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kwassa

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2. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

Reply to Blue_Tires (Original post)

Wed Feb 26, 2014, 08:49 PM

Feb 2014

Stack this up against the institutional terrorism of slavery, and then the postwar terrorism of Reconstruction, with the KKK and other supremacist groups using terror and murder to disenfranchise the recently enfranchised population of former slaves.

A statue of Robert E. Lee is a statue of a terrorist to me.

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Abolitionist or Terrorist? [View all] Blue_Tires Feb 2014 OP

We have a national holiday in honor of Christopher Columbus, Maedhros Feb 2014 #1

+1000 JustAnotherGen Feb 2014 #3

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. kwassa Feb 2014 #2

Cosign on Robert E Lee JustAnotherGen Feb 2014 #4