There is “no evidence” that a North Carolina pastor, who claimed to be a descendent of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and used his family heritage to speak out against statues honoring Confederate generals, is in any way related to the erstwhile military leader, according to The Washington Post’s fact-checker.
The Rev. Rob Lee, who spoke out against Confederate monuments across the south and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, when the embattled governor announced he was removing a monument to Robert E. Lee from a boulevard in Richmond, Virginia, “is not related to the general,” according to several outlets.
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