL. [/quote]

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