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In reply to the discussion: 75% [View all]Roy Rolling
(6,943 posts)They were slaveowners.
Then what?
An ad hominem campaign to erase their names from history, exactly at the point when we should be confronting the ugly past to come up with a better future? Not go back and fight the personalities of 1776, but ignore the substantive issue of a legacy of economic inequality?
The greedy business class that was all-in for slavery in the 1800s would like nothing better than to brand the conflict a cultural war rather than an economic struggle. Then, they can buy public opinion against protestors, rather than earn it in the marketplace of ideas.
Dont fall for it, its a trap. Protest smartly, not for just for the sake of protest, but to keep attention diverted from substantive changes being made. Its a struggle for peace, not just for dominance.