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After Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox April 9, 1865 both Confederate and Union troops rode trains to return to their homes. But due to the persistent racism of the day, victorious Negro Union troops were required to ride in the back of the train, while defeated White Confederate troops rode in front. Escaped slave / abolitionist /journalist / influential lecturer Frederick Douglass responded:

"We Negroes love our country. We fought for it. We ask only that we be treated as well as those that fought against it." Fredric Douglass
 
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This doesn't include many of his other statements. For example

He also said men need to lynch trans people on the streets like they did in the 50s and 60s.


And the BIG one where he hates Martin Luther King Jr and wants the civil rights movement taken back.

He invoked the term “midterm hero” in reference to the hammer attack home invasion of the Pelosi residence. He wasn’t a free speech debater, he was an inciting for the crowded theatre to be sealed and mortared.
 
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