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Gonna just pretend that blacks weren't terrorized, that Jim Crow didn't happen, and that a big chunk of white people didn't fight against basic civil rights for blacks, kicking and screaming, the entire time, definitely well into the 1960s and 1970s, and some to the current day?

I didn’t say anything about the ‘60’s and ‘70’s. I specifically mentioned a song (The Eyes of Texas), and monuments dedicated to the Civil War. It was a part of society in the South for rich whites to have slaves at work.

It’s a part of history that needs to be known. It’s important to know what went wrong so it isn’t repeated.

Shame on you for reading more into my post than was there. Stay on topic.

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Posted by Buryl

Member since Sep 2016

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Posted on 6/12/20 at 10:10 pm to TexasTiger08

Lol, I responded to exactly what you wrote.

And the monuments weren't put up as a cautionary tale; they were installed, in part, to lionize and glorify the Lost Cause.

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Posted by gumpinmizzou

Member since May 2017

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Posted on 6/12/20 at 10:14 pm to TexasTiger08

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It’s a part of history that needs to be known. It’s important to know what went wrong so it isn’t repeated.

Yes, it should be known so it can’t be repeated. But that can be accomplished in history books.

We don’t need monuments and songs glorifying that shameful time

ETA: Saying “things were just different” is also total bullshite. Owning other humans as property has always been pretty shitty. So things weren’t that different. People were just being shitty

This post was edited on 6/12/20 at 10:17 pm

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