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Beartracks

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4. And why in a celebration of AMERICA did Trump vow to honor Confederate traitors...

Reply to msongs (Reply #2)

Tue Jul 7, 2020, 12:30 AM

Jul 2020

... by restoring the statues that glorify them?

Look, if Col. Billy Bob made significant positive contributions to industry or science in addition to his treasonous stint in the war of southern transgression, then a statue of him in a suit or a lab coat somewhere might be okay -- but if he's on a horse brandishing a sword in some heroic pose fighting against the United States, that shit's gotta stop.

Make no mistake: Confederates weren't struggling to make America better, they were striving to tear it asunder.

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