A portrait of Confederate general Robert E Lee that includes a slave guiding his horse is set to be reinstated in the Pentagon.

The 20-foot-tall painting, which was on display at the United States Military Academy for 70 years, will be hung in the West Point library under President Trump’s instruction despite a congressionally mandated commission that ordered its removal back in 2020.

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    17 hours ago

    The MAGAs don’t even try to hide it. When DeSatan was announcing his "Anti-Woke"standards in Florida schools, he flat out said he didn’t want white kids learning things that would make them ashamed to be white. It may be the most racist thing I’ve ever heard come out of of a politicians mouth. He didn’t bother to code his language AT ALL.

    I grew up a standard-issue white kid, and learned all about slavery and the Native American genocide, and it never made me “ashamed” to be white. Those things were horrible, but I didn’t do them, and I would never participate in such actions, and that’s the point. It isn’t about shaming whites for their history, it’s educating them properly so they don’t go down that path again.

    Obviously, we didn’t learn that lesson well enough in school, so we’re slipping back. This is the problem with not having Federal educational standards, and letting individual states prepare their own curriculums. Across 50 states, some will do it properly, but some will take the opportunity to compromise their vulnerable young students and feed them racist propaganda instead of a real education, and indoctrinate them into racist ideology.

    IF we can take our country back from the MAGA Nazis, we need to crack down HARD on anyone who insists that we keep the same educational structure that allows bad-faith states to use education as an excuse to indoctrinate. Just like we forced states to abide by Federal voting laws (until the MAGA SCOTUS ended it), we need to force intransigent states to educate their children properly. If they won’t do it, the responsibility will be removed, and handled by the Federal government.