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Botany

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1. Trump's war on black and brown people continues.

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Thu Sep 4, 2025, 11:28 AM

Thursday

Robert E. Lee conducted a war to violently destroy the United States of America so 200 or
300 rich families could own human beings as slaves. The myth of good old “Bobby Lee”
is just that a myth. When one of his slaves ran away and he was returned to Lee’s plantation
Lee had him whipped and then a few days later had his wounds treated with salt water all
the time claiming to be a Christian as he was thinking that slavery was O.K. because God made
them black because they were less human than white people.

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