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Black activists destroy offensive objects from the past on Emancipation Day
- AinderS 4y agoSubmitted because a news article portraying book burning in a positive light was very unexpected. “Where one burns books, there one eventually burns people.” - Heinrich Heine, probably referring only to books that you like, so it does not apply in this case.
- EddieDante 4y agoToo long; didn't watch.
- cato_the_elder 4y agoIn case you want to read it, one of the books they are burning seems to be "Life and Labor in the Old South" by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips [1]. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_Bonnell_Phillips https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_Bonnell_Phillips