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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 5932940" data-attributes="member: 54375">&quot;The same sort of people who want this history disappeared fueled the <a href="https://www.neh.gov/news/reconstruction-vs-redemption" target="_blank">Redeemer movement</a>, enforced Jim Crow laws, and kept alive the Lost Cause for well over 100 years to keep from confronting the sins of their grandparents, great-grandparents and great-great grandparents. They gave a new meaning to the term “whitewash.” <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/floridas-new-education-standards-says-slavery-had-personal-benefits/" target="_blank">It continues to this day</a>. The legacy of <a href="https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/origins-modern-day-policing" target="_blank">slave patrols</a> continues to this day.Should our republic survive the fascist movement spreading here and abroad, people now engaged in the MAGA movement will put equally strenuous efforts behind burying the history of their seditious participation and that of their parents and grandparents. Just as before.&quot;Digby</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 5932940, member: 54375"] "The same sort of people who want this history disappeared fueled the [URL='https://www.neh.gov/news/reconstruction-vs-redemption']Redeemer movement[/URL], enforced Jim Crow laws, and kept alive the Lost Cause for well over 100 years to keep from confronting the sins of their grandparents, great-grandparents and great-great grandparents. They gave a new meaning to the term “whitewash.” [URL='https://www.cbsnews.com/news/floridas-new-education-standards-says-slavery-had-personal-benefits/']It continues to this day[/URL]. The legacy of [URL='https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/origins-modern-day-policing']slave patrols[/URL] continues to this day. Should our republic survive the fascist movement spreading here and abroad, people now engaged in the MAGA movement will put equally strenuous efforts behind burying the history of their seditious participation and that of their parents and grandparents. Just as before." Digby [/QUOTE]

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