Robert E. Lee and the Radical Rewriting of Our History

https://ihr.org/audio_file/april2020lee

With host James Edwards and co-host Keith Alexander, Mark Weber talks in this 50-minute session of “The Political Cesspool” radio show, April 18, 2020, to talk about the drastic rewriting of American history in recent years, pushed by the “politically correct” mass media, politicians and educators. Perhaps the most striking expression of this campaign has been the tearing down of statues of Robert E. Lee, the great Confederate commander. For more than a century, Weber notes, Lee was widely esteemed as a man of exemplary honor, courage and character. “A nation of men of Lee’s caliber would be unconquerable in spirit and soul,” wrote President Eisenhower in a 1960 letter explaining why “I proudly display a picture of this great American in on my office wall.” All healthy and enduring nations have regarded the traits that Lee personified as important virtues. That’s not at all the case in today’s America.