President Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly on Monday night praised Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and said that “both sides” in the Civil War fought in good faith.
Kelly was speaking during an interview on Fox News when he made the comments, defending the historical significance of the Confederacy.
“Robert E. Lee was an honorable man. He was a man who gave up his country to fight for his state,” Kelly told the network about the Southern general in the bloody war between the North and the South.
The Civil War was fought after the South seceded from the Union mostly due to a disagreement over slavery.
“The lack of the ability to comprise led to the Civil War,” Kelly said.
I'm sorry, in the disagreement over whether or not it is right to own another human being, where is the compromise?
Black folks should only be slaves until age eighteen?
Or only every other black person should be owned by a white man?
This "good people on both sides" argument is of course the same one that Trump made after a white supremacist ran over protesters in Charlottesville, and several others were beaten and even shot at.
Apparently this is an official White House talking point when it comes to defending Confederate soldiers and their statues.
I had essentially given up on any idea that John Kelly had any integrity after he attacked and lied about Rep. Frederica Wilson, and this own proves that I was right to do so.
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