The Trump administration is still on its pro-Confederacy crusade, this time by promising to “honor” Gen. Robert E. Lee by rehanging his portrait in the West Point Library.

According to The New York Times, it was revealed Friday that the Trump administration will restore the Lee portrait at the famed military academy after Congress mandated that it be removed.

“Under this administration, we honor our history and learn from it—we don’t erase it,” Rebecca Hodson, communications director for the Army, told the Times.

Lee was the overall commander of the Confederate Army, which operated in service of the illegal breakaway Confederacy, waging war against the United States. The Confederacy was explicitly formed to preserve the practice of slavery.

For more than 250 years, millions of Black pe

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