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<p>[QUOTE="Kronos, post: 268900, member: 81"]But he was backing an institution that promoted kidnapping, enslavement, and murder on a large scale. People have every right to hate and detest that part of history. It's not like everything ended right after the Civil War either. The US really screwed up by waiting almost 100 more years to fix the problems of segregation and do something about state sponsored racism.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are still plenty of people alive who were treated as second class citizens in the South. Beaten, raped, falsely accused, with no justice to be had. There are still plenty of people who want the South to go back to those times, or even worse. They are using the Civil War and those statues as rallying points. Now they are becoming more vocal because of the idiot president we have. </p><p><br /></p><p>It's a shitty situation all around, but not surprising in the least.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kronos, post: 268900, member: 81"]But he was backing an institution that promoted kidnapping, enslavement, and murder on a large scale. People have every right to hate and detest that part of history. It's not like everything ended right after the Civil War either. The US really screwed up by waiting almost 100 more years to fix the problems of segregation and do something about state sponsored racism. There are still plenty of people alive who were treated as second class citizens in the South. Beaten, raped, falsely accused, with no justice to be had. There are still plenty of people who want the South to go back to those times, or even worse. They are using the Civil War and those statues as rallying points. Now they are becoming more vocal because of the idiot president we have. It's a shitty situation all around, but not surprising in the least.[/QUOTE]
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