Senator Tim Scott isn’t having Gen Kelly’s excuses and historical revisionism.
Sen. Tim Scott Responds To John Kelly: ‘No Compromise To Make’ On Civil War
The White House chief of staff said the war was caused by the inability to compromise.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) seemingly chided White House chief of staff John Kelly on Tuesday after the former Marine Corps general claimed that the Civil War was caused by the inability to compromise.
“We need to stop relitigating and referencing the Civil War as if there was some moral conundrum,” Scott, the sole black Senate Republican, said in a statement. “There was no compromise to make – only a choice between continuing slavery and ending it. We need to move forward together, instead of letting the divisions of the past continue to force us apart.”
Kelly on Monday said a “lack of ability to compromise led to the Civil War” and called the removal of Confederate monuments a “dangerous” scrubbing of history. The senior Donald Trump aide made the comments during an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, who asked his thoughts about the removal of two plaques honoring President George Washington and Gen. Robert E. Lee at a church in Alexandria, Virginia.
“I would tell you that Robert E. Lee was an honorable man,” Kelly said during the interview.
“He was a man that gave up his country to fight for his state, which, 150 years ago, was more important than country,” he added. “It was always loyalty to state first back in those days. Now it’s different today. But the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War. And men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had to make their stand.”
A number of U.S. historians have criticized Kelly’s comments about the Civil War, calling them “strange,” “sad,” and “wrong.” Stephanie McCurry, a history professor at Columbia University, told The Washington Post that Kelly’s comments echoed talking points of a “pro-Confederate view of the Civil War.”
lkeke35
November 1, 2017 at 12:32 PM
Once again we get white map revisionist who completely remove black People from the discussion as if we had nothing at all to do with. Slavery as an institution was untenable as there were already some wide cracks in its facade large enough for educated blacks to slip through. It eventually would have failed. The Civil War just sped it up.
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lkeke35
November 1, 2017 at 12:32 PM
Correction: White male revisionists
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