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Your Confederacy Is Burning. It’s About Time.

‘NO MORE WHITE SUPREMACY’

All it took to muster the political will was yet another racist murder and days of footage showing cops indiscriminately beating protesters. At least this country is consistent.

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A Birmingham crowd protesting white supremacist terror toppled a statue honoring Charles Linn, who fought with the Confederate Navy to keep black folks enslaved in perpetuity.

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