Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

George Washington was a slave owner, and according to this article from the Smithonian, he resorted to tricky ways to bypass state laws that would have required him to free his slaves. 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/george-washington-used-legal-loopholes-avoid-freeing-his-slaves-180954283/


There is a concerted effort by historians to try to depict Washington in a favorable light, but there is no doubt that it was Lee who recognized the wrongfulness of slavery-not Washington. Lee freed his one slave and got his wife to free all her slaves before the Civil War began. And that is an absolute, unquestioned and undeniable fact. Washington, supposedly, rewrote his will 6 months before he died in 1799 ordering that his slaves be freed upon his wife's death. But, it didn't happen, and the authenticity of that will is hardly sacrosanct. Here is an article from the Philadelphia Observer which states that the story that Washington's false teeth were made from wood is a lie! They were made from the teeth of black slaves! Washington had teeth yanked from the mouths of black slaves so that dentures could be made for him. 

https://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/coard-george-washingtons-teeth-not-from-wood-but-slaves/article_f9f31911-bcdc-53ac-b86d-26aba781824d.html

Imagine the pain and agony and the misery that followed. Washington did that to them, but it was historians who concocted the story that his teeth were made from wood- anything to protect the image of George Washington, father of our country. 

There is absolutely no doubt that Robert  E. Lee expressed more awareness of the outrage that slavery was than Washington ever dreampt. He wrote this in 1856, so 5 years before the Civil War:

"There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil." 

Did Lee become an avid, outspoken abolitionist? No, he did not. But, he did more and said more against slavery than Washington did, and by a long shot.

So, the current plan to trash Robert E. Lee, if they're going to do it, they need to follow it through to its logical conclusion, which means that Washington has to go. The state of Washington must change its name. So does the city of Washington. And the Washington Redskins have to change their name, and not just the Redskins part, but the Washington part, which is just as offensive.

Anything less than that would be gross hypocrisy.