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Michael Bales's avatar

There are monuments of traitors across the South. They took up arms against the government. But they were white and not slaves and never executed, of course.

Listening to Trump, one would think that if returned to office he would pardon those who tried to overturn the government on January 6, including himself. And order monuments erected to memorialize their treason.

Side note: I recommend the novel "Cloudsplitter" by Russell Banks. It's a fictional account of Brown's life as narrated by his son. Not without flaws, it effectively helps readers experience the highly fraught nature of those so very troubled times.

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Karen Estby's avatar

Thank you for keeping our history alive. Those who deny our past or rewrite it to serve their own ends are dangerous and we have to be louder.

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