(For my illiterate readers and anyone who gets his news from MSNBC: That makes Lee the opposite of a "traitor." A traitor is someone who pretends to be on your side, while secretly working with the enemy, not someone who loudly announces, I quit. My friends and I are leaving.)
"My ancestors were Presbyterian abolitionists who fought on the Union side, but I get really ticked off when imbeciles take a sledgehammer to my country's history.
"Last week, with self-satisfied glee, savages tore down the 14-foot statue of Robert E. Lee designed by the French sculptor Antonin Mercie and installed in 1890 on land deeded to the state -- in return for a promise that the Commonwealth of Virginia "will hold said Statue and pedestal and Circle of ground perpetually sacred to the Monumental purpose to which they have been devoted and that she will faithfully guard it and affectionately protect it.". . .
(Here we skip over Coulter's expressed distaste for President Trump - deserved or not. TD)
. . . "But Lee, not Davis, held the hearts of his countrymen. When one of Lee's own officers urged him to lead a guerilla war against the North, Lee remonstrated, "as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation; these men must go home and plant a crop, and we must proceed to build up our country on a new basis.' " . . .
. . . "The vandalizing of American history has absolutely nothing to do with black people or slavery. Lots of historical figures had slaves. Not only American heroes like Washington and Jefferson, but Kamala Harris' ancestors -- according to her own father. Barack Obama is the only president who might be descended from slave traders, a particularly repellent group, inasmuch as Kenya was a major player in the slave trade."
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