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Old 08-24-2007, 06:06 PM   #41
DanaC
We have to go back, Kate!
 
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Well, if we're going to be entirely honest about it, the North was barely less prejudiced than the South during the Antebellum era, through reconstruction and on into Jim Crow. The only real difference was between de facto segregation and de jure segregation.

I was comparing the unfairness of the justice system of that racist era with the system's attitudes to other groups now.
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