#Confederate

Brian Kramer 🌹🦀

brianrkramer

This thread sums up my thoughts on the flag completely, but this part is VERY important.The two banners on the flag were put together EONS before the Crossland Banner was

David “HINDSIGHT IS 2021” Walsh

DavidAstinWalsh

So, if I'm understanding Left Twitter today, there are people out there arguing because the Black Panthers, Young Lords, and Young Patriots allied together, that means that the Boogaloos should

Lisa Bari 😷 (she/her/hers)

lisabari

Here in the state of Maryland, we've been trying to change the state song for 40+ years, which was written by a confederate "sympathizer". It's time to go. It was

Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187

ScottMGreer

The point is not whether immigrants can be heirs to the Founders (that's a separate debate). The point is that most Confederate haters didn't even have ancestors here then. The

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

This a useful reminder that in 1994, the year of the great GOP ascendancy of Newt Gingrich, several states across the South instituted official Confederate History Month.https://twitter.com/ajc/status/1357509430947020800 Six years later,

taber טבור

taber

hi, one-time Civil War semi-scholar, hard confirmhttps://twitter.com/PopeNicholasVI/status/1278384324967006209 one chapter of my life has been on my mind, where I went from dismissing Confederate memorials and flag displays as just weird

Lindsay Wise

lindsaywise

To be clear, removing all statues with "any connection to slavery" is not what @SpeakerPelosi is proposing.Her list of 11 statues proposed for removal are all Confederates, plus John C.

🦒 Espo

Esposition

THREADRecently, Governor @dougducey called for a “public process” to decide the fate of the confederate monument at Arizona’s Capitol. Here’s my best attempt at piecing together some of the history.

Kevin M. Levin

KevinLevin

I really enjoyed having the opportunity to talk with history educators tonight about teaching the history of Confederate monuments and the current controversy. Thanks @historyed. I want to share my

Lawrence Glickman

LarryGlickman

This is a great profile but notwithstanding the quote from Haley that she "is a policy girl," it says virtually nothing about her past or future policies &, notably, quotes

Antifascist Alligator 🐊

Antifagator

At the counter-rally in Stone Mountain today some people who came out weren't necessarily political, or they were young and new to politics... they just didn't want a Confederate militia

Michael McAuliff

mmcauliff

Here’s the bust of Roger Taney that the House just voted 305-113 to remove, along with the statues of confederates. Taney was the Chief Justice who wrote the Dred Scott

Andreas Broscheid

broscheid

Keeping the names of Confederate figures on buildings etc. obviously tells Black people "we may say that you're welcome here, but you'll have to be fine with us celebrating people

Benjamin Haas

BenjaminEHaas

(1/10) THREAD: It would be shameful for Trump to veto the defense bill over the issue Confederate figures who fought against the United States in defense of slavery. The effort

Drew Bledsoe

AndrewSBledsoe

Historians can do rigorous military or political history without endorsing the cause(s) for which historical actors fought. In fact, failure to practice judicious interpretation of evidence is partly how we

Silent Sam's Reckoning

sams_reckoning

Members of the neo-Confederate group "Alamance County Taking Back Alamance County" (ACTBAC) suffer from a severe case of collective historical amnesia. Their vision of "heritage" just doesn't match actual Alamance

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