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heaven05

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Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Sat Aug 26, 2017, 10:48 PM

Aug 2017

creating a new page for future history books for their confederacy and klan hate toward all not white. The civil war never ended for the black american either....Jim Crow was the new confederacy and it never really disappeared.

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Is America Doomed to Repeat Its Racist Past? [View all] sheshe2 Aug 2017 OP

Wouldn't "repeat" imply that it, at some point, stopped? HughBeaumont Aug 2017 #1

No. johnp3907 Aug 2017 #2

Past? Racism in America has never been in the past. Solly Mack Aug 2017 #3

Well of course it has always been here. sheshe2 Aug 2017 #4

I was responding to the piece, not you. Sorry if it seemed otherwise. Solly Mack Aug 2017 #6

Thanks, Solly. sheshe2 Aug 2017 #9

I wish I could hug you for real. Solly Mack Aug 2017 #18

I agree, Solly. brer cat Aug 2017 #16

I agree with you. Solly Mack Aug 2017 #19

Not so much a repetition as a continuation. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2017 #5

If many white Americans deny that there was a racial past, guillaumeb Aug 2017 #7

"The success of the modern GOP is based on gerrymandering, suppression, and racism." sheshe2 Aug 2017 #10

The lies are necessary to support the narrative. guillaumeb Aug 2017 #11

And they VOTE for them every damn time. sheshe2 Aug 2017 #12

At a certain level stupid cannot be fixed. guillaumeb Aug 2017 #13

America stays in this time warp. haveahart Aug 2017 #8

Repeat? Baitball Blogger Aug 2017 #14

There's never been a break in it, it continues because it was never otherwise Raine Aug 2017 #15

already started heaven05 Aug 2017 #17