#Confederate

Say hello to Trump supporter and Confederate flag advocate Jerry Crutchfield who thinks #BubbaWallace is a “n**ger” that “should be hung out to dry by a noose.”Jerry is also
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Since we are relitigating the confederacy again let me say as someone who totally believed the “well it was really about economic interests and states rights” argument growing up what
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maybe it’s time to reflect on why far-right Christian nationalists who think Black people’s votes are illegitimate identify strongly with Israel & make defending occupation of Palestinian land without citizenship
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I'm glad people/companies are recognizing Juneteenth, but please don't reduce it to "when slaves were freed in Texas." June 19th, 1865 was when a Union general announced that the last
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1/ Have you ever wondered where “Ole Miss” comes from? We dug up the history.It’s another case of white supremacy hiding in the nooks and crannies of our language. (Thread.)
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The next populist demagogue will be more disciplined and smarter than Trump--not hard to do. Impeachment now is a good vaccine against the Trumpism virus. Me on @Morning_Joe today:https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/kasparov-impeachment
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1. This is the Queen's Hotel. It once stood on Front Street in Toronto. During the American Civil War, it was filled with Confederate soldiers and spies — from there,
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What we've seen now several times is that communities (and even individuals) can hold both of these beliefs at the same time:- Right-wing violence is good and right and Congress
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Many others are already parsing the report of the 1776 Commission. This much here: It's a propagandist hack job.What interested me were the people involved with it.(They're pretty much who
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(Thread) Get the Fighters FightingIf you're a would-be fascist and losing, what do you do?Two of the tricks in Trump's (limited) bag are: "Get the fighters fighting" and "ignite a
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I see we're back to white writers insistent on writing characters of color because they think diversity is them getting paid. As someone who has seen this play out 987
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One thing we learned in 2020 is that the Republican Party has become much more comfortable declaring out loud that they fundamentally object to the right of non-white people to
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There are Senators who often act contrary to the best interest of all American. I often forget @SenJohnKennedy is one of them...likely because he’s so predictable.https://twitter.com/cnnpolitics/status/1273022555012595717 Ft Polk is in
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The truth seekers” talking about Bubba Wallace and NASCAR, who believe in “individualism and not tribalism” right now - but ALSO thought Colin Kaepernick was protesting the military and disrespecting
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As both a @SamSeder guy and A History Guy I'd like to reiterate something he mentioned: monuments are ultimately unreliable representations of what they depict, but they nearly always reveal
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