Blarobbarg

To touch on a few of the topics in the thread...

The KKK was begun in Indiana. I have a coworker who lives very near the founding area, and he says there's all sorts of weird old KKK relics all over the place there.

In the urban areas of Louisville, my home, pretty much anybody with a Confederate flag pasted on their house or flying is a racist, and is letting everyone know it. Almost guaranteed. This is by far NOT how many, many southerners view it... I know, I've asked. Many southerners just view it as a symbol of independence. I disagree with using it in such a way because of its origins and how it makes African Americans (rightly) feel, but I digress. And yes, many of these same Confederate flag wavers DO love Lynyrnd Skynyrd.

I think more important than any of this is the fact that, thank God, the slaves were freed. That battle was won.

Unfortunately, there is literally more slaves today in the world than all of history. The sale of women is the third largest "business" in the world. So many think that after the Emancipation Proclamation there were no more slaves, ever, which is simply not true. Some of them are still here in the US.

If it isn't obvious already, this topic is VERY important to me. I cannot express in the English language how much I HATE slavery. The very idea of one man controlling another is simply sickening. I could literally go on for hours on this.

Instead, here's a link. This isn't who I primarily look at, but they have a ton of helpful info and slavery news. Take a look, please.

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Unknown Soldier

I posted a stereotypical British view in an earlier post on the south, it seems it does have some credibility based on what you've put above.

hip hop bunny hop

Not quite; The first Klan was founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, as a terrorist organization[9] by veterans of the Confederate Army.[14] They named it after the Greek word kuklos, which means circle. The name means "Circle of Brothers."[15] LINK

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