Larry Wilmore on Confederate symbols. . .

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43. No. It was the institution of slavery. It's stated in all the southern states' secession articles

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Let's not re-write history. The racists southerners have done enough of that already.

And a little-known fact: The wealthy plantation owners, just 1.6% of the south's population are the ones who drove for war. They then got the rest of the population through patriotic persuasion and, I grant you, the white supremacy argument, as well as a draft to fight the "War of Northern Aggression", as they called it, even though they themselves started the war at Ft. Sumter.

But please, make no mistake, the war was fought to maintain their right to own other human beings and work them for free labor — slavery.