A North Carolina pastor briefly gained national prominence 2-years ago when he publicly denounced the appalling Nazi and white supremacy marches in Charlottesville, Virginia. A not-much-remarked irony is that Pastor Robert W. Lee is a distant descendant of the iconic Confederate general whose statue was at the center of the ruckus, Robert E. Lee. Even less remarked, thanks to the press of events and the First Felon’s more prominent failure of leadership and ordinary decency, is that the church he pastored fired him because, as everybody knows, Jesus was a white guy and nigras are the descendants of Ham, or Cain maybe, but definitely not worth ‘saving.’
Apparently, Pastor Lee didn’t know that the brave Tarheel pastors who supported the civil rights movement were routinely fired, sometimes burned in effigy, and beaten on a few occasions.
Now he’s out with a book, A Sin by Any Other Name.
Good luck to him … and I hope his publisher knows better than to bother scheduling North Carolina venues on his book tour.