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Opinion: Old Joe should be destroyed along with inequality
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People take to downtown Gainesville Sunday, May 31, 2020, on the second night of protests in Gainesville that blocked traffic and resulted in vandalism on the square. - photo by Scott Rogers
The Confederacy was a shameful group of slave supporters who violently resorted to any means necessary to protect their wealth. They convinced poor Southern whites that their cause was “state’s rights,” which we now know is a thin veil for state’s rights to own human beings, force them into unpaid labor and profit from their suffering.