The Washington Post reports:
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he had a “visceral reaction against” the removal of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s statue in Charlottesville.
Speaking to podcast host Tim Pool in a “Timcast IRL” episode Friday, Kennedy — who is mounting a long-shot bid for the White House — said he doesn’t think “it’s a good, healthy thing for any culture to erase history,” when asked for his thoughts on the removal of Confederate monuments around the country.
“I have a visceral reaction against, against the attacks on those statues,” he said. “There were heroes in the Confederacy who didn’t have slaves and, you know, I just, I just have a visceral reaction against destroying history. I don’t like it. I think we should celebrate who we are.”
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This is f*cking insane!!!@RobertKennedyJr on the dismantling of Confederate monuments.
“I have a visceral reaction against the attack on those statues… I know that there were heroes in the Confederacy who didn’t have slaves.”
“Clearly Robert E. Lee had extraordinary… pic.twitter.com/rtjQ58NoeO
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) May 25, 2024