beautiful works of art and then you've got the military brilliance of robert e. lee which is still studied by military theorists today the passion for this issue we is the sins of confederate ancestors they're our family we review the fact that we feel in our opinion they fought for a noble cause. to overthrow it overbearing federal government would you want anybody to talk badly about your family just the notion of family you know brings up a lot of emotions in me but at the same time if there is a member of one's family that is doing something that you don't agree with you have a responsibility for them sure and we're responsible for the legacy of our ancestors as far as telling the truth as we see it robert e. lee didn't say i'm going to fight for slavery no what he said is i cannot term us a word against virginia so that tells you that the war was not about slavery there are some things we're not going to agree on your i appreciate your time and giving us your point of view absolutely. andrew's view that the civil war wasn't primarily fought to preserve slavery h

high schools around the country named after robert e. leehange their names, but in order to save money, the name still has to end in lee. ( laughter ) so they're just going to cross the thing out? just be, like, not that lee, other lee? so, what, spike lee? ( cheers and applause ) yeah? i guess so. i don't know. stan lee? yeah? yeah? ( cheers and applause ) yeah, we're on a roll. r. kelly? ( audience reacts ) okay, fine, back to robert e. lee! fine! i don't know why these schools are still trying to name themselves after people. people will always let you down, remember this. don't name your shit after people. it's always going to happen. or the other way, what happens is the institution will ruin the person's reputation. look at la guardia airport. it's named after one of the greatest mayors of new york city, and now anytime someone hears his name, they associate with a place they lost their luggage and contracted typhoid! ( laughter ) it really is weird to see how deeply engraidged robert e. lee is in american culture. you guys remember th

the statue of my ancestor robert e. lee is one of the 5 confederate statues on monument avenue the grandest street in richmond it stands 18 meters tall and dominates the city's landscape. for over 100 years richmond has honored as one of its greatest heroes until recently. in 20159 black church goers in south carolina were shot by a white supremacist the killer was photographed with a confederate flag a symbol for racists of white supremacy. soon after the city council in new orleans voted for their confederate statues to be removed the state of louisiana was once a major center for the slave trade. and public consultations took place in virginia which once had the largest in slave population in america in richmond the debate over the monument avenue statues was heated now is the time for us so tearing down participation trophies for this is a sign of the exchange. bring. the group see. let's remember too that after the arlington only trying to help reconcile and rebuild relationships between north and south how can anyone

the statue of my ancestor robert e. lee is one of the 5 confederate statues on monument avenue the grandest street in richmond it stands 18 meters tall and dominates the city's landscape. for over 100 years richmond has honored as one of its greatest heroes until recently. in 20159 black church goers in south carolina were shot by a white supremacist the killer was photographed with a confederate flag a symbol for racists of white supremacy. soon after the city council in new orleans voted for their confederate statues to be removed the state of louisiana was once a major center for the slave trade. and public consultations took place in virginia which once had the largest in slave population in america in richmond the debate over the monument avenue statues was heated now is the time for us to tearing down participation trophies for the losing side. as you just. told. me to see. let's remember too that after the arlington county could to help reconcile and rebuild relationships between north and south how can anyone say th

beautiful works of art and then you've got the military brilliance of robert e. lee which is still studied by military theorists today the passion for this issue we is the sins of confederate ancestors they're our family we review the fact that we feel in our opinion they fought for a noble cause. to overthrow it overbearing federal government would you want anybody to talk badly about your family just the notion of family you know brings up a lot of emotions in me but at the same time if there is a member of one's family that is doing something that you don't agree with you have a responsibility for them sure and we're responsible for the legacy of our ancestors as far as telling the truth as we see it robert e. lee didn't say i'm going to fight for slavery no what he said is i cannot term us a word against virginia so that tells you that the war was not about slavery there are some things we're not going to agree on i appreciate your time and giving us your point of view absolutely. andrew's view that the civil war wasn't primarily fought to preserve slavery has be

robert e. lee absolutely with the beard with the reddish beard you look more like jim stewart but that's actually let's take a look at a few things and write. these are the dead from gettysburg. we visit the confederate section of the cemetery with the graves of around 2000 soldiers who died in gettysburg a battle lost by robert e. lee in 1963 it was arguably the turning point in the war. heavy casualties. around 50000 soldiers from both sides died in that battle there are a lot of people that feel that those statues need to come down when you look at these monuments just on a pure abstract view they're beautiful works of art. beautiful works of art and then you've got the military brilliance of robert e. lee which is still studied by military gear is today the passion for this issue we is the sins of confederate ancestors they're our family we review the fact that we feel in our opinion they fought for a noble cause to overthrow it overbearing federal government would you want anybody to talk badl

the statue of my ancestor robert e. lee is one of the 5 confederate statues on monument avenue the grandest street in richmond it stands 18 meters tall and dominates the city's landscape. for over 100 years richmond has honored as one of its greatest heroes until recently. in 20159 black church goers in south carolina were shot by a white supremacist the killer was photographed with a confederate flag a symbol for racists of white supremacy. soon after the city council in new orleans voted for their confederate statues to be removed the state of louisiana was once a major center for the slave trade. and public consultations took place in virginia which once had the largest in slave population in america in richmond the debate over the monument avenue statues was heated now is the time for us so tearing down participation trophies for the losing side. as you. wish me to see. let's remember too that after the arlington county can to help reconcile and rebuild relationships between north and south how can anyone say this great

or general robert e. lee led the confederate army against the union during the american civil war in the 1900 centuries. i was proud that this man considered one of virginia's greatest heroes was a relative. i wasn't told that he fought to defend slavery. on the 12th of august 2017 these pictures of racial hatred in charlottesville in virginia were particularly shocking. because that white supremacist were rallying around was the preservation of a statue of my ancestor robert e. lee. i felt outrage that my family name was associated with the k.k.k. and neo nazis. what happened in charlottesville made me consider for the 1st time the true legacy of my slave owning ancestors. i want to know why people in my home state of virginia are so divided on the subject of confederate monuments and what they represent. and i want to find out how much the oppression of enslaved people by my ancestors has had an impact on black lives in america today. what i'm told will at times make me deeply uncomfortable. but these conve

robert w. lee, a descendant of robert e. lee. also author of "a sin by any other name."appreciate you coming on. van, i'm going to start with you. what strikes you most about those remarks by mitch mcconnell? >> the thing that really gets me is that comment about president obama. the fact that senate majority leader mcconnell seems to believe that obama himself was reparations. that's a tough one to me. you know, i think it was a big thing for african-americans, but, you know, 40 acres and a barack obama, i don't know if that's how that works. yeah, but, you know what? the whole thing it was so long ago. that's not what reparations has ever been about. it's not about who or what person necessarily is responsible, it's the fact that the united states government built a government and an economy that sustained itself off the back of slavery and then jim crow. and jim crow, my grandmother was a grown woman with kids when she could vote legally for the first time. so, you know, that's what we're talking about here. not just something, oh, so long ago and we got obama because

. >> let's bring in van new kirk, a staff writer at the "atlantic" and robert lee, a descendent of general robert end the author of "a sin by any other name and the reckoning of the south." and so, what strikes you the most from the remarks of mitch mcconnell? >> what gets me the comment of president obama, and the fact that senate majority leader mcconnell seems to believe that obama, himself, was reparations. that is a tough one. that is a tough one to me. it was a big thing for african-americans, but, you know, 40 acres under barack obama, i am not sure how that works. but the whole thing, and it is so long ago, and that is not what reparations has ever been about. it is not about who or what person necessarily is responsible, but it is the fact that the united states government built a government and economy that sustained itself off of the back of slavery and then jim crow. and jim crow, and my grandmother was a grown woman with kids when sheegally for the first time. that is what we are talking about here, and not something so long ago and we have obama b because of it. >> and you say, robert

stigma and village was another camp that emerged on the property of robert e. lee in arlington. dated 1865. is the very fact it existed and the way it looked -- you can see there was a bit of planning that went into creating this camp and you can see the houses lining the streets, parks, all sorts of buildings for schools and churches. you have a pond in the middle. here is a photograph as well. villages became the destination of missionaries and benevolent workers and relief workers from the north who helped establish these churches and schools and sent copious amounts of supplies to help these freedom seeking read and write. most important, a couple groups, quakers from philadelphia and richmond, indiana moving south. organizationtarian coming out of new york which sent large numbers of missionaries into the south. altogether, this was, as some historians have suggested, the greatest slave rebellion in american history. at the very least it was a migration of 500,000 men, women, and children. that's 18 of the enslaved population in 1860 hit the road to seek freedom. a migratio

the washington post says many of the schools named after confederate general robert e. lee are considering ways to rebrand themes. the papers said many of the schools are choosing other people to honor, who happen to have the last name of lee. some of the modern choices so far have been stan lee, the creator of marvel complices, and director spike lee. others are dropping the first name. and the initial, they're using lee as a shorthand for legacy of educational excellence. >>> dmv offices statewide will be closed for several hours next month, so that workers can learn how to expedite applications. all dmv field offices, commercial drive centers and industry centers will be closed until 1:00 p.m. on july 24th. officials said the train suggest needed because the real id applications are more complex and take more time to process. >>> transit center getting ready to reopen next week. by testing its public address system. last night, that test involved several flashing lights. it wont on for 10 minutes. the transit center closed 8 months ago, after crews found cracks in the bu

a rally of white nationalists protesting plans to remove the statue of a confederate general, robert e lee one of the counter—protesters, heather heyer, and injured others. as a result of this act of domestic terrorism that was charged as 29 hate crimes, a united states district judge this afternoon determined that mr fields deserved to spend the rest of his life in federal prison and imposed that sentence. he avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty to 29 counts of hate crime and apologised for the hurt and loss he'd caused. miss heyer‘s parents were present at the sentencing. they said they forgave mr fields but her mother susan said his case sent a strong message that there were consequences for hate crimes. the last time i saw my daughter was to identify her body and to sign the papers for her to be cremated. and i held her bruised hand and bruised arm and i said i'm gonna make this count for you. and that's what i've done. and i will continue to do. you don't get to knock my child down and silence that voice without 500 more raising up. the rally was a critical moment in the rise

robert lee. he spends a lot of time leading up to world war ii and during world war ii trying to turn robert e lee into a relevant figure for americans in the second world war. he talks about his military strategy and other ideas and plans he has. at oneuglas freeman point writes this essay, antique knowledges that lee is an important symbol. so is abraham lincoln. the power of abraham lincoln was so much that even somebody like douglas freeman had to moment,dge that at this the historical figure who seems most relevant to what we're doing is abraham lincoln. >> fdr being overly cautious, if you look at his results, it was the same in those states. people might vote for segregationist congressman and governors, but they adored fdr. >> i think you are right about that absolutely. one more? yes, i do have one more. >> this was a wonderful talk. i always thought fdr embraced jefferson more than lincoln. connect the two? i always felt that jefferson was more in the forefront than lincoln. >> jefferson was definitely important. fdr spoke at the dedication of the jefferson memorial in the 1930's. 1943.

schools across the country named after robert e. leehanging their names to disassociate themselves from the confederate general. there were about a hundred public schools named after the general. your thoughts on this? whitewashing the school's? >> laura: schools can do whatever they want. if they want to rename their schools, snoop dogg middle school, that's okay. okay, let's take lessons. >> isaac, respect the complexity and failings of individuals and teach people who these people are, i bet 90% of people don't know, arlington cemetery, noticed their property. that is important. but now there is a trend, in an effort to save money, these schools are looking for someone, anyone with the last name lee. property lee high school in north texas is now the legacy of educational excellence. lte. i thought you would provide them a few options. how about the bruce lee high school for excelling karate kids. >> laura: i love him. maybe stan lee, the great comic innovator. or sara lee, sweet and lovable and always available. >> laura: what one p

e lee. the two largest hiesz rsz robert e leeann jefferson david. live mid-19th century in this country. there are thousand of kfrt memorial across the south. we should stop talking about that doesn't make sense if you grow up and you're black and go to robert e. lee high or jefferson dafsz when i moved to montgomery you couldn't find the word slave or slavery anywhere in the city. we we were talking about history all the time. we haven't talked the history of native genocide and when did to native americans when europeans came. we haven't talked about slavery. and the narrative we haven't confronted. and because we haven't we see the horrific disparities. i just think we are not being honest. we believe in memory and memorial that's why we built the national memorial. we had the 9/11 traejd and we in a memorial in less than 15 years. i think that's good. but we haven't done anything to talk about what hppened to black people. >> what are people getting out of this -- now it's becoming a pilgrimage to the site literally a pilgrimage. what are peopli

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robert e lee took on that mantle once he achieved prominence after the first year. to begin with davis was seen in , those terms. he seemed like the right man for the job. there was the famous comment at his inauguration, the man of the hour is met. some of the prewar radicals certainly did not believe he was the right man for the job. i believe mainstream confederate opinion was he was the right man for the job. as to who else could have done it differently, there were not a lot of possibilities, partly because this was such a new undertaking for everyone, and partly due to the tension between the radicals who brought work, noion and the one trusted them to actually lead the revolution once it came real. davis was chosen specifically because he was a moderates. he served in franklin pierce of us this cabinet in the 1850's, served with distinction as a senator from mississippi. he neighbor -- he never came across as being one of the really hotheaded southern leaders. i do not think there were too many people around who could have done a better job. >> sir, how would

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robert e. lee.he feels about reparations and the answer may surprise you. also we'll talk about the central park 5. we have a group to talk about it. and how the president is saying it's a both sides issue. we talked about that sunday. >> reminiscent. good people on both sides. another ugly situation that he's trying to make a moral equivalence on. i'll see you tonight. so, donald trump. not president. called for the execution of the central park 5. so they were wrongly convicted so he is now ready to admit he was wrong. no. not even close. i want you to hear his explanation. it was indicative of his past and our present. the closing. next. your mammoth masterpiece. and...whatever this was. because we make our meat with the good of the deli and no artificial preservatives. make every sandwich count with oscar mayer deli fresh. bill's back needed a afvacation from his vacation. an amusement park... so he stepped on the dr. scholl's kiosk. it recommends our best custom fit orthotic to relieve foot, kn

he was part of a group of white supremist s protesting the removal of a statue of robert e. lee. one person killed and dozens injured. moments from the democratic debate have already made lasting impressions. here's one from joe biden. apparently, forgetting a question after being asked what would be his first issue after winning the presidency. >> vice president biden, your first issue, mr. vice president. >> the first thing i would do is make sure that we defeat donald trump. period. >> dana: all right. let's bring in fox nation host, tyrus to help us rank some of the moments from the last two nights. we even brought you this one. this is eric smallwell, congressman, talking about people being too old to run. watch. >> joe biden was right when he said it was time to pass the torch to a new generation of americans 32 years ago. he's still right today. >> dana: where do you put him? you didn't like it? >> can't president down the old guys. everyone is supposed to be treated equal and respected. >> dana: i don't think it worked. >> it's not gonna work. the guy's heart is in the ri

the washington post says many of the schools named after confederate general robert e. leering how to rebrand themselves. the paper says many schools are choosing other people to honor, who happen to have the last name of lee. some of the modern choices so far, have been stan lee, the creator of marvel comics and movie director, spike lee. other schools are dropping the first name and the initial and using lee has shorthand for legacy of educational excellence. >>> dmv will be closed for hours next month so workers can learn how to expedite licenses. they will be closed until 1:00 p.m. on july 24th. officials say more train suggest needed because real i.d. applications are more difficult to process. >>> spacex was for the most part a big success. >> three, two, one. zero. ignition. >> early this morning, the falcon-heavy rocket took off from kennedy space center in florida. it is the first flight of the falcon heavy at nighttime. the third launch overall. and it's the first time that cargo from the defense department was on that private space service. 24 research satellites

charlottesville, it was almost exactly the same time the united states congress made arlington the robert e. lee national memorial and the same time that the united states government put lee and jackson on a $.50 piece, a real $.50 piece, not just some collectors piece, but a real 50 set piece, the reverse of which pay tribute to confederate soldiers. the lee statue gave me a chance to talk about this much broader movement in the united states as you move towards the third decade of the 20th century, where robert e. lee really does achieve in sort of fruition a national icon. just a few years later, there was a dedicatory speech in dallas to a statue that dallas took down a few months ago. these are valuable teaching tools. they are complicated, in my view, and that is what i try to get at with this essay, to try to talk about this landscape that makes them complicated, which the past always is. if there is one thing you think you know about the past, i promise you, when you learn more about it, it is more complicated, but we use black and white now. there are a lot more shades of gray in these

muof reparations, speaking of the debts owed to people of color in this country, a descendant of robert e. lee'sxplain to us how he feels about reparations. and the answer may surprise you. will be on in just a bit. also we're going to talk about the central park 5. we've assembled a group to talk about the central park 5 and how this president is saying oh, it's a both sides issue. and you remember where he stood on that. we talked about that sunday when you were at my house. >> reminiscent. good people on both sides. another ugly situation that he's trying to make a moral equivalence on. don, that's some good booking. i'll see you tonight. >> see you. >> so donald trump. not president then. called for the execution of the central park 5. so they were wrongly convicted. so he is now ready to admit he was wrong. no. not even close. i want you to hear his explanation. it is indicative not of his past but of our present. the closing. next. on a john deere x300 series mower. because seasons change but true character doesn't. wow, you've outdone yourself this time. hey, what're neighbors for? it's b

but what i realized is a parallel story that comes with that the story of robert e-lee and this confederacy in the story of a lost cause those that are memorialized all across the country and the reason people find it so hard that the facts violate to the myth. you have to let go of all of these heroes. the black panther movie came out and there is a guy on twitter and he tweeted how happy he was. wakonda does not exist. [laughter] okay? this is like a big thing for him will condit does not exist. what is he here for? go see the movie. so black people have this involvement? and then going through his twitter feed. so the force is fine. . >> jedi's do not exist in black panther does not exist in what became clear of all the notice in the comics of that people object to people of color. because this disrupts they are myth. often times looking at the world of myth and symbolism isn't anything from politics but what i quickly realize is that i could not convince anybody of a basic rational level until the myth was attacked. if you believe in the myth of a lost cause and black people were happy

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washington to robert e lee high school.obody can tell me when i pulled boy tolde young white me i was the captain of the team, so you can't park there. i did not need to be bussed. i needed equal education. why did they have me leave the school i was in? all they had to do was of great it -- upgrade it. nobody illegal. aliens? who's hiring them? talkinge grown ass men about abortion, let's kill the rapists first. host: are you still there? caller: yeah. host: are you voting for joe biden? caller: joe biden, kamala harris, talking about bussing. voted for the people that made her education better set of worrying about the buzzing. host: chris, maryland, another democrat. caller: good morning. i did not watch the debates, but i did read about the debates yesterday, and i have been listening to c-span this morning. it seems like a lot of focus has been on the immigrant crisis. i don't think they are really focusing on the fact that this has been manufactured by our present administration. the policies have driven this crisis.

lee, --ly -- robert e all of these derogatory nicknames came from his inability to accomplish anything at all. he had two subordinates, i believe that they were former governors of virginia, who could not get along, and the confederate personalities that were clashing in the west virginia theater helped rosegrans overcome his difficulties. i touched on some of the other big ones, mclellan versus stanton. people.versus a lot of i think of the surgeon general, and the four union soldiers who suffered because a brilliant surgeon general was ushered out because stanton took a disliking to him. ament had the great idea that said that hadmond the great idea that taking mercury is not a good idea. this was an excuse to throw him out at least according to a recent biography. there are so many. there are more failed elation ships and great ones. -- failed relationships than great ones. >> any lists of failed relationships would have to have jefferson davis and joe johnson. >> i have wondered, and i had not thought about it until i was working on my book and saw how deep and early the divisions