#confederate

#GOP leader Mitch McConnell was born OTD in 1942 #racism #Confederate

#GOP leader Mitch McConnell was born OTD in 1942 #racism #Confederate

#GOP leader Mitch McConnell was born OTD in 1942 #racism #Confederate

RFK Jr. had a ‘visceral’ reaction against the tear-downs of #Confederate statues https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/28/rfk-jr-confederate-statues/

Jan. 18, 1862, The Confederate Territory of #Arizona is formed out of the southern half of the Union's New Mexico Territory. A #Confederate invasion of the Southwest did compel the United States to take Arizonans seriously. Colonel James H. Wright led an expedition to open the southern mail line and recapture forts in Arizona and New Mexico. Confederates hoped to retake their territory, but for all intents and purposes, it became the United States Territory of Arizona, separate from New Mexico.

TIL on @wikipedia about Benjamin Jackson, a real-life opponent to #Confederate blockade runners, such as the fictional character of Rhett Butler in “Gone With The Wind”. Jackson was a sailor and farmer from Nova Scotia #Canada who was a decorated veteran of the #American #CivilWar. #histodons #resist https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Jackson_(sailor)

#Florida students are giving up Saturdays to learn #BlackHistory lessons their schools don’t teach

By KATE PAYNE
Updated 12:15 AM EST, December 21, 2024

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — "Buried among Florida’s manicured golf courses and sprawling suburbs are the artifacts of its slave-holding past: the long-lost cemeteries of enslaved people, the statutes of #Confederate soldiers that still stand watch over town squares, the old #plantations turned into modern subdivisions that bear the same name. But many students aren’t learning that kind of Black history in Florida classrooms.

"In an old wooden bungalow in Delray Beach, Charlene Farrington and her staff gather groups of teenagers on Saturday mornings to teach them lessons she worries that public schools won’t provide. They talk about #SouthFlorida’s #Caribbean roots, the state’s dark history of #lynchings, how #segregation still shapes the landscape and how #grassroots #activists mobilized the #CivilRights Movement to upend generations of oppression.

[...]

"When Sulaya Williams’ eldest child started school, she couldn’t find the comprehensive instruction she wanted for him in their area. So in 2016, she launched her own organization to teach Black history in community settings.

"'We wanted to make sure that our children knew our stories, to be able to pass down to their children,' Williams said.

"Williams now has a contract to teach Saturday school at a public #library in Fort Lauderdale, and her 12-year-old daughter Addah Gordon invites her classmates to join her.

"'It feels like I’m really learning my culture. Like I’m learning what my ancestors did,' Addah said. 'And most people don’t know what they did.'"

Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/florida-black-history-desantis-african-american-education-8d14b055ddda651d2761dca30bba5600

#BlackHistoryMatters #KnowledgeIspower #BlackLivesMatter #DeSantisSucks

#HISTORY -

The #Confederate Plot to Burn #NewYorkCity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCyMQrL3C_8

Although not nearly as discussed as the battles and generals of the war, both the #Union and the #Confederacy engaged in robust programs of espionage during the #US #CivilWar. These nineteenth century #spies engaged in cloak and dagger activities worthy of 007, including a brazen attack on November 25, 1864 on the Union’s largest city.

"If the people in your own government aren't obeying you, you have got to get rid of them & replace them with people who are responsive to what the president's trying to do," #JDVance said in an interview w/ Tucker Carlson before the election.

During the campaign, #Trump pledged to restore the name of a #Confederate general to a major #US #military base, reversing a change made after #GeorgeFloyd's killing.

#NationalSecurity #Racism #WhiteSupremacy

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Trump #confederate announces opposition to #women's #right to #vote

https://boingboing.net/2024/10/29/trump-confederate-announces-opposition-to-womens-right-to-vote.html
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:movn6xzezospl7lnkhy7nzpt/post/3l7oa7vwcfd24

@blogdiva

their endorsement of #harris could really mean something:

their fanbase is working class and white, prime #MAGA grounds

they have not one but two anti-#confederate flag songs

And they support #BLM

I dig #ICP #insaneclownposse

"#Atlanta man drives three hours to pull down #Confederate flag flying over #SouthCarolina highway"

I like this guy. What he did is called patriotism. Who wants to fly the flag of treason for an un-American anti-freedom cause?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/atlanta-confederate-flag-south-carolina-highway-b2581411.html

> A 30-foot #Confederate obelisk erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1908 previously stood in Decatur Square for more than 110 years.

> It featured text inscriptions on all four sides of its base, celebrating the ideals of the #Confederacy. The inscriptions claimed those who erected the monument were bearing witness to the future, unaware it would one day be torn down, replaced by a new symbol of peace and progress

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/24/us/john-lewis-statue-atlanta-confederate/index.html

#civilrights #johnLewis #blm #racism

A 110-year-old #confederate monument was officially replaced in #Decatur #Georgia yesterday during an unveiling ceremony of a statute of #CivilRights icon Rep. John Lewis.

The event, which included Sen. Raphael Warnock, drew a large crowd with many expressing *joy* that the 12-foot bronze figure of Lewis would replace the century-old symbol of #hate and division.
(Link to post below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yonz4BaY0Ro

The biggest issue I take with #JDVance's stance of viewing #NativeAmericans as "enemy", replacing #ColumbusDay with #IndigenousPeoplesDay as something to be fought against, and the idea of keeping all these monuments to racially controversial figures (in general, because he's also in favor of monuments to the #Confederate leaders who murdered hundreds of thousands of Americans in the name of #WhiteSupremacism and #feudalism), comes even before getting into whether or not any of this is factual, but just the general concept as a whole...

In successful #ConflictManagement and #ConflictResolution, we always have to keep in mind that every #conflict has to end.

The main point of renaming these sites and these holidays, of observing the wrongs that were done and encouraging peaceful coexistence, isn't just because some people are "offended", it's because the conflict is not useful to society, and we want it to resolve.

That he doesn't want to resolve conflict speaks volumes about him.

Bronze statue of #JohnLewis replaces more than 100-year-old #Confederate monument

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https://apnews.com/article/john-lewis-bronze-statue-replaced-confederate-georgia-b0c51086a4b83750ff38b1af2167abde

Bronze statue of #JohnLewis replaces more than 100-year-old #Confederate monument

By RON HARRIS
Updated 6:38 PM EDT, August 16, 2024

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — "A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed Friday, at the very spot where a contentious monument to the confederacy stood for more than 110 years in the town square before it was dismantled in 2020.

"Work crews gently rested the 12-foot-tall (3.7-meter-tall) statue into place as the internationally acclaimed sculptor, Basil Watson, looked on carefully.

"'It’s exciting to see it going up and exciting for the city because of what he represents and what it’s replacing,' Watson said, as he assisted with the install process.

"Lewis was known for his role at the front lines of the #CivilRights Movement and urged others to get in '#GoodTrouble' for a cause he saw as vital and necessary. In DeKalb County where the Confederate monument stood for more than a century, protesters have invoked 'good trouble' in calling for the swift removal of the obelisk."

https://apnews.com/article/john-lewis-bronze-statue-replaced-confederate-georgia-b0c51086a4b83750ff38b1af2167abde

Georgia replaces #confederate monument with bronze statue of late Rep. #JohnLewis #GoodTrouble

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4832700-georgia-john-lewis-bronze-statue-courthouse/