The real crime of white supremacy was not that it put up st… - Allen C. Guelzo

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The real crime of white supremacy was not that it put up statues, or even that it made speeches, but that it attacked citizens and passed laws.

Allen C. Guelzo

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Allen Carl Guelzo (born 1953) is an American historian.

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