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Blue_Tires

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13. That's an extension of the classic birch arguement

Reply to Douglas Carpenter (Reply #12)

Wed Oct 16, 2013, 02:18 PM

Oct 2013

used against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, i.e., sooner or later white Southerners would have just "woken up" and seen the error of their ways in Jim Crow and lynching...

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