Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denounced the removal of hundreds of Confederate statues and other monuments across the United States after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020.
While defending the statues, Mr. Kennedy also said that there were “heroes in the Confederacy who didn’t have slaves,” though when he later picked an example of a Confederate whom he idolized, he singled out Robert E. Lee, a prominent general in the rebel army who owned slaves.
“I have a visceral reaction against the attacks on those statues,” Mr. Kennedy said on the podcast, which was hosted by Tim Pool, a right-wing commentator.
Mr. Kennedy had been asked specifically about the removal of a statue of Lee in Charlottesville, Va., in 2021.
He added that “if we want to find people who are completely virtuous on every issue throughout history, we would erase all of history.”
Persons:
Robert F, Kennedy Jr, George Floyd, Kennedy, Donald J, Robert E, Lee, ” Mr, Tim Pool, Mr, ”
Organizations:
Libertarian National Convention, Trump
Locations:
United States, Minneapolis, Washington, Lee, Charlottesville, Va