About Time!

@Oster1 President Roosevelt was also the most prolific environmentalist President in history.......go figure.🤔

@Oster1 Trust you to not know why the Roosevelt statue was toppled. I guess Sean Hannity explained it to you.

@LeopoldBloom I will respect your right to say such a statement. What I wrote is indisputable. If you are understudied in the history, I can forgive that. Your vile and vapid remarks have absolutely no effect on me. Thank you, for showing your ignorance.

@MarmeeMarch Slander, all you want. I wouldn’t expect anything more.
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@MarmeeMarch Take your meds, you are absolutely out of your mind. Most of you are way out of my league. Obviously you can’t read. Sad.

@MarmeeMarch Project much, Marmee?

@MarmeeMarch Still projecting, Marmee?

@Oster1 I never said anything against Roosevelt. The statue was removed because it presents a colonialist viewpoint that isn't representative of Roosevelt's own beliefs.

@LeopoldBloom The American Indian and the African were meant to portray guides from the two continents. That was very symbolic in his beliefs and how he lived his life. He believed this.

He actually founded the Progressive Party.

George Washington Carver and Booker T Washington were very close friends and advisers and frequently visited the White House. Roosevelt appointed the first black female Regional Post Master in the Postal Service. He was quite supportive and empathetic to the Black plight at the time. He elevated many minorities. Please study, “ Theadore Roosevelt and the Square Deal.

He established the most National Parks, bird sanctuaries and many, many environmental initiatives. More than any other. He was a true outdoorsmen.

Removing his statue was blatant ignorance and misguided. That was my point.

It’s disgusting to me how ignorant people are, about our history and shamelessly use that as a political tool but the worse is denying a true American hero of minorities and too minorities.

Minorities would be very proud of him if they knew how he really was but no, continue to further the false narrative of White Supremacists! Divide and conquer.

Please read his quotes, writings , speeches, etc. No one was more prolific.

I was insulted by your comment but I never let things bother me though.

I will continue to help, be kind and respectful of all until I’m treated differently. I appreciate your heart(olive branch) and forgive.

As far as I’m concerned, we are cool.

@LeopoldBloom Well, that is still very shortsighted and wrong to do. He was never a Colonialist!

These fools have another agenda. Same with Robert E Lee. He despised slavery and was ashamed of it and personally never owned one.. He displayed kindness to his fellow man, all his life. He was very religious and believed in it. Read the story of one Sunday morning when a black gentleman showed up at the doors of the church and how he quickly rose up and walked back to escort him to his pew. There are many other stories and examples.

Robert E Lee was humiliated by the Federal Government and stripped of his assets, of which was his Father in laws farm. Now the Arlington National Cemetery.

Many Civil War figures have been disparaged and so unfairly but that is another story.

@LeopoldBloom Well, you absolutely implied that, through me.

@Oster1 You're incorrect about Lee not owning slaves. He not only owned slaves, but was unusually cruel to them. Here's what his slave Wesley Norris said about how Lee treated him after his escape and recapture:

“When we were sent back to Arlington; we were immediately taken before Gen. Lee, who demanded the reason why we ran away; we frankly told him that we considered ourselves free; he then told us he would teach us a lesson we never would forget; he then ordered us to the barn, where, in his presence, we were tied firmly to posts by a Mr. Gwin, our overseer, who was ordered by Gen. Lee to strip us to the waist and give us fifty lashes each, excepting my sister, who received but twenty; we were accordingly stripped to the skin by the overseer, who, however, had sufficient humanity to decline whipping us; accordingly Dick Williams, a county constable, was called in, who gave us the number of lashes ordered; Gen. Lee, in the meantime, stood by, and frequently enjoined Williams to lay it on well, an injunction which he did not fail to heed; not satisfied with simply lacerating our naked flesh, Gen. Lee then ordered the overseer to thoroughly wash our backs with brine, which was done.”

@LeopoldBloom I do not believe this to be accurate. Can you provide a link just to help in my research? Gen. Lee often wrote about how he felt about his”father in law’s” slaves. He felt it to be not righteous and against God’s will. He abhorred slavery. There are many historical references.

@LeopoldBloom I have been researching. This account of REL, is laughable. Even the way it’s worded and the narrative is complete theater and drama, even ridiculous. Nice try but the judges rule fail, “buzzer sounds”!!!

As usual, I will stand by my comments............next?😁

@Oster1 Lee also failed to free the slaves when he took over the plantation he inherited from his father-in-law George Washington Parke Custis, despite the clause in Custis' will specifying that his slaves were to be freed upon his death. Lee's treatment of the slaves nearly led to a revolt. Lee also sold off slaves to such a degree that only one intact family remained on the plantation by the time the Civil War began.

However, regardless of Lee's personal feelings about the institution, the fact that he freely chose to defend the Confederacy, which was established for the sole purpose of perpetuating slavery, makes any equivocation worthless. Lee will be forever remembered for his efforts in perpetuating the right of white people to own Black people and work them to death for profit.

The flowery language of Norris' account is typical of writing at that time. The other option would have been for someone to transliterate it into fake Black vernacular, i.e. "Dat massa Lee done whupped us fo' runnin' off," another current style. The fact that you find the account unbelievable because of how it's written doesn't mean it didn't happen.

@MarmeeMarch It must be strange for you to see two people engaging in an intelligent discussion with minimal insults.