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Picture of burning cross surrounded by KKK.  Caption:  Remember the good old days, when civil rights were left to the states.

Meanwhile, John Martin considers his own “Southern heritage” and the big lie that is Gone with the Wind, a lie that lives with us still. Here’s a bit:

About a decade ago, I discovered the Slave Schedules of the 1860 U.S. Census. It includes an inventory of the human beings my great-great-Grandfather Martin owned at his plantation near Savannah. He owned more than 50 slaves, and they’re listed one by one, nameless, like barnyard stock. The oldest, a female, aged 70. The youngest a female infant not yet 1. Twenty-six females and 28 males, of all ages in between.

This is as deep and elemental as my Southern heritage gets, a direct link to our nation’s Original Sin.

Image via Job’s Anger.

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