Why would Charlottesville racists do so much to protect a Robert E. Lee statue?
(LA Times Dodgers)

This is all over a statue, say the white supremacists who gathered in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend. They claim that they sought to preserve an oxidized likeness of the traitor Robert E. Lee, still sitting 26 feet tall atop a stone pedestal in a local park that was once named after him....