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trans-girl-nausicaa · 15 days
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Direct action works.
Shamefully, there used to be a monument to the confederacy in a cemetery in Seattle, Washington until some cool people tore it down.
From the South Seattle Emerald, July 5, 2020:
A group of local activists supportive of racial justice and the Black Lives Matter movement has taken credit for toppling a nearly century-old monument to Confederate Civil War veterans at Lake View Cemetery in Seattle.
First erected in 1926 by The United Daughters of the Confederacy, the granite monument was a product of the Lost Cause movement — a propaganda campaign of historical revisionism employing school textbooks and memorials to shift attitudes toward the Confederacy after the U.S. Civil War.
The “Daughters” had the granite for the monument shipped in from Stone Mountain, GA, which is the birthplace of the modern Ku Klux Klan.
In advancing the Lost Cause Doctrine, groups like the “Daughters” used statues such as the one in Lake View to heroicize Confederate soldiers and also to serve as forbidding symbols of white supremacy to intimidate newly freed Black Americans.
While protestors had petitioned for its removal and city officials had spoken out against the monument over the years, they had little power to remove it, as Lake View Cemetery is privately owned.
Though the monument has been repeatedly vandalized and defaced, including an incident in 2018 when parts of the memorial were busted, it had stood mostly intact for 94 years.
That was until later Friday night/early Saturday morning when local activists decided to take matters into their own hands, toppling the nearly 10-ton structure.
The activists took credit for the toppling in an email sent to the Emerald at 12:12 a.m Saturday, before news of their actions broke:
This monument to the Confederate traitors, who so cherished the practice of enslaving their fellow human beings that they started a war to defend it, has been a blight on our community for far too long. There is no place for monuments such as these in the More Perfect Union, the America that must surely come, for that nation cannot be born until it makes full recompense to the descendants of those enslaved and ceases to justify or cover up its brutal past.
This action is for everyone, living or dead, who has been stolen, murdered, enslaved, raped, tortured, brutalized, terrorized, displaced, incarcerated, colonized, exploited, or separated from land, family, and culture by white supremacy. May the memory of those who have gone home be a blessing to us all, and may their descendants know the peace of true and everlasting justice.
We uplift and center the demands of King County Equity Now and the Poor People’s Campaign and call upon our neighbors to use whatever power they may have to ensure that these demands are met.
Other than saying they were a “group of concerned citizens” worried about “racism in Seattle and in general,” the group did not specifically identify themselves through a spokesperson who wished to remain anonymous.
However, they did say that they consulted with multiple experts and used gear that was rated to move objects that weigh several tons — and they cautioned others about the dangers of tackling similar monuments and suggested taking safety precautions before toppling them.
Seattle City Council Member Tammy Morales, who represents South Seattle, was supportive of the action.
“This monument wasn’t erected to memorialize the deaths of particular individuals. It was erected at a time when Black communities were being terrorized by the KKK in an effort to keep people down. It’s way past time for these monuments to racism to come down,” Morales said in a text to the Emerald.
The Emerald has reached out to representatives of Lake View Cemetery for comment.
The rubble was later removed from the site by Lake View Cemetery.
As of March 14, 2024 there are no plans to rebuild the monument.
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kingoftheu · 6 months
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The one thing about Annabeth's casting is that they ARE gonna gave to rewrite the Confederate Zombies scene in Sea of Monsters but OTOH they do have a golden opportunity to have Annabeth Chase murder a bunch of Confederates.
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deadpresidents · 4 months
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Did the confederacy have a supreme court and if so who was the chief justice
The structure of the Confederate government, as shaped by the Constitution of Confederate States of America, was very similar to that outlined by the United States Constitution with the three branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial. The Confederacy was attempting to stand up a new federal government of their own while also staying true to their supposed adherence to the importance of the rights of each of the individual states that had seceded from the Union before forming the Confederacy, so that caused many complications with getting the institutions of government off the ground, especially since they were in the midst of a brutal war of rebellion.
Given those complications, it's actually kind of surprising how successful they were in getting the Executive and Legislative branches started, first provisionally and then officially after their first federal elections. However, formally establishing the Supreme Court defined by the Confederate Constitution (in Article III, just as in the United States Constitution) was something that never happened, so there was no judiciary above the level of District Courts and no Chief Justice nominated by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. As in the United States, the President of the Confederacy was responsible for appointing federal judges and while the Supreme Court was never established, President Davis did appoint District Court judges -- many of whom had previously been the U.S. District Court judge for that particular jurisdiction prior to secession.
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leftistfeminista · 1 year
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How Southern slavery fulfilled the White Male’s fantasy of owning white women as sex slaves
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_slave_propaganda
While owning and abusing humans of any race or look is equally wrong, it is revealing how sick and hypocritical race-based Southern slavery was even within the logic of its own twisted white supremacist ideology and morality. 
Because of the 1-drop rule it didn’t matter how white, “African” slaves became in phenotype or even genotype after generations of rape. 1/8th or 1/16th or 1/32. And this was by design. This was a feature not a bug. The intention was to breed white female sex slaves, who were African under the law. Thomas Jefferson owned as property a 3/4th white 14 year old girl, who had the same father as his dead wife, and looked like her twin. 
Sadly, human empathy wasn’t very developed in the 1800s USA, and the only way to get Northern whites to feel sympathy was to illustrate these cases of “white slavery”. The famous novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin features Eliza, who is to all appearances white. This is the sickness and perversion romanticized in the Old South and Confederate flag. 
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/07/01/white-slave-propaganda-images-light-skinned-former-slaves-elicit-sympathy-northern-wealthy-donors-1860s/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_slave_propaganda
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tomorrowusa · 8 months
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A new Florida classic about slavery: "Uncle Ron's Cabin"
An additional tie-in to the Confederacy: the DeSantis campaign is becoming the lost cause of 2023.
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Anyone who argues for Confederate statues because they “are a part of history and you can’t change history” is fucking stupid. Tell me, when was the last time you learned history from a statue?? Never?? Yeah, that’s because we learn history from websites and books.
Statues don’t help us remember history. They help us glorify it.
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Lime King,Ice Cream Countess,and Jefferson Davis.
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pattern-53-enfield · 2 years
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“Blue and Gray”, by @sashaotaku
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scconfederate · 2 years
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Happy 214th birthday to Confederate States President Jefferson F. Davis!
June 3rd, 1808 - December 6th, 1889.
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trilobiter · 1 year
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People like to dunk on those who fly the Confederate flag and babble about their "heritage" by reminding them how hilariously brief and unsuccessful the existence of the CSA was. But I think they're not giving them credit for all the heritage the Confederate flag represents.
After all, it also represents over a century and a half of brutal racist terrorism and a reactionary apartheid culture. That's a lot of heritage!
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deadpresidents · 2 years
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Question about Jefferson Davis-if his term as csa president started before Lincoln's in 1861 why did he not face an election in 1864 like Lincoln did? When was the 1st term of Davis supposed to end
Good question!
You're correct in noting that Jefferson Davis took office as President of the Confederate States of America shortly before Lincoln took office. Davis was inaugurated on February 18, 1861 and Lincoln's first inauguration was March 4, 1861. And Lincoln had to win re-election in November 1864 before being inaugurated for his second term on March 4, 1865.
The difference is that Davis was only the "provisional" President of the Confederacy in the first year of the war. After secession began following Lincoln's election in November 1860 (while President Buchanan was a lame duck), delegates from the states that had seceded met in a Constitutional Convention to officially form the Confederacy and choose its initial leaders. While former U.S. Senator Robert Toombs of Georgia was given some consideration as President, Davis (with Georgia's Alexander Hamilton Stephens as his Vice President) was unanimously chosen as Confederate President by the delegates. But events were moving really quickly: Davis was inaugurated in Montgomery, Alabama -- the site of the Confederacy's Constitutional Convention -- just nine days after he was chosen as provisional President.
There was an actual Confederate Presidential election held in November 1861 (the mechanisms of the election were virtually identical to how the President of the United States was elected at the time). Davis and Stephens were unopposed, so they easily won re-election. Davis was inaugurated for what was intended to be his full Presidential term on February 22, 1862 (George Washington's birthday) in Richmond, Virginia, which had been chosen as the Confederacy's permanent capital by that point.
While the Confederate Constitution was very similar to the U.S. Constitution, there were some differences which help answer your question about when Davis's Presidential term was "supposed" to end. The Confederate Constitution limited the President to a single, six-year term*, so had the Civil War continued, Jefferson Davis would have been ineligible to seek re-election for another term, his full term would have ended on February 22, 1868 and he would have been succeeded by whomever had won the 1867 election. But, of course, none of that happened.
(*The single, six-year term for the President of the United States is an idea that has been debated throughout American history and at least sixteen U.S. Presidents have endorsed the idea, including Jimmy Carter. The Confederate Constitution also gave the President of the Confederacy a line-item veto -- a power which nearly every President of the United States has begged for over the years. Congress actually passed a law authorizing a federal line-item veto in 1996 and President Clinton briefly exercised that power that most of his predecessors and successors enthusiastically called for, but the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.)
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realhankmccoy · 2 months
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People act like racism and exclusion are now ancient history. Hardly -- you can see it in what they vote for, their anxieties and their residential choices... all sorts of things. Hiding the truth of their feelings doesn't work very well when it's written all over them. This school in Mississippi was refusing to have a racially integrated prom in 2008. Morgan Freeman was from there and offered to pay for the whole prom if they integrated and stopped having a white queen and a black queen. They turned him down the first time.
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tomorrowusa · 2 years
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^^^ A training session at the new Ron DeSantis Slavery Museum.
You can’t imagine the promotional items sold at the museum store. 😳
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