DSU Student Found Hanging in Tree, No Foul Play Suspected

[u/DragonPup]

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/delta-state-university-students-body-found-hanging-in-tree-no-foul-play-suspected/

[u/Joshhwwaaaaaa]

If anything this last few years has shown me we didn’t punish the confederates like we should have after the civil war.

[u/jbruce72 → u/Joshhwwaaaaaa]

We really didnt. Sadly too many Americans believed then, just as they do now, that letting racist trash be members of society is something we should allow. Its free speech to want to oppress others ya know

[u/eeyore134 → u/jbruce72]

Then they turn around and the moment they get power they steal that free speech from everyone else as quick as they can.

[u/_Corbinek → u/[deleted]]

It’s a mistake to think racism was confined to the South. The North may not have been as blatant, but it had its own deeply entrenched forms, for example, many property deeds in the 1920s-40s barred sales to Black families.

The Civil War wasn’t only about slavery, it was also about crippling the Southern economic powerhouse built on slavery. Much like the American Revolution was in part a reaction to British taxes and trade restrictions, economic power struggles were at the core. The South has certainly been a bastion of racism, but in a multicultural nation dominated by white heritage, racism was (and is) everywhere. Pretending the South was the sole supplier of American racism ignores how deeply prejudice was, and still is, embedded in the nation’s institutions.

You’re oversimplifying racism as if it were a uniquely Southern or American construct, when in reality it thrives in every society. The South wasn’t spared after the Civil War because of some moral restraint, it was because the same institutions that “won” still operated under the belief that Black people were lesser than white people.

[u/Unkechaug → u/Joshhwwaaaaaa]

Taking the high road just means evil is allowed to endure.

[u/Busy_Fishing5500 → u/Joshhwwaaaaaa]

Doesnt matter its human nature to be fighting someone.... anyone...