[quote=@Inkarnate]
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I love Robert E. Lee as a historical figure, but he was a lot more complicated than that. He also believed that blacks shouldn’t have the vote, were [i]inferior[/i] to white men and women, and by some accounts was ruthless with how he treated his father’s slaves for a time. He was also a spiteful and petty man, just not in regards to the victory of the Union over the Confederacy. While I agree that the near-sighted perspective of history by the ignorant and uneducated is an issue you cannot just hand-waive all of Lee's problematic issues because he was against confederate statues and the few positive views he had on blacks.
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He believed they shouldn't vote because they were uneducated, not because they were black, which is why he sought for them to have an education. And I have seen no hard evidence to suggest he was anymore near-sighted when it came to race than anyone else (granted, even most Northerners back then were very racist. There was a reason why the civil rights movement had to happen a century later), especially since those slaves whom he freed seem to hold complete loyalty for him afterwards. Though yes, he could definitely be petty from some of his quotes. 

I never claimed he was a perfect man, but there was a reason for former Slaves such as Mack Lee held him in awe, and there were also reasons he wasn't hung as a traitor when the war ended, but was allowed to live in peace, and even had a voice in politics. I'm just against people making him synonymous with a mustache twirling villain when he very much was not.