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Thu Aug 17, 2017, 08:35 AM Aug 2017

Lee's great-great grandson fine with removing Confederate statues

Charles Ventura, USA TODAY
Published 9:04 p.m. ET Aug. 16, 2017 | Updated 9:46 p.m. ET Aug. 16, 2017

... "Eventually, someone is going to have to make a decision, and if that's the local lawmaker, so be it," Robert E. Lee V, 54, said, CNN reported. "But we have to be able to have that conversation without all of the hatred and the violence. And if they choose to take those statues down, fine" ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/08/16/robert-e-lee-confederate-statue/574876001/

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Lee's great-great grandson fine with removing Confederate statues (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2017 OP
Wonderful statement and good it is in USA Today so it will have a large audience. SharonClark Aug 2017 #1
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