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When Robinson says the South "won the peace," what I take him to mean is that they only won it through a white cultural war that made monuments to the slavers and confederate tools who fought for the false "noble cause" that was seldom called slavery or owning other humans.
And so they suppressed black history as American history by promoting their own STORY of themselves through the public "culture" buildout of monuments, that propagated the idea that what they had was "heritage." It was false, but who knew enough about the past to challenge this buildout.
And now that this fake president says we are in a war, it's not about CANCEL, it's about demolishing monuments to the lies the confeds told their kids, grandkids and America, and about bringing forward the honest truth to demolish the lies and fake victimization stories they had told themselves.
White supremacy sickness came from their European forebears, and from that sickness we've been chronically warped into thinking we're well. We're still sick from the European hyperrationalizing of racial superiority. So much that we think the medicine is worse than the disease we deny having.
That European nations helped fund the South's side of the Civil War is one evidence of how they felt connected to that false "cause."
We'll recover. Those who believe Trump will just have to face America's slave times, and the whole truth of our nation's history. The president's American carnage speech in S. Dakota was one Big Projection on the rest of us who know there could never be a culture built on any rationalizing of Indian genocide and African slavery.
Protesters are owning it all, and we must keep supporting them so that we get to finalize the truth of our past so that we can honestly face this nation's and people's future.