It's time we honor the ones who were right: Richard Cohen
(NEWSER) - Robert E. Lee was a brilliant general, but he "commanded a vast army that, had it won, would have secured the independence of a nation dedicated to the proposition that white people could own black people and sell them off, husband from wife, child from parent, as the owner saw fit," writes Richard Cohen in the Washington Post . Yet this man has become legend, with streets and schools named after him all across the South. It's time to remember who Lee truly was—someone "loyal to slavery and disloyal to his country"—and recognize that we cannot admire such a man. More»
