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Originally Posted by Natalya
And stop complaining about the unrest. People have a right to be upset.
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People have a right to complain.
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Y'all weren't listening or taking notice until they started burning down police stations and fast food joints. Now you're being forced to listen. Quit being babies and open your ears to the pleas from the people who have been trodden upon for far too long.
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I see you're against slavery. It's Okay to be against slavery.
But realize that while slavery was bad, it also didn't 'build this country'. It held the South back until it was ended. It was a blight all round. Reparate that.
The USofA was instantiated during a time of universal slavery save the UK homeland and [maybe] Mexico. The rule that all men were created equal was perfected a hundred years later. ...a hundred and fifty years ago.
Did you notice that CHOP/CHAZ immediately built a wall and instituted segregation?
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No. Those people died protecting a horrible institution that deserved to be abolished. Their way of life needed to end.
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Only 10% of Southerners held slaves. The other 90% experienced a war of Northern aggression.
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Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. The conflict was characterized by years of electoral fraud, raids, assaults, and retributive murders carried out in Kansas and neighboring Missouri by pro-slavery "Border Ruffians" and anti-slavery "Free-Staters".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_Kansas
The fuse was lit in Lawrence, Kansas in 1856 and burnt all the way to Fort Sumter.
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Wow, I just noticed this:
Free your mind and your *ss will follow.
Georgia isn't special. You do know that that 1619 stuff is all about
Massachusetts?
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Did Maine allow slavery A long ago? - Answers
https://www.answers.com/Q/Did_Maine_...ery_A_long_ago
Slavery was legal in Maine until 1783 because Maine was a part of Massachusetts until 1820. Although slavery was not as widely practiced in the north, first slaves in Massachusetts and what is now ...
U.S. Slavery: Timeline, Figures & Abolition - HISTORY
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery
Slavery was a dominant feature of the antebellum South, but it was also pervasive in the pre-Civil War North—the New England states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut ...
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