Descendant Of Confederate Leader Robert E. Lee Campaigns To Remove Monuments Of Racism
Rev. Robert W. Lee, a distant relative of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, spoke out on his ancestor and how he is changing the narrative surrounding his family. Make no mistake, he wants people educated on his family’s history in an “honest” way, he told CNN. He just doesn’t want the general celebrated. In a recent Monument Lab survey, Robert E. Lee came up as the sixth-most represented figure across the nation with 48,000 statues and plaques to commemorate him. When Rev. Lee was young, he was proud to have a famous ancestor and even had a confederate flag hanging in his bedroom. He credits So...