Irony
Scripture explains, might I add very clearly, that from one blood God created every nation (Acst 17:26). Every person who has ever and will ever live, is connected by blood. However, there are those who refuse to understand the equality of man. They hold to tyranny of the majority over the minority. I do not understand why the majority, while powerful in numbers, must oppress the minority? Does this not contradict biblical principle? That which bothers me the most, is the relationship supremacist try to espouse between themselves and the gospel. What a total contradiction. They suppose their cause may seem justified by hiding behind the walls of religion. While there are many other instances of corruption that could be sited, let us focus on one particular icon supremacist adore and hold in high regard. Many supremacist view Robert E Lee as an iconic father figure and use his image to represent their ideology. How much farther from the truth can one be. Let is be suggested, if Robert E Lee was alive today, he would have nothing to do with supremacist and would eschew their cause. Those who do such, do not know nor understand the greatest general of all time. Robert E Lee was not a racist! He opposed slavery and owned no slaves of his own. The slaves he inherited, he freed. This can be seen in the following statements from historians:
“Robert E. Lee vigorously opposed slavery and as early as 1856 made this statement: “There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.” Lee also knew that the use of slaves was coming to an end. Cyrus McCormick’s 1831 invention of the mule-drawn mechanical reaper sounded the death knell for the use of slave labor. Before the Civil War began, 250,000 slaves had already been freed.”
“Robert E. Lee did not own slaves, but many Union generals did. When his father-in-law died, Lee took over the management of the plantation his wife had inherited and immediately began freeing the slaves. By the time Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, every slave in Lee’s charge had been freed. Notably, some Union generals didn’t free their slaves until the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868.”
Further more, Robert E Lee gives us an insight as to where he stood concerning slavery in this excerpt from a letter to president Pierce, prior to the war:
“The doctrines and miracles of our Savior have required nearly two thousand years to convert but a small portion of the human race, and even among Christian nations what gross errors still exist! While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is still onward, and give it the aid of our prayers, let us leave the progress as well as the results in the hands of Him who, chooses to work by slow influences, and with whom a thousand years are but as a single day.”
NEED I SAY MORE
Adam Comeaux