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treestar

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12. Good point. I would not be surprised if

Reply to bluesbassman (Reply #7)

Fri May 15, 2015, 06:14 PM

May 2015

textbooks from the North used in the 50s didn't have things that would be unacceptable today. They wouldn't have gone on about the Civil War and Lincoln that way, but they might have instructed that blacks were inferior and subject to separate laws.

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dispite your "disclaimer" Kali May 2015 #1

Nope. If a shoe doesn't fit, people shouldn't put it on. riqster May 2015 #2

I like to pretend I'm clever enough to tell other people what they shouldn't feel offended by too LanternWaste May 2015 #4

Go home Yankee.... ileus May 2015 #3

If what you posted is the reason for southern racists TexasProgresive May 2015 #5

Probably the same reason I am not a homophobe, riqster May 2015 #8

Mr Fish Toon n2doc May 2015 #6

By that line of reasoning we're a nation of racist f***wits. bluesbassman May 2015 #7

Good point. I would not be surprised if treestar May 2015 #12

No, but it's a reason so many Americans are fuckwits. riqster May 2015 #13

I moved from OH to Savannah, GA when I was 21 years old. alphafemale May 2015 #9

I am black and live in Ga. DeadEyeDyck May 2015 #10

Why are so many northerners? carolinayellowdog May 2015 #11

My northern school never taught about the genocide of the First Natives. They must think we, Dont call me Shirley May 2015 #14

This message was self-deleted by its author Dont call me Shirley May 2015 #14

Many Northerners are also racist fuckwits. 6000eliot May 2015 #16

Holy Shite - they really had textbooks with that crap malaise May 2015 #17