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And this isn't the first time President Trump praised the Confederacy. He's called the removal of “beautiful” monuments “foolish” and tweeting that it is “[s]ad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart.” splcenter.org/data-projects/…
This "history and culture" Pres. Trump spoke of is Lost Cause revisionist history. It is not the real history of America. It's a "history" that saw monuments to Robert E. Lee built 40 yrs after the Civil War, when Jim Crow disenfranchised Black Southerners + the KKK was revived. 
It's a "history" that was taught for generations, leaving today's high school students unsure of the truth. In our survey from earlier this year, only 8 percent of high school seniors could identify slavery as the central cause of the Civil War.
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