Counties with more Confederate monuments also had more lynchings, study finds

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12. 1. "We got used to beating, raping, and killing black folk"

2. "We got scared somebody might try to keep us from beating, raping, and killing black folk"

3. "We started a war to make sure nobody could keep us from beating, raping, and killing black folk"

4. "We lost the war"

5. "We put up lots of monuments to the people who fought in the war we lost to make sure nobody could keep us from beating, raping, and killing black folk"

6. "It'sjust a coinky-dink that black folk got beaten, raped, and killed near these monuments celebrating our glorious history"