Justin Timberlake says Confederate statues 'must come down'

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"America was built by men who believed in and benefitted from racism. Plain and simple," the singer says.

As Americans debate whether monuments to slave owners, including many of the country’s founders, should be taken down, count singer Justin Timberlake as someone who wants them to go.

Timberlake wrote his message alongside a video from the American Civil Liberties Union, which notes that the 10 states with the highest numbers of monuments honouring slave holders and members of the Confederacy accounted for a large number of lynchings — 4,000 — between 1877 to 1950. View this post on InstagramThe “Mirrors” singer’s words come as symbols of systemic racism across the country are being taken down.

Some statues have been toppled by protesters, such as one of Jefferson Davis, once the president of the Confederate States of America, in Richmond, Va., last month.

 

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Justin Timberlake. Grow up little boy

Soros army? 😆

Yahoo Well that settles it then

Yahoo Says the guy who was complicit in the murder of a child based on an unpaid drug debt.

Yahoo Then take the appropriate action to have them removed legally.

Globalist jackass.

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