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  1. xoxodede

    You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument

    The black people I come from were owned and raped by the white people I come from. Who dares to tell me to celebrate them? NASHVILLE — I have rape-colored skin. My light-brown-blackness is a living testament to the rules, the practices, the causes of the Old South. If there are those who want...
  2. I

    SEC Lays the Hammer on Mississippi: Update - MS Gov Signing Bill to Remove Confederate Emblem

    :wow: About damn time. Happy Junteenth. :blessed: ..…….................... SEC Warns Mississippi Over Confederate Emblem on State Flag The league’s statement will place new pressure on Mississippi lawmakers. But it may not make much difference. *******UPDATE******** :wow:
  3. I

    Monument of Mounted Black Man in Dreads to be Moved to the Capital of the Confederacy

    He looks like a man lost in time, uprooted,with the horse he rode in on, from a previous century, perhaps, or was it a future one? In a riot of flashing neon signs and costumed avengers, populating a patch of Times Square on Broadway between 46th and 47th Streets, he can be seen looking regal...
  4. Rhapscallion Démone

    New monument to African Americans would join the Confederate statues at the Raleigh NC Capitol

    New monument to African Americans would join the Confederate statues at the Capitol BY DAWN BAUMGARTNER VAUGHAN JULY 16, 2019 01:15 PM RALEIGH Schoolchildren are the most frequent visitors to the state Capitol grounds in downtown Raleigh, and so they are the target audience for a planned...
  5. Jimi Swagger

    “Uncivil”: The Civil War Stories We Didn’t Learn in School

    “Uncivil,” an excellent new podcast about the Civil War hosted by Jack Hitt and Chenjerai Kumanyika, begins with a visit this summer to a controversial statue. It doesn’t involve Robert E. Lee or the Confederate flag, they tell us: it’s the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C., which was...
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