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  1. lost causenoun

    a defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable

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  1. Ray Lucas:

    The house didn't burn all the way down, but it's a lost cause. Everyone's possessions were gone from smoke damage or flames.

  2. Robert E. Lee:

    That whole mentality of the Lost Cause started to seep into my life, it then became a point of retrospection and trying to figure out what is the point of all this ? Why are we celebrating this man who enslaved people and fought for the continued enslavement of Black people on this continent ?

  3. Marc Leepson:

    The analogy that comes to mind is Confederate statues, most Confederate statues weren't put up right after the Civil War. They were part of the spreading of the Lost Cause Theory, and then Jim Crow and segregation. They had a purpose in the eyes of the public.

  4. Levar Stoney:

    Jefferson Davis was a racist traitor who fled our city as Jefferson Davis troops carried out orders to burn it to the ground, jefferson Davis never deserved to be up on that pedestal. July 1, we will begin the process the state requires to remove these monuments to the Old Richmond of a Lost Cause.

  5. Mark Meadows:

    It may seem like a lost cause, but the history of the country is filled with seemingly lost causes that now seem like self-evident truths.


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