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ocschwar 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov data...

Most of the statues we're talking about were installed during the Civil Rights era as an explicit flex meant to intimidate African Americans.

exe34 3 months ago [–]

here in the UK we had the same burn the -witch+statue- panic and ours were imperial leaders of some sort - but the people they oppressed were oceans away.

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