I loved your article. Your conclusion about these ahistorical views of slavery feed into the cacophony of neo-confederate garage ultimately spawning the likes of Dylann Thomas was striking and poignant. Sharing your article on facebook, however, elicited other responses like; 'come on, how can people be this dumb,' or 'I just can't believe this is true, she is embellishing and hyperbolic'. Much of the conversation these people what to have is about how the media whips people in a frenzy over what they think is not an important/non-existing issue - racism. They of course always say, 'well not all white people are like this, the entire country can't be racist, that's crazy' What would you say to these people?
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I loved your article. Your conclusion about these ahistorical views of slavery feed into the cacophony of neo-confederate garage ultimately spawning the likes of Dylann Thomas was striking and poignant. Sharing your article on facebook, however, elicited other responses like; 'come on, how can people be this dumb,' or 'I just can't believe this is true, she is embellishing and hyperbolic'. Much of the conversation these people what to have is about how the media whips people in a frenzy over what they think is not an important/non-existing issue - racism. They of course always say, 'well not all white people are like this, the entire country can't be racist, that's crazy' What would you say to these people?
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