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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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And now that Lost Cause "history" is being perpetuated by President of the United States. Robert E. Lee was not an incredible general. And monuments to his name are not "beautiful."
Slavery — and the white supremacist institutions that perpetuated slavery — were not just a simple events in our history, they are central to our history.

It's time to lose the Lost Cause. #LostTheLostCause
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Peter Brown is a US citizen who was mistakenly detained by ICE after local sheriffs arrested him. We're suing. npr.org/2018/12/18/677…
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