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Biden is campaigning against the Lost Cause and the ‘poison’ of white supremacy in South Carolina

February 02, 2024
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By Joseph Patrick Kelly (Special to BHN) Patrick Kelly is a professor who is a historian who studies democracy in the American South, he is doing research for a book on free speech, lying and fascism in America during the 1920s and 1930s. Kelly said he has learned that Biden’s Mother Emanuel speech should rank

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