#Confederate

Steve Inskeep

NPRinskeep

Internal @NPR email: "Next year, in 2021, Juneteenth will be an official NPR paid holiday." This is a really meaningful act by my @NPR colleagues. When people built Confederate statues,

max curtis

MaxGeopolitics

The political temperature in the US is incredibly high. There were shots fired, a homemade bomb thrown, and fights between left and right/left and police in many places across the

Rick Petree

RickPetree

THREAD. There is renewed attention to the fact that there are U.S. Army posts named for nine Confederate generals and one Confederate Colonel. These include three of the nation’s most

Sean Keenan

ThatSeanKeenan

It's a quiet morning in downtown Stone Mountain... so far. A few dozen anti-racist demonstrators (Antifa, FLOWER, etc.), some armed with assault rifles, are congregating near the center of downtown

Dr. Adam H. Domby

AdamHDomby

“Many historians claim that no one did more to unify the country after the war than Lee” claims @kappaalphaorder. Which historians? I’ll wait...as a historian I can tell you he

T.J. Stiles

TJStiles_Author

History is not a user manual for the future. But I note that we've usually had too little accountability, rarely too much. Who thinks there was *too much* de-Nazification, or

Dave Zirin

EdgeofSports

Appalled by the smearing of @BubbaWallace’s character. He was called by the head of NASCAR and told about the noose. He - and NASCAR - responded beautifully. Bubba did nothing

Adam Wagner

ByAdamWagner

A Confederate statue is down in #Raleigh Here’s the second oneS Statues were dragged through the streets This is the statue’s new post for right now.

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billsweet

BG John Buford - 1st Division Cavalry commander - was the first to recognize the importance of key terrain at Gettysburg his actions on July 1st, 1863 may well have

Kevin M. Levin

KevinLevin

Watching the live removal of the Confederate statue in Albemarle County's Court House Square in the city of Charlottesville.https://www.facebook.com/Albemarle.County/videos/318192269452093 I had concerns about the live removal when it w

James Wigderson

jwigderson

This is not a parody. PragerU really believes this crap. So let's just dig through these deep piles of doo doo. 1/10https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1341059245572145152 “Statues of great Americans” - statues of Lee,

gwen frisbie-fulton

gwen_fulton

Today in #GRAHAMNC I went to a permitted March to the Polls lead by Rev Drumwright and others. Starting at a Black AME church, Rev Drumwright started the march by

Mark Delaney

markbdelaney

(1/12 Watching Ken Burns’ epic Civil War and thinking on bases named after Confederate generals. Every one comes at an opportunity cost of someone who fought for the United States

Kirk Ross

ludkmr

This is what happens you write a law that gives people no recourse. For the record, here's the language in Senate Bill 22 that made it impossible to remove a

Stephen Robinson

SER1897

The 13th Amendment abolishing slavery also nullified the 3/5ths rule, so the former Confederate states had greater congressional representation and more Electoral College votes. This would increase their political power

Nathan Kalmoe

NathanKalmoe

This is important. It also forces us to consider the millions of Black Americans who'd be alive if their ancestors hadn't been among 10000s lynched or worked to death after

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