In a speech in Atlanta on Tuesday, Joe Biden said, in urging the passage of various election law bills in the Senate: “Do you want to be the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?"
I have news for President Biden. Just because I don’t agree with him on those bills, doesn’t mean I am on Jefferson Davis’s side. When I was taking American history classes in high school in the mid-1960s, my heroes were Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. When I toured Tennessee in 1977, I went to the Shiloh and Chattanooga battlefields. In Virginia in 1997, I went to the Wilderness and Appomattox. When I returned to Virginia in 2002, I was appalled that streets and roads were still named after Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. When other people were telling me how noble Robert E. Lee was, I saw a man who had abandoned his country and committed treason.
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