ROBERT E LEE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A DICK, BUT SOME OF HIS
DESCENDENTS ARE NOT.
ONE OF HIS DESCENDENTS DECIDED TO SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER DURING
THE MTV MUSIC AWARDS, AS A RESULT HE IS FACING SO MUCH
CRITICISM FROM THE PARISHIONERS OF THE CHURCH HE WORKS AT
THAT HE DECIDED TO STEP DOWN.
IF YOU CAN RECALL, HE WENT UP ON STAGE WITH HEATHER HEYER'S
MOTHER,
THE VICTIM AND THE HATE RALLY WERE A WHITE PREMISES
DECIDED TO RUN A BUNCH OF COUNTER PROTESTERS OVER.
DURING
THE SPEECH HERE IS WHAT THE PASTOR
HAD TO SAY.
APPARENTLY
SOME OF HIS PARISHIONERS ABSOLUTELY HATED THAT
SPEECH AND HAVE BEEN CRITICIZING HIM VEHEMENTLY SINCE AND HE
HAS DECIDED TO STEP DOWN FROM THAT CHURCH.
HE DID RELEASE A STATEMENT, IT READS AS FOLLOWS.
HE CONTINUED TO SAY THIS.
HE SAYS HE REGRETS THAT ALL HIS SPEAKING OUT LED TO THIS.
BUT HE IS INCREDIBLE.
I WISH THAT HE DIDN'T STEP DOWN, BECAUSE AS HE SAYS IT IS A
FRACTION OF HIS CHURCH.
IF HE IS THE PASTOR AT THAT CHURCH, PEOPLE LOOK UP TO
HIM AND HE IS AN IMPORTANT VOICE.
BUT I GIVE HIM A LOT OF CREDIT FOR STICKING TO HIS GUNS
AND STANDING BY WHAT HE SAID.
>>THE ORIGINAL ROBERT E LEE WAS A COMPLICATED CHARACTER.
BUT HE DID LEAD THE ARMIES OF CONFEDERACY IN HIGH TREASON
AGAINST THE UNITED STATES.
THEIR JOB WAS TO PROTECT SLAVERY.
THEY WERE FIGHTING FOR SLAVERY.
HIS DESCENDENT HERE IS IN A SENSE NOT AS COMPLICATED.
HE IS JUST ON THE RIGHT SIDE.
I FAIL TO SEE HOW CONTROVERSIAL IT IS EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT I
THINK HIS PARISHIONERS ARE DICKS.
IF YOU HAVE A SMALL
PERCENTAGE OF THE CHURCH WHO ARE LOUDMOUTHS, THE REST OF THE
LEADERS OF THE CHURCH WILL PUT THAT DOWN.
THEY ARE REBELLING AGAINST THIS PASTOR BECAUSE HE IS
AGAINST WHITE SUPREMACY.
LET THAT SINK IN FOR A SECOND.
EVEN IF YOU WERE A TRUMP VOTER, AND YOU HATE BLACK LIVES
MATTER, FIRST OF ALL EDUCATE YOURSELF.
BLACK LIVES MATTER SAYS OUR LIVES SHOULD MATTER AS WELL.
IT IS NOT TO TRY TO GET ANY MORE RIGHTS THAN ANY OTHER PEOPLE.
>> YOU ARE TRYING TO REASON WITH WHITE SUPREMACISTS.
THEY DON'T DISLIKE BLACK LIVES MATTER BECAUSE THEY WERE
MISLED INTO BELIEVING IT IS SOME TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.
THEY DON'T BELIEVE BLACK LIVES MATTER.
IT IS THAT SIMPLE?
>> WHAT ARE THE OTHER THINGS YOU ARE AGAINST IT?
SUPPORTING A
HEATHER HEYER?
SO THEY DON'T AGREE WITH YOU POLITICALLY I
PRESUME, WOMEN MARCHING IS AND ALSO A PROBLEM?
THEY ARE BAD PEOPLE.
THIS GUY, THE DEFENDANT, HAD TO SAY FOR THIS I OFFER MY
HEARTFELT APOLOGY.
I UNDERSTAND MY VIEWS CAN BE CONSIDERED TO BE CONTROVERSIAL.
THEY ARE NOT THAT CONTROVERSIAL.
JUST BECAUSE FOX NEWS DOESN'T LIKE THEM.
THERE IS ENOUGH OF THEM TO WANT TO KICK YOU OUT BECAUSE YOU
ARE AGAINST WHITE SUPREMACY.
THAT IS HORRIFIC.
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE PRETENDING TO BE FOR JESUS CHRIST?
PEOPLE
ARE DISGUSTING.
THEN DON'T CALL YOURSELVES CHRISTIANS.
JUST SAY WE ARE THE CHURCH OF RACISM AND BE IN FAVOR OF THAT.
YOU GUYS ARE DICKS.
YOUR PASTOR HAPPENS TO BE A DECENT PERSON AND YOU DROVE
THEM OUT OF YOUR COMMUNITY.
>>THE REASON WHY I GIVE HIM CREDIT IS BECAUSE
OFTENTIMES PEOPLE MAKE EXCUSES FOR THOSE WHO ARE HATEFUL
BECAUSE THEY SAY THEY ARE A PRODUCT OF THEIR ENVIRONMENT.
THINK ABOUT THE FACT THAT HE IS A DESCENDENT OF SOMEONE WHO
FOUGHT TOOTH AND NAIL TO MAINTAIN SLAVERY IN THE
UNITED STATES.
HE WAS PREACHING IN A CHURCH WHERE SOME PORTION OF THE
PARISHIONERS BELIEVE IN THIS TYPE OF HATRED, AND HE
STILL WAS AN INDEPENDENT THINKER AND KNEW RIGHT FROM WRONG
AND SPOKE TRUTH TO POWER.
TO ME, THAT SAYS A LOT.
>> NO ONE THINKS THAT WHITE LIVES SHOULD NOT MATTER.
NO ONE THINKS THAT COPS SHOULD RANDOMLY SHOOT UNARMED
WHITE PEOPLE, THAT IS INSANE.
NO ONE THINKS THAT MEN SHOULD NOT HAVE RIGHTS ONLY WOMEN
SHOULD.
THE ONLY THING THAT WE ASK FOR IS EQUAL RIGHTS FOR EVERY
PERSON, NO MATTER WHAT THEIR RACE OR RELIGION IS.
THAT SHOULD BE THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL PART OF OUR
CONSTITUTION AND OUR COUNTRY.
JUST ADMIT IT AND STOP HIDING
BEHIND WHATEVER THE HELL YOU ARE
HIDING BEHIND.
YOU JUST FIRED THIS GUY BASICALLY AND DROVE THEM
OUT OF TOWN BECAUSE HE DOES NOT BELIEVE IN WHITE SUPREMACY.