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I still remember KKK rallies being held in American towns back in the 1980’s, they were all over television

Don’t f****ing tell me America isn’t racist, that’s a bold faced lie and it’s a lie that we’ve known about for so many decades which is why children have a right to know, and ought to know, the truth. Keeping the truth from them isn’t going to solve anything. When America deals with it’s demons out in the open, for everyone to see it brings more of us together

David Duke was in the Louisiana House when I was alive

David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is an American politician, author, white supremacist, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, and former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From 1989 to 1992, he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for the Republican Party

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke

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for the Republican Party

But morons online keep telling me that Democrats are the real racists?

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for the Republican Party

But morons online keep telling me that Democrats are the real racists?

Hurr-durr LiCoLn WaS a RePubLicAn!

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It always comes back to projection. When you accuse your “enemy” of something, it doesn’t seem as bad when you do it.

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I know, it’s absolutely insane

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KKK rallies are still occurring and in more frequency since 2012.

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“Unite the Right” wasn’t that long ago.

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