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Originally Posted by Mick
It's not just Statues that are now being talked about. I saw somewhere, it was suggested yesterday, perhaps in jest to blow up Mount Rushmore, because it contains faces of former Presidents and slave owners.
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But that again completely misrepresents what the debate is again. No one is saying dismantle them because they were slave owners but rather because they fought a war to maintain the right to own slaves.
This is Donald Trump again with this comparison of George Washington to Robert Lee which is nonsense.
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$5 Lincoln - did not necessarily agree with slavery, but didn't agree that blacks were equal
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That's one way of putting it.
