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EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

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April 10, 2018 Jerry King Comments 0 Comment

Rage!  Menis! How much history, as though a blind fate, –is a story of rage and the aftermath.

April 2, 1865 the Confederacy was essentially finished.  After four years of war, the Union army entered Richmond while the city burned.  A way of life based upon slavery, the blind determination to unjustly use human beings as a resource resulted in the battle deaths of 650,000, devastation of Southern towns and farms, and further death by starvation and disease of uncounted civilians.  The formal surrender at

Appomattox was soon to follow.

The years have passed and generations later, the war is not over.  The alt-right, proto-fascist minded racists have marshaled enough support to elect their candidate to the White House.  Congress also is in the hands of racist, nationalist minded politicians.

They have their own version of the American Civil War.

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