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Blue_true

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4. It is interesting how they always cry must respect history.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Aug 22, 2017, 08:15 PM

Aug 2017

What history is that? Jim Crow era history? KKK high point history? Violent reaction to Blacks gaining civil rights history? Most of the statues were erected for one of those reasons.

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Pence backs adding monuments, not taking them down [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2017 OP

So whow exactly did the people the monuments represented move he nation forward? TlalocW Aug 2017 #1

I can see it now, a Tim McVeigh monument in downtown OKC Major Nikon Aug 2017 #2

He is so unChristian. applegrove Aug 2017 #3

It is interesting how they always cry must respect history. Blue_true Aug 2017 #4

Pence is attempting to take both sides. Hieronymus Aug 2017 #5