The Local NAACP Chapter President James Muwakkil has written a letter to the Lee County Commissioners to remove a painting of late Confederate Army Gen. Robert E. Lee from a wall where it hangs above public meetings.
According to Lee County Staff the painting’s history dates to Feb. 6, 1929, when commissioners requested the assistance of Virginia legislators in obtaining a portrait of Lee.
Lee County was formed and named after the Confederate general in 1887, 32 years after the Civil War ended. Only the Florida Legislature can name counties.
In a letter to commissioners, Muwakkil stated that Lee fought for slavery; thus, his image stands contrary to contemporary beliefs in Lee County.
All the commissioners have deferred any discussion until the commissioners come back from their summer break.
Commissioners should defer any discussion on this matter FOREVER.
maybe the NAACP Chapter President James Muwakkil should leave history alone and maybe concentrate on getting the blacks from killing each other and getting more of them off welfare and out of jail…yet he has the time to worry about a picture of a general who is part of history. So if that is what he wants maybe he needs to change history another way..
History is history and we should leave it as it is. That is what makes history-history.It happened it is over, finished and done. We have moved forward, that is the purpose of life learn from the past and let it be a reminder of where to never go there again. We as people have to be the keepers of our community, work on ways to improve things not worry about that is in the past, involve the youth, stop the killings, educate the youth in all areas. Move forward but not by getting rid of the past but learning from it.