Wesley Hunt warns US is ‘doomed to repeat’ history if statues are removed

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Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) advocated for keeping Confederate statues and namesakes to remember how far the United States has evolved from its history.

Hunt defended such memorials while on Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night. Host Bill Maher asked what he thought of such tributes as a black graduate of West Point, where he lived in the barracks named after Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who fought on behalf of the states that were seceding from the Union over the subject of slavery.

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