Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
Ty Seidule
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Racism is the virus in the American dirt, infecting everything and everyone. To combat racism, we must do more than acknowledge the long history of white supremacy. Policies must change. Yet, an understanding of history remains the foundation. The only way to prevent a racist future is to first understand our racist past.”
“During the bloodiest war in American history, Lee and his comrades killed more U.S. Army soldiers than any other enemy, ever. And they did it for the worst reason possible: to create a nation dedicated to exploit enslaved men, women, and children, forever.”
“When people have no political outlet nor means of changing a racist society, rioting is their only voice.”
“The only way to prevent our racist future is to understand our racist past.”
“Racism is not only morally wrong, but fiscally stupid.9”
“In the aftermath of the war, Virginia led the South in creating and maintaining a police state based on racial control.”
“When we identify our history, we can change the narrative.”
“The only way to argue for slavery, then or now, is to believe that the enslaved weren’t real human beings.”
“Nothing I could say would refute his upbringing, his feelings, and his history. Then I realized evidence didn't matter; he had chosen his own facts based on his culture.”
“It bears repeating. Georgia was a racial police state, not a democracy.”
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Book Keywords:
racism, rioting, history, future
