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Dan

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1. All of these symbolic gestures....

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sun May 9, 2021, 01:41 AM

May 2021

Maybe, it relieves the guilt of the past for the State - a white washing not of history, but of the knowledge that what occurred makes a lie of the myth of American justice.

People that were killed unjustly, pardoned for crimes not committed, are still dead. The pardon doesn't work like sometype of Larzarus fix, and it doesn't undue what happened then.

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