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Michael Repetto's avatar

Thank you for that story. I had no idea about that. The ancestors left a mess to be cleaned up and it’s depressing when the following generations kept the ugliness alive. This morning I watched a program about John Lewis and the freedom riders. It’s just appalling that one hundred years after they lost the war, what I assume was the bitterness of losing being kept alive by every generation since, made them (the freedom riders) have to do what they did. It just pisses me off when trump called flying the confederate flag freedom of speech when he himself is so thin skinned that he practically put out a contact on a 16 year old girl who said something ‘nasty’ ( the word he seems to reserve for women who don’t agree with him, about him during his campaign. Then when they refuse to say black lives matter and counter with “all lives matter” they’re just being unknowingly transparent. There was never any question in this country that white lives matter and they’re just playing the persecution card to deflect from the truth, the truth that nowadays can be proven most of the time on video.

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Blue Man's avatar

Couldn't comment yesterday, I was feeling overcome. As a friend of mine said, "what will we do without him?"

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