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alwaysbewoke · 3 months
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Brave, smart man.
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odinsblog · 1 year
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“State’s Rights” is bullshit doublespeak for white supremacy. Keeping lies like, “The Civil War was about state’s rights,” alive is why Republicans are always so anti-education and so pro-book burning. It makes erasure and whitewashing history easier.
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elistodragonwings · 8 months
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Sometimes I see a post going around pointing out that white Southerners do have a tradition of opposing the police and other forms of government control, not just of being the stereotype of the authoritarian religious conservative, which is true, but I ask people to please be careful with that. Some of that history comes from social progressiveness, but some also comes from the white supremacist belief that the US government is illegitimate because the Confederacy was the "real" America.
I can't tell people how to re-contextualize their own history, I just ask that people be aware of how some of these perspectives intersect. Please don't leave the door open for pro-Confederacy arguments to take hold. Recognize the nuance of opposing government actions when they're harmful, not just because they're "government".
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rebelyells · 3 months
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It’s Lee - Jackson Day. Still an official holiday in Virginia hearts and minds!
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animentality · 8 months
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I say this as someone who's from a Confederate state.
I don't understand why southerners are so proud of being traitors to their own country AND losing a war to preserve slavery.
Frankly, I'd be embarrassed, if I was born on American soil and if I was actually related to anyone who was formerly a Confederate.
Like dawg, traitor + YOU LOST + morally indefensible position.
Stop bringing it up. It's embarrassing. You should be embarrassed.
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republicanidiots · 2 years
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Guess which 11 states cause 99% of our problems.
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Update:  The numbers represent the Confederate memorials (including statues, roads, buildings, etc.) in each state. 
Source:  The Southern Poverty Law Center
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theconcealedweapon · 7 months
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One group promotes love and acceptance of those who are different. The other group literally went to war so they could continue trafficking people.
How are they in any way comparable?
Even if you support the right to fly the confederate flag because of free speech, this comparison is ridiculous.
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dailyhistoryposts · 7 months
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On This Day In History
September 1st, 1864: The Confederate Army evacuated Atlanta, Georgia, ending a four-month siege by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman. This was a major victory for the North, helping get Lincoln re-elected and setting the stage for Sherman's March to the Sea, later that same year.
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kemetic-dreams · 3 months
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Aro Confederacy
The Aro Confederacy (1690–1902) was a political union orchestrated by the Aro people, Igbo subgroup, centered in Arochukwu in present-day southeastern Nigeria. The Aro Confederacy kingdom was founded after the beginning of the Aro-Ibibio Wars. Their influence and presence was all over Eastern Nigeria, lower Middle Belt, and parts of present-day Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea during the 18th and 19th centuries. The Arochukwu Kingdom was an economic, political, and an oracular center as it was home of the Ibini Ukpabi oracle, High Priests, the Aro King Eze Aro, and central council (Okpankpo). The Aro Confederacy was a powerful and influential political and economic alliance of various Igbo-speaking communities in southeastern Nigeria. It emerged during the 17th century and played a significant role in the region until the late 19th century.
The exact origins of the Aro Confederacy are not precisely documented, but it is believed to have been established around the mid-17th century. The Aro people, who were part of the Igbo ethnic group, inhabited the region around present-day Arochukwu in Abia State, Nigeria. They were skilled traders and missionaries who played a pivotal role in connecting various Igbo communities. This migration and their military power, and wars with neighboring kingdoms like supported by their alliances with several related neighboring Igbo and eastern Cross River militarized states (particularly Ohafia, Edda, Abam, Abiriba, Afikpo, Ekoi, Bahumono, Amasiri etc.), quickly established the Aro Confederacy as a regional economic power. The Aro Confederacy's strength came from its well-organized network of Aro agents who were dispersed across different communities in the region. These agents acted as intermediaries in trade, diplomacy, and religious matters. They facilitated commerce, resolved disputes, and spread the worship of the Aro deity known as the "Long Juju" oracle."The Opening Up of Nigeria, the Expedition Against the Aros by Richard Caton Woodville II" 1901
The "Long Juju" oracle was the spiritual centerpiece of the Aro Confederacy. It was housed in Arochukwu and considered a potent source of political authority and religious guidance. The Aro people used the oracle to enforce their influence and control over surrounding communities. It also served as a means to administer justice and settle disputes, often attracting pilgrims seeking solutions to their problems.
The Aro Confederacy gained significant economic power through trade and commerce Their economy was primarily based on agriculture, with the cultivation of crops like palm oil, yams, and cassava. They were also involved in trade with neighboring communities and European merchants. They controlled trade routes that passed through their territories, collecting tolls and taxes from traders. The Aro also engaged in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade by capturing and selling slaves to European traders.
Aro activities on the coast helped the growth of city-states in the Niger Delta, and these city states became important centres for the export of palm oil and slaves. Such city-states included Opobo, Bonny, Nembe, Calabar, as well as other slave trading city-states controlled by the Ijaw, Efik, and Igbo. The Aros formed a strong trading network, colonies, and incorporated hundreds of communities that formed into powerful kingdoms. The Ajalli, Arondizuogu, Ndikelionwu, and Igbene Kingdoms were some of the most powerful Aro states in the Confederacy after Arochukwu. Some were founded and named after commanders and chiefs like Izuogu Mgbokpo and Iheme who led Aro/Abam forces to conquer Ikpa Ora and founded Arondizuogu. Later Aro commanders such as Okoro Idozuka (also of Arondizuogu) expanded the state's borders through warfare at the start of the 19th century. Aro migrations also played a large role in the expansion of Ozizza, Afikpo, Amasiri, Izombe, and many other city-states. For example, Aro soldiers founded at least three villages in Ozizza. The Aro Confederacy's power, however, derived mostly from its economic and religious position. With European colonists on their way at the end of the 19th century, things changed.Burning of Arochukwu 1901
During the 1890s, the Royal Niger Company of Britain bore friction with the Aros because of their economic dominance. The Aro resisted British penetration in the hinterland because their economic and religious influence was being threatened. The Aro and their allies launched offensives against British allies in Igboland and Ibibioland. After failed negotiations, the British attempted to conquer the Aro Confederacy in 1899. By 1901, the tensions were especially intensified when British prepared for the Aro Expedition. The invasion of Obegu (in Igboland) was the last major Aro offensive before the start of the Anglo-Aro War. In November 1901, the British launched the Aro Expedition and after strong Aro resistance, Arochukwu was captured on December 28, 1901. By early 1902, the war was over, and the Aro Confederacy collapsed. Contrary to the belief that the Ibini Ukpabi was destroyed, the shrine still exists, and is intact in Arochukwu and serves mainly as a tourist site.
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nando161mando · 1 month
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trump666traitor · 3 months
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azspot · 2 months
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We’ve seen moments like this before. Famously during the Nullification Crisis of the 1830’s and then, eventually, the forming of the Confederate States of America. More recently, President John F. Kennedy was faced with his own crisis when Alabama governor George Wallace defied desegregation orders and forced Kennedy’s hand.
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blueiskewl · 5 months
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Foundry Workers Melt Down Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee Statue
Eventually, an artist will be chosen to transform the bronze bars into a public art installation
The controversial bronze statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that stood for nearly a century in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been melted down so that it may someday be transformed into a public art installation.
On Saturday, at a foundry in an undisclosed location in the American South, workers cut the infamous figure into small pieces, then fed those pieces into a 2,250-degree furnace. They poured the metal into molds for ingots, or rectangular bars, imprinted with the words “Swords Into Plowshares.” That’s the name of the project that will transform the divisive monument into a new piece of public art.
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Only a small group of people, including a handful of journalists, was allowed to watch the melting. They were invited on the condition that they didn’t disclose the name or location of the foundry—or the identities of its workers—over fears of retaliation.
“The risk is being targeted by people of hate, having my business damaged, having threats to family and friends,” says the foundry’s owner, a Black man, to the Washington Post’s Teo Armus and Hadley Green.
Even so, the man added, “When you are approached with such an honor, especially to destroy hate, you have to do it.”
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One particularly poignant moment occurred when foundry workers removed the statue’s face from the rest of the head.
“A man in heat-resistant attire pulled down his gold-plated visor, turned on his plasma torch and sliced into the face of Robert E. Lee,” writes Erin Thompson, an art historian at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and author of Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments, in a guest essay for the New York Times. “The hollow bronze head glowed green and purple as the flame burned through layers of patina and wax. Drops of molten red metal cascaded to the ground.”
The 21-foot-tall statue’s journey to this point was a long and complicated one. Commissioned in 1917 and installed in 1924, it loomed over a downtown Charlottesville park for decades.
In 2017, amid a broader national debate over Confederate monuments, white supremacists gathered in Charlottesville to protest the statue’s removal. During the “Unite the Right” rally, a man drove his car into a group of counter-protesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring many others.
After years of legal battles, the statue finally came down in July 2021. The city donated it to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which has been responsible for it ever since and leads the Swords Into Plowshares project.
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Organizers had wanted to melt down the statue sooner, but they waited until a judge dismissed a lawsuit against the plan.
Because of the statue’s size, the melting process will take weeks. Once that work is finished, project organizers will move on to the next phase of their plan: choosing an artist who will transform the metal into something new.
“Humpty Dumpty couldn’t be put back together again,” said Reverend Isaac Collins, a Methodist minister in Charlottesville who spoke at the melting ceremony, per NPR’s Debbie Elliott. “We still have a lot of work to do, but this statue that has cost us so much, so much violence, so much hurt, so much bloodshed—it’s gone. And it’s never going to be put back together the way it was.”
By Sarah Kuta.
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titleknown · 6 months
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...Speaking of magical living vehicles, can we all agree it's bullshit that DC's Haunted Tank is powered by a fucking Confederate general?
Like, fuck that! Fuck those traitors, it should be John Brown in the Haunted Tank! Bring back John Brown's ghost and let him haunt a tank!
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rebelyells · 5 months
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We remember our Ancestors who fought against their cultural extinction. The same applies today. God Bless the Southland! Love this Texas Monument! Keep History Alive. 2,257 Battles were fought to defend their homes.
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