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In reply to the discussion: The Civil War was not about slavery [View all]mnhtnbb
(31,488 posts)along with this accompanying explanation
"The iceberg that sank the freedoms of Americans in 1861. You see it wasn't the ice that you could see that caused the attack on our southern Titanic it was the truths hidden beneath the waves that you couldn't see."
The nephew is a flaming racist and Trump supporter. He calls himself--and insists his family call him--the General. Never served a day in his life, but has participated in Civil War Re-enactments for years and years. His daughter home schools four kids. The 4th kid (a girl) they went to China to adopt--because they obviously couldn't adopt a local black child who would undoubtedly be much dumber than an Asian kid, according to their stereotypes of race.
My husband has been hugely conflicted about this family--the nephew's mother is my husband's half-sister--for years. His sister basically rescued him
from a horrible home situation when he was a teenager (his mother was an alcoholic who eventually drank herself to death). So, on the one hand he remembers his sister as basically saving his life, and yet her son is a horrible racist. The nephew has been a Limbaugh fan for years and years, too. Got his father hooked on listening to Limbaugh.