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To start with, only a SMALL number of southerners owned slaves. Most of the army was made up of people who DID NOT! The war was about STATES RIGHTS, NOT slavery.
AND NO I am NOT making excuses for the KKK. Incidently that group of jackasses had plenty of members in the Northern states as well. You might want to read a bit about the New York draft riots where blacks were murdered.
Most of the racists today are not white. I offer the rev. jesse, the rev, al, and of course the (GOD DAMM America)rev. Jerimiah Johnson.
AND NO I am NOT making excuses for the KKK. Incidently that group of jackasses had plenty of members in the Northern states as well. You might want to read a bit about the New York draft riots where blacks were murdered.
Most of the racists today are not white. I offer the rev. jesse, the rev, al, and of course the (GOD DAMM America)rev. Jerimiah Johnson.
