Reply #22: Why should it be changed?

[UofIDem]

I'm not understanding the outcry against schools being named for historic famed military generals. A majority of Southern generals were not fighting to continue slavery, most didn't even care. In fact, there are substantial arguments that slavery was not even a substantial issue in starting the Civil War. Certainly I can understand the view that the Confederate Flag is divisive, but Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackeson etc...are were American war heroes before they became confederate generals and even so, they represent a substantial part of history. Those men are symbols of perserverence, bravery, creativity, and honor. Why should their good qualities, ones I would want my children to learn and live be cast aside because a byproduct (albeit a morally repugnant one) of their unrealized victory would have been something that many of them, Robert E. Lee most vocally, didn't even care about.