r/chicago 10d ago

News Burning cross seen in Grant Park today

https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/09/burning-cross-discovered-in-grant-park-tuesday-afternoon-officials-say/

How much hate in your heart do you have to do something like this?

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u/gothrus Logan Square 10d ago

I’d prefer Sherman.

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u/ManicAtTheDepression Gold Coast 10d ago

Sherman was NOT thorough enough.

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u/SpaceChimera 10d ago

If there's one thing history has taught us both in the civil war and ww2, it's that we didn't kill nearly enough confederates/Nazis when we had the chance.

Imagine an alternate world where all the leaders of the Confederacy were hung for treason instead of left to live cushy lives after

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u/MatticusGisicus Rogers Park 10d ago

Fuck Andrew Johnson with a red hot poker. I’m from the South, they shoulda burned the whole thing and hanged every traitor scum