Where is The Outrage

Regarding monuments, slaves and Civil War generals, folks should be reminded that slaves were brought here in the first place to labor at work no one else wanted to do, the same as today in the case of legal and illegal immigrants from our southern border. However, most people are not concerned about their food and housing ... and don't forget the exploitation of people (particularly women), in the "human trafficking" trade. So where is the outrage?

In the cemetery of the church, I once attended in the town of Urbana located in Frederick, Maryland, there is a mass grave of Irish immigrants who died digging the C & O Canal. No one cared about their welfare because they did not have the same monetary value as slaves. There was and still is much money to be made in human exploitation.

And regarding Robert E.Lee's "treason of the highest form" ... the U.S. Constitution includes the right for States to secede. Lee was first recruited by Abraham Lincoln but felt it necessary to remain loyal to his home state of Virginia. Whatever his choice he would have ended up betraying one or the other. In that era, people's loyalty to their state ranked very high. The South paid a high price in destruction and devastation and Lincoln had Lee's land confiscated and turned into a burial ground now known as Arlington National Cemetery.

Many years after the Civil War, veterans from both sides gathered at Gettysburg, shook hands and sat down together. It was over and no one else needed to die because of it.

ALICE LAUGHLAND

From the Easton Star Democrat