“Being related to the person whose statue has been used not only in Richmond but in other places as a sign of, as uplifting the cause of white supremacy rhetoric and action—I could not sit idly by and allow people to use that.” Robert W.
Lee IV is the great-great-great-great nephew of the confederate war general Robert E.
Lee.
He wants to see monuments dedicated to his ancestor taken down.
“I think our statues say a lot more about what we value rather than what we can learn.”
