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Roy Rolling

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10. Uneducated

Reply to cstanleytech (Reply #7)

Sun Mar 10, 2019, 10:00 AM

Mar 2019

Keeping people dumb and uneducated makes it easy to exploit them. That is now the "southern strategy".

What's left of nobility of the south is described by the book title "Confederacy of Dunces", it describe their modern-day decendants.

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154 Years Ago Today; Amy Spain is murdered by CSA - last slave executed [View all] Dennis Donovan Mar 2019 OP

Very interesting story Sherman A1 Mar 2019 #1

This in unimaginably horrible Rhiannon12866 Mar 2019 #2

America's nazi holocaust DirtEdonE Mar 2019 #3

Lincoln was far too magnanimous 47of74 Mar 2019 #4

Yup, one of the main things that should have been done was that everyone in the south cstanleytech Mar 2019 #7

Uneducated Roy Rolling Mar 2019 #10

Kinda' like what I want to do with trump voters. lol nt DirtEdonE Mar 2019 #13

The period after the Civil War Scubamatt Mar 2019 #11

Yes! The losers went home as winners! DirtEdonE Mar 2019 #12

I think the 13th is fatally flawed 47of74 Mar 2019 #15

Damn it. Can you steal from your family home? JCMach1 Mar 2019 #5

She probobly was Major Spain's daughter Farmer-Rick Mar 2019 #6

Different aliens during Old Testament and New? nt DirtEdonE Mar 2019 #16

Wheeler rawhideal Mar 2019 #8

Interesting expression: "last slave legally executed." marble falls Mar 2019 #9

"conduct unbecoming a slave" brer cat Mar 2019 #14