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None Dare Call It Treason
Via Job’s Angerhttp://jobsanger.blogspot.com/2017/10/they-were-traitors.html.
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Still Rising Again after All These Years
Paul Krugman discusses how the legacy of slavery still taints the United States, using the Virginia gubernatorial race as a springboard. A snippet (emphasis added): Here’s how that might happen: Ed...
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Still Rising Again after All These Years
All fired up in the Tarheel state. Afterthought: As a Virginian, I have been puzzled for many years by this question: Why the heck would anyone step in tar? That stuff’s hot!
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Still Rising Again after All These Years
Brian K. Fennessy looks up the history of Confederate statues. What he finds is no surprise: they were statues to racism. Here’s the nugget: . . . I searched for dedication speeches that were given at...
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Still Rising Again after All These Years
The attempt to prettify slavery and romanticize slaveholders continues apace.
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Still Rising Again after All These Years
Field reports from the field. A snippet: At a campaign event earlier this year, an audience member asked Moore for his opinion on when the last time America was “great.” Moore responded: “I think it...
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Flagging Interests
In The Roanoke Times, retired professor George McDowell discusses the dispute over the display of the Confederate Battle Ensign and monuments to the supporters of slavery and secession and does so with...
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Still Rising Again after All These Years
Charles Finn eviscerates the rationalizations of the secesh and their sycophants in a searing screed.
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Still Rising Again after All These Years
Tony Norman suggests that refusal of “Judge” Roy Moore to concede defeat in the Alabama Senatorial race is a fitting analogy to the Southern myth of the “Lost Cause.” A snippet: Long after Roy Moore is...
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Still Rising Again after All These Years
Solomon Jones finds it–let’s see–willfully blind that in the face of a lifetime of Donald Trump’s racist behavior some persons are only just now discovering Donald Trump’s racism. He suggests that...
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Limitations of Statues
A letter-writer to the Raleigh News and Observer spots a false equivalence.
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Still Rising Again after All These Years
Writing at Raw Story, Chauncey Devega explores the fealty of many white folks to the Stars and Bars and all it stands for. He minces no words. A nugget: The Republican Party, as I have contended on...
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Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery
Speed Trumps in the parking lot. A white man in Georgia was arrested after he was caught on camera going off on a profane, racist tirade against a black teacher in a shopping center parking lot. (snip)...
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