00:00Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida is trying to change its name from
00:04this stupid f***ing thing to something a little more suitable.
00:17Doesn't that alarm you that a seventh grader in 2021 cares more about ending racism than
00:23all of you do? Robert Lee was a slaveholder who believed black people were inferior to him,
00:28but it's okay to have him up there because black people are inferior.
00:31Is that what you're saying? Because that's what it sounds like.
00:42A lot of people say Robert E. Lee was a racist. That's a big lie.
00:45Let's find a better name for the school.
00:47Keep this name and this history alive.
00:50What is going on here is an indictment against the American education system
00:56because they did not teach you about the history of your own country.
01:00You don't know the history. You don't know when they lynched people,
01:04they cut parts of their bodies off and took pictures and made postcards out of it.
01:08And Lee supported that.
01:11Well, when I was in history class, I was taught that the chiefs of the tribes in Africa
01:17sold their people into slavery. If it had not been that way,
01:22there would not have been any slaves anywhere in America. Robert E. Lee or anybody else to have
01:28owned. So don't blame Robert E. Lee. Maybe you should be after your ancestors.
01:33If the school was named after a Golden State killer, what do you want to change it?
01:37What's the difference? Oh, wait, nothing.
01:40Changing the name does not affect the alumni. And if you think it does,
01:44and you're going to burn your yearbook, make sure you recycle it.
01:47Some say they are offended by the name.
01:49Guess what? I'm offended by those that want to take away the good name of this school.
01:53Well, what are they going to change it to? And I don't care.
01:56Anybody who didn't own slaves would be fined by me.
01:59Robert E. Lee was a slaver and a racist. Hard stop. Stop denying it.
02:04When you own people, you don't get forgiven.
02:07This issue is about Southern heritage. One of my best memories is Sunday dinner after church.
02:12We had some good conversations around that table. Lots of laughter, lots of jokes.
02:17And some of those jokes were about watermelon and about jungle music and big lips.
02:21And you know exactly what I'm talking about.
02:24I'm truly sorry to say I got my fair share of laughs in my younger days.
02:28So I know all about Southern heritage. So when you get up here and come with some BS reason
02:34to defend a man who owned people like they were livestock,
02:38you know exactly, I know exactly what you're talking about.
02:42Don't change the name. Why? Tradition. Loyalty. Family.
02:49I just find it funny. A lot of y'all have mentioned that all of this is about socialism,
02:53when none of you can probably even tell me what socialism is.
02:56This movement is an effort to change history. Ask yourself,
03:04who really started the division? Do the names George Soros, IMF, Illuminati ring a bell?
03:18Don't change our history. Don't cancel our culture and we won't cancel yours.
03:23This is communism at work.
03:25Robert E. Lee was a commander of the Federal Army during the United States' only civil war.
03:29He was a slave driver and a murderer.
03:32Thankfully, he was also a loser and slavery was abolished.
03:37This wiping out the culture, calling us white supremacy.
03:40I don't know where that's coming from. Robert E. Lee was a great general.
03:44We need to look at the wonderful things that he did do.
03:46When you start talking about Dr. King, what you do is you go back to the old stereotype
03:54that all black men want to do is have sex. And you know it's true.
04:00You know what you say in your homes at night.
04:02A short snippet of his life did not define him. Let's take a snippet of another leader,
04:07Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was a leader. He was an educator.
04:12He was a minister and a brilliant speaker. However, his snippet was women.
04:17He committed adultery and was a womanizer. So if you judge Dr. King,
04:21according to the standards of today, the Me Too movement would bounce him out the door.
04:26So why are we judging our ancestors for their snippets by today's standards?
04:30I heard a lot of racist things as I stood because I think some of you good people
04:35thought I was one of you, but I'm not. I'm here as someone who was reared in the deep south
04:41when George Wallace was governor and Bull O'Connor was doing what he did.
04:46You are speaking from your white culture and your white self.
04:51And I ask you, take a deep breath. And I want to say to the people of color in this room that I
05:00apologize as a white person of what has been said tonight because it's irreprehensible in my view.
05:07I say, change the name. We have to change the name.
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