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markpkessinger

(8,935 posts)
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 07:39 PM Aug 2017

No one will ever convince me . . .

. . .that the white nationalists in Charlottesville, at least half of whom probably couldn't name within a decade the year the Civil War started or ended, are even remotely interested in preserving the historical legacy of Robert E. Lee.

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No one will ever convince me . . . (Original Post) markpkessinger Aug 2017 OP
It was an excuse for an altercation. janx Aug 2017 #1
My thoughts exactly! n/t markpkessinger Aug 2017 #2
I posted the same earlier. cwydro Aug 2017 #3
+1 n/t markpkessinger Aug 2017 #4

janx

(24,128 posts)
1. It was an excuse for an altercation.
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 07:44 PM
Aug 2017

I've been discussing this with my adult children for the last couple of days. It's obvious.

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