“The president is now glorifying a loser,” Congressman James Clyburn pointed out on Sunday. “Robert E. Lee was a loser,” he asserted.
Democratic Congressman James Clyburn called out President Donald Trump for praising slave-owning Confederate General Robert E. Lee, pointing out that the president was praising the military commander of the losing side of this nation’s Civil War.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, who served under Barack Obama, officially announced his intention last week to seek the Democratic party’s presidential nomination to challenge Trump in 2020. In his campaign launch video, Biden highlighted the Charlottesville incident and the president’s response. Trump then shot back, defending his previous controversial comments.
“The fact of the matter is, Robert E. Lee was a great tactician, was not a great person,” the congressman explained. “Robert E. Lee was a slave owner and a brutal slave master. Thankfully, he lost that war.” “The president is now glorifying a loser,” Clyburn pointed out on Sunday. “Robert E. Lee was a loser,” he asserted. “And even if you could get beyond that, at the end of the Civil War, Robert E. Lee asked all of his comrades to lay down their guns and to furrow those Confederate flags, and if my memory serves, ‘And put them in your attics.’”
Fans of Lee often argue that he disliked slavery, pointing to an out of context statement, in which he referred to slavery as: “a moral & political evil.” However, when the full passage is read, it reveals that the Confederate general believed that white people were superior to African Americans, and that slavery was necessary to educate and improve “the black race.”
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