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Pelosi just now: Portraits of four House speakers who served under Confederacy are being removed (Original Post) Mrs. Overall Jun 2020 OP
Thank you Speaker. spanone Jun 2020 #1
Good soothsayer Jun 2020 #2
Good. dalton99a Jun 2020 #3
Up your ass Moscow Mitch Botany Jun 2020 #4
I hope she teases him for wearing a mask soothsayer Jun 2020 #7
There's a kernel of truth in the lie. The stain can't be scrubbed out. Midnightwalk Jun 2020 #13
So Mitch's great great grand pappy fought to keep human beings as slaves and he is ... Botany Jun 2020 #14
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! fleur-de-lisa Jun 2020 #5
Post removed Post removed Jun 2020 #6
Democrat Party? soothsayer Jun 2020 #8
That always trips them up StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #12
Enjoy your stay Botany Jun 2020 #9
Here for months and this was their 5th post StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #10
A little troll fishing? Botany Jun 2020 #11

Midnightwalk

(3,131 posts)
13. There's a kernel of truth in the lie. The stain can't be scrubbed out.
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 10:48 AM
Jun 2020

Americans need to be educated about the history of racism and the civil war. The confederates betrayed their country to defend slavery and the lie that there was honor in that cannot continue. Cover the full story. The north fought the confederacy, not necessarily to free slaves but to preserve the union.

Racism didn't end with the war nor with the civil rights movement. It continues today. Cover that as well.

This should be required material around the 3rd or 4th grade and again in high school.

Similar material should be cover the treatment of native Americans but not be part of the same time. Separate the two.

My family came to the country around the turn of the last century but that doesn't mean I don't recognize the history of my country. It is proper to feel shame about parts of your country's history even if you or your family took part in particular events.

The right thing to say about confederate ancestors if you have them is they betrayed their country because of their racist beliefs and there is nothing honorable about that.

In effect McConnell is saying he finds treason and racism honorable and so it is fair to call him a traitor and a racist.

Botany

(76,710 posts)
14. So Mitch's great great grand pappy fought to keep human beings as slaves and he is ...
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 11:02 AM
Jun 2020

... proud of that? No wonder he was so pissed off @ having a black President.

fleur-de-lisa

(14,704 posts)
5. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 10:18 AM
Jun 2020

Fuck all those dead traitors and the living traitors who still worship them!

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