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exboyfil

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27. I bet her daddy was at this lynching
Sun Jul 22, 2018, 11:07 PM
Jul 2018

and told the whole family what a grand time it was.

“I think they are promoting violence,” Sheila said, thinking about the 800 weathered, steel monoliths hanging from a roof to evoke the lynchings, one for each American county where the violence was carried out, including Crenshaw County, where a man named Jesse Thornton was lynched in 1940 in downtown Luverne.

I read that article. Ilsa Jul 2018 #1
Pay wall. Can't read it Roland99 Jul 2018 #3
Bottom line - Nothing will change: dalton99a Jul 2018 #16
Jesus H Fucking Christ. No wonder Jim Jones and David Koresh were able to "recruit" so many Roland99 Jul 2018 #17
Yep. Trump got himself a full-blown cult. dalton99a Jul 2018 #19
LMFAO arithia Jul 2018 #21
But wait, there is more - the appliances! dalton99a Jul 2018 #28
oh dear lord wut arithia Jul 2018 #31
LOL. Wow. dalton99a Jul 2018 #33
I don't want to argue with this woman, but... Whiskeytide Jul 2018 #25
Of COURSE they were valued RandomAccess Jul 2018 #2
Much the same way cattle and chickens were rpannier Jul 2018 #20
Exactly RandomAccess Jul 2018 #35
This is the kind of Christianity that really devalues the religion. Initech Jul 2018 #4
Funny you say that. I have a theory that the Religious Right was created to counter Liberation McCamy Taylor Jul 2018 #5
As an avid consumer of..... reACTIONary Jul 2018 #22
I think it was Napolean who said maxrandb Jul 2018 #34
religion for LOL KG Jul 2018 #6
Christians using the Bible to justify slavery? oberliner Jul 2018 #7
Not since the 19th century. paleotn Jul 2018 #10
Hah! I grew up in an urban Southern Baptist church in the 70s GulfCoast66 Jul 2018 #26
You forgot the sarcasm tag. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #23
To religo-wing nuts... paleotn Jul 2018 #8
Wow, how awful. irisblue Jul 2018 #9
This is what I watched when they taught about slavery when I was in school. Scurrilous Jul 2018 #11
They're beyond the reach of reason or decency dalton99a Jul 2018 #12
1 Timothy 2:12 brooklynite Jul 2018 #13
What a waste of reptile skin. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Jul 2018 #14
Donald is so devout keithbvadu2 Jul 2018 #15
"God always had a hand in elections": dalton99a Jul 2018 #18
And God told me... nancy1942 Jul 2018 #24
I bet her daddy was at this lynching exboyfil Jul 2018 #27
reading the whole article...it's evident why they REALLY like Trump. the fear of immigration/blacks Demovictory9 Jul 2018 #29
It is sheer naked bigotry dalton99a Jul 2018 #30
i see a yearning for the 1950s from Sheila Butler.. before all that "Rosa Parks stuff" Demovictory9 Jul 2018 #32
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