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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Rich confederate history" is a funny way to spell slave-owning traitors.[/quote]
Agreed. I wonder if Germans celebrate their “rich nazi history”…somehow I doubt it. And yes, slavery was just as bad as nazism. [/quote]

Well first of all, there are some living survivors who bare the pain of the what the nazis did. Slavery was 250 years ago, if it were not for history books no one would even know if it. There is not a single person who is directly affected by Slavery living on the face of the planet in 2023. [/quote]

I say this sincerely; please go visit the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture.  Set aside the day, take your time and go through it with an open heart and an open mind. It does a masterful job on putting together all the links in the chain of the history from the earliest days of slavery to where we are today.

I’d also recommend you watch Finding Your Roots on PBS. Watch the visceral pain on the guests’ faces when they look at the documents showing their ancestors were treated as chattel-represented by a mere nameless entry. Slave owners literally erased the history of these people by not recording their names in any kind of record, other than  maybe a first name in a will. Why should they get to have their own names remembered and celebrated?

Go to the museum and come back and have this conversation. [/quote]

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