Larry Wilmore on Confederate symbols. . .

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45. Believe that if you want but it's seems an attempt to re-write history...

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as was the mendacious "states rights" argument for the war pushed by many of the southern losers.

The war was fought by the south to maintain slavery.

Of course white supremacy was used as a justification for keeping Africans enslaved, and it was believed by them, but without the unpaid labor of enslaved Africans the economy of the South would've collapsed, and the slave owners knew it.

Research those states articles of secession. The reason for the secession, maintaining slavery, is written in all of them.

Here's a quote for you:

Here’s Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, arguing that its “cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the Negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first in the history of the world based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.”

Nobody talks that way anymore except guys with Swastikas. It’s no exaggeration to say that the virulent racism they preach was invented precisely to rationalize the evil of slavery. Nevertheless, that’s what the Civil War, the bloodiest tragedy in American history, was all about. Protecting and defending chattel slavery, a grotesque remnant of human history. There’s nothing to be gained by pretending otherwise.