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AtheistCrusader

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1. For a wider audience, you might consider cross posting to AA.
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 10:25 AM
Jun 2015
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1187

I don't know what to say about the rest of it. I've been to Tennessee. Farthest I've been into that end of the country, and I was shocked by the amount of pro-confederacy stuff everywhere. The highway names. The generals as statues on the side of the road. The building I was going to, to revamp part of their data center, had a diorama in the lobby. A poor injured confederate soldier, crawling away in fear from two practically demon-faced sneering Union soldiers stalking up from the other side of the fence.

It was ducking bizarre. I wanted to leave, immediately, and I'm white. I grew up in Seattle so that level of nostalgia for the wrong side of the civil war was deeply disturbing to me.

It really resonated with what John Stewart said last night about racial wallpaper, that there's some element of this country still stewing in hate.

I didn't even make it to S.C. Just TN. It was disturbing, to borderline frightening.

Anyway, I don't think much of this has much to do with religion, so again, I'd suggest the AA group for a wider audience.

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