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In reply to the discussion: Re: Baton Rouge [View all]NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)32. You do know Gandhi was racist right?
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Brown had little to do with Lincoln winning the election but a lot to do with southern secession.
Hoppy
Jul 2016
#20
Brown's raid apparently prompted several southern states to form, arm and train new
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#24
If Lincoln lost, the South wouldn't have seceded in response to the election.
Martin Eden
Jul 2016
#41
The LADP ran outta my neighborhood so fast you'd think the devil was on their heels
bravenak
Jul 2016
#52
The LA insurrection defeated soundly the LAPD (the force in question) and
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#55
The LAPD were defeated. That's all that's been at issue, as far as I'm concerned, per your
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#57
"organized mass resistance or even unorganized mass resistance is another matter entirely"
Martin Eden
Jul 2016
#59
Inferring from your most recent post, you seem to believe the system is capable of reforming
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#60
Back to John Brown. He and his followers represented the fringe of the fringe at the time. Most
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#62
Douglass may have been cool to Brown's entreaties before the raid, not wishing to embark on what he
KingCharlemagne
Jul 2016
#64
John Brown's raid was perhaps one of the last turning points leading to the Civil War . . .
brush
Jul 2016
#53
Yup. There are many ways to fight injustice. There's talking, economics, and then there's force.
craigmatic
Jul 2016
#12
er, you're equating people asking simply to not be shot to "right wing anger"?
Schema Thing
Jul 2016
#14
People are not asking not to be shot. They are raging about black men being shot
Democat
Jul 2016
#17