Pentagon is reinstalling portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that includes a slave
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A portrait of General Confederate Robert E Lee who includes a slave guiding his horse should be reinstated in the Pentagon.
The 20-feet high painting, which was exposed to the United States Military Academy for 70 years, will be suspended from the West Point library under the investigation of President Trump despite a commission mandated by the congress which ordered its withdrawal in 2020.
“In West Point, the United States Military Academy is ready to restore the names, artefacts and historical assets of their form and their place of origin,” said army communications director Rebecca Hodson, New York Times. “Under this administration, we honor our history and learn from it – we do not erase it.”
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The commemorative monuments to General Lee, a former commander of the Confederate Army and owner of slaves, have long proved controversial. Several monuments to Confederate leaders such as Lee have been suppressed in recent years by activists who consider them a celebration of white supremacy.
The law which led to the abolition of painting was adopted during the first term of Trump, when a key senatorial committee adopted a defense policy of $ 741 billion in contempt of the president.
Proposed by Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, he forced the Ministry of Defense to remove all the names, symbols, exhibitions, monuments and accessories that have honored or commemorated the Confederate States of America, as well as any person who served voluntarily with the Confederate States of America.
Against the wishes of Trump, the Pentagon was forced to rub the names of the monuments and the paraphernalia honoring the Confederation and its leaders of the bases and military assets.
Since his return to the White House, Trump has decided to reverse a number of these decisions.
Speaking in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in June, Trump said that he would also restore the names of Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort AP Hill, as well as Fort Robert E. Lee.
In 2023, Fort Lee was redesigned with Fort Gregg-Adams to commemorate African-American veterans, Lieutenant-General Arthur J. Gregg and Lieutenant-Colonel Charity Adams, after previous proposals for the name change.
“During the history of the United States, these locations have taken a meaning for American history and those who helped write it that transcends their homonyms from afar,” said Trump.
He planned the Congress Directive in 2020 as an “attempted political motivation to wash history and dishonor the immense progress for our country to achieve our founding principles.”
