"The message is whatever you do I'm watching and they are,"

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Just saw this. Words cannot express....
http://www.npr.org/2010/09/24/130099092/civil-rights-judicial-bias-surround-texas-drug-case

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Clarksville was one of the first places settled in the state of Texas. After 190 years since its founding, the town of 3,200 retains a slightly dilapidated Southern charm.

In the town square stands a large statue of a Confederate soldier, Col. John C. Burks. What's strange is that the statue is not facing east toward Murfreesboro, Tenn., where Burks and many other locals lost their lives charging a Union battery. Nor is it facing south in honor of Burks' beloved Confederacy.

The Confederate colonel faces northwest, as if looking toward Idaho. But the way Vergil Richardson sees it, the statue is actually keeping an eye on the town's black neighborhood.

Richardson grew up in Clarksville. He led the local high school's basketball team to two state championship games and eventually came back to coach the team. He says that since the days of Reconstruction, the Confederate officer has been sending a quiet message from Clarksville's white community to its black community.

"The message is whatever you do I'm watching and they are," Richardson says.

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1. This proves

As is evident over and over again that prejudice drives people to act against their best interest. The confederate army was mostly composed of farmers who never even owned a slave yet they ardently defended their plutocratic system and the enslavement of a fellow human being. Much has not changed over the years…

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2. I think you are making a very superficial generalization here. While it is

certainly true that many (if not most) Confederate soldiers never owned a slave, it is misleading at best to attribute their zeal in fighting as an 'ardent defense of their plutocratic system and enslavement of a fellow human being', At the time of the Civil War, loyalties were much more regional than they are now. A person's loyalty was to his/her State, not to the National Goverment, which to most of them was merely an amalgamation of the various states. It is interesting to note that at the time of the Civil War, semantically the US was referred to as "The United States of America ARE...." rather than "The United State of America IS...". A classic example of this was Robert E. Lee, offered the command of both the Confederate and the US forces, but who saw his overarching loyalty to his state.

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3. Very good point. n/t