Geraldo couldn’t have had in his mind, during his tweet, that their are some trivial differences in their involvements of racism in order to compare both Robert E. Lee and Erwin Rommel. Not defending these two unjust killers, but the alternate facts Right idiots, as well as Geraldo Rivera, like to pick and choose from history to what fit their bigoted views/sentiments. His Rommel’s “untarnished by the sins of his brothers” could just be an excuse for an admired warrior, who became the “tool” of a maniacal leader. At the very, very least, waking from the Nazi delusion and nearing humiliating defeat, Rommel sought redemption to save his country in a conspiracy to assassinate the Fuhrer to end the atrocities that he was authorized to commit. He was, of course, eliminated by the paranoid mass killer.
Lee? He was born a racist, and breed as one. As a West Point trained general, he chose the racist side to play the “superiority fight.” GOOD defeated him, so he should’ve been hanged, but saved by a West Point fella, Gen Grant. He, then, went to conspire to stop Reconstruction to such effect that spurned the continued legacy of racism that’s still hunting us–now with a coward racist at the White House. Doesn’t that make you wonder why there are more Lee statues in the country than both Grant and Lincoln combined?