A Confederate book was open to a racist passage in a GOP congressman's office. He blamed his staff.

[Judi Lynn]

A page from the book “Gen. Robert Edward Lee: Soldier, Citizen, and Christian Patriot” that was on display in the Capitol Hill office of Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.). (Photo courtesy of the American Federation of Government Employees)


By Reis Thebault February 13 at 10:54 PM

Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.) has removed from his office a biography of Robert E. Lee, which was previously displayed there under a glass case and opened to a page highlighting the Confederate general’s racist ideology.

In a statement to The Washington Post, Ferguson, who occupies one of his party’s top posts in the House, blamed the book’s presence on his staff, who he said decorated his office. Ferguson said he didn’t know the book was there until members of the American Federation of Government Employees, who were visiting congressional offices on Monday, asked about it.

The book, titled “Gen. Robert Edward Lee: Soldier, Citizen, and Christian Patriot,” was opened to a page that trumpeted proslavery beliefs, reading in part, “The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially, and physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their instruction as a race, and, I hope, will prepare and lead them to better things.”

James Miller, a representative of AFGE Local 554 and one of Ferguson’s constituents, was among the group that spotted the book in his congressman’s office and said he was “at a loss for words” when he saw it.

More:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/14/confederate-book-was-open-racist-passage-gop-congressmans-office-he-blamed-his-staff/



Rep. Drew Ferguson

[Renew Deal]

1. It's difficult to argue that anyone that fought for the confederacy was a "patriot"

[czarjak]

2. Drew wants you to hold a beer...

[Aristus]

3. Another poster boy for the 'personal responsibility' Republicans...

[RockRaven]

4. There's a book in a glass case in a room you're in 3-5 days/week and you don't know it is there? BS!

That is bulls--t!!!

This asshole is a F--KING COWARD!!!

Own up to your choices. You have a book in a f--king glass case in your office and you are going to pretend it has nothing to do with you? F--k off!!! You're a bloated racist pice of s--t whose cowardice would shame even the racist, murderous, traitorous asshole you pretended to admire!!!

[Botany]

6. Selling "the Good Old Bobby Lee line" but in truth Lee was a bastard.

When two of his slaves escaped and were recaptured, Lee either beat them himself or ordered the overseer to "lay it on well." Wesley Norris, one of the slaves who was whipped, recalled that “not satisfied with simply lacerating our naked flesh, Gen. Lee then ordered the overseer to thoroughly wash our backs with brine, which was done.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/

"There's a book in a glass case in a room you're in 3-5 days/week and you don't know it is there?" Just
like that Trump had copies of Hitler's speeches by his bed according to his first wife but when asked about
it he said something like, "I might have had them but I never read them."

[dalton99a]

5. Kick