What culture - owning slaves? What heritage - losing wars they started? Fuck Tate Reeves and fuck Confederate traitors who don't remember the last shit-kicking they got.
What's insane is that the Confederacy was only around for around 4 years, yet they claim this is the cornerstone of their 'heritage' well over 150 years later.
I try to explain this to people and they look at me like I’m a madman. The civil war never ended because we allowed their leaders to live and continue planting their seeds of bigotry.
This is an excellent explainer of the mechanisms by which people have been limiting the 14th Amendment since it was passed right after the Civil War "ended". It's both a promising law and tragic how it's been abused.
Lincoln went disgustingly soft on reconstruction, Johnson destroyed it.
Honestly Lincoln cared far more about getting the country together than he did about ending slavery, or attempting to integrate these new freed persons into society. Several times he seriously suggested sending them off to some island to colonize it themselves so he wouldn't have to deal with it.
Also I'd highly encourage anyone to read "Black Reconstruction in America" by Dr. W.E.B. DuBois if you're interested in this kind of thing.
Seems like a great opportunity to shine the spotlight on all the bigoted shit the Confederacy did / stood for, and celebrate the destruction of those traitors.
If we're going to embrace it as our heritage - and we should, cuz it is - it should be with cautionary respect to the evil that many of us succumbed to so that we don't head down that path again.
I aim we honor the southern folk who took up arms and signed up for their country despite the fact that that meant shooting at their racist dipshit neighbors
The Confederacy lost, and were guilty of treason. People want to bring back the Confederacy (actively plotting) - isn't that basically declaring war? Or sedition?
Do as the Germans do.
Confederate supporters are traitors and or terrorists.
I entirely think Germany is right and I even think that works within the frame of the First Amendment because overt racism is an implicit (and even sometimes explicit) threat of violence, which is already not legal. It just needs justices uncorrupt enough to see it that way. Unfortunately, we do not have those justices right now.
I think it's about marketing, if they don't spread their bigotry it'll die out. That's why conservatives are in constant fear of education and letting their kids go off to colleges where they can learn about alternative paths than hate and fear.
Don't apologize for him, am apology means an acceptance of wrong doing and am effort to improve and repair the damages. This dipshit isn't going to do that.
I'm apologizing because apologies need to be made. Repeatedly. As far as I know, I don't have any ancestors that were involved in the Atlantic slave trade, but I have shared in the societal benefits that resulted and I am apologizing because of it. I'm saying it's on his behalf specifically because he will never do so.
Their "heritage" lasted five years. The Obama Administration lasted eight years. The Obama Administration is more of the South's heritage than the Confederacy.
But if you want to celebrate some actual Mississippi heritage, celebrate blues music. Oh wait- that was invented by those people.
I assumed she was losing custody as a result of the difficulties of caring for his medical needs as a single parent. But no, it's because they say she failed to protect her kids from her abuser. Yet when she called for help, what happened? It's the experience of most abused women that there is no help. And worse, that the systems designed to help do more harm. That's certainly the case here.
When Capers arrived at the home, Moore said the police officer commanded everyone to put their hands up, and Aderrien Murry walked out with his hands up. The lawyer said Capers then shot the 11-year-old in the chest.
I guess if cops are threatened by acorns, then an 11-year old kid may as well have been the same as being threatened by a grizzly bear or a terrorist.
A grand jury declined to indict Indianola Police Officer Greg Capers (pictured) on Dec. 14, 2023, after the May 20, 2023, shooting of Aderrien Murry. He remains on the force
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