#Confederate

Gore Center

AGRCatMTSU

5 years ago today, Black students started the latest wave of protests against #ForrestHall at #MTSU, the ROTC building named after Confederate general & KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest. This

David M. Perry

Lollardfish

The vast majority of Americans have voluntarily isolated themselves, at great financial and emotional cost, in order to protect their communities. It's the most impressive civic-minded act I've ever seen

James M. Thomas (JT) 🌹

Insurgent_Prof

Can we talk about one particular part from this exceptional piece of journalism by @kbeccaandrews? (Thread)https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/07/racism-university-mississippi-nickname-ole-miss-confederate-history-elma-meeks/ Our Chan

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southernfren

Smug elitist cosmopolitans will tell you that General Lee and his army were traitors who fought for literally no reason than to preserve slavery, and they are the worst traitors

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(Thread) Get the Fighters FightingIf you're a would-be fascist and losing, what do you do?Two of the tricks in Trump's (limited) bag are: "Get the fighters fighting" and "ignite a

Atomic Squirrel

Correspondguy

@PapaBirdJake, I butted in on a conversation to pick a nit, but it’s a thing that matters a lot to me, so here’s my point: The text of the Constitution

megan squire

MeganSquire0

I'll use this thread to tweet some today about the Alamance County Trump Convoy (co-sponsored by the dregs of neo-Confederate hate group ACTBAC & Alamance Cty Young Republicans). So far

Josh Chafetz

joshchafetz

Because, inevitably, someone will snarkily ask why this is bad while tearing down Confederate statues is good, the answer is simple: these people are acting in support of white supremacism,

Nikki Haley

NikkiHaley

We unfortunately experienced the shooting of Walter Scott and the shootings of Mother Emanuel when I was governor in SC. Times like these are trying and require action.Leaders must act

Barnabas T. Bullion wants you to register to Vote

BTBullion

Everyone who likes Splash Mountain, didn't know about Song of The South, or its source material, or thought that the ride wasn't racist is a racist and a bad person.Okay.

Angela Mayfield

pinkrocktopus

1. Robert E Lee was such a *NOT* great general that he committed treason to lead the army of a country of traitors, and he lost that army’s only war,

Lupe Mendez

thepoetmendez

Yt folks romanticize the founding of Texas: 1)it wasn’t “The South” 2)it was its own nation 3)it was a rebel stateThe truth: broke ass country hick white men didn’t like

Boomer Bear

barefootboomer

#OTD in 1864 the Saltville massacre takes place in Saltville, Virginia. After a day long battle over the local salt works, Confederate home guards and guerillas murder dozens of wounded

Ashton Pittman

ashtonpittman

NEW: Systemic racism built Mississippi. Gov. Tate Reeves claims it doesn't exist.But this isn't a report about what "both sides are saying." This is an in-depth look at the facts—which

Hank Green

hankgreen

I've recently had a few people say something like this to me: "Someday, we might have to tear down statues of Martin Luther King Jr. because he did things that,

David Henson

DavidRHenson

I'm from Alabama. I've driving by Talladega more times than I can remember and it was a sea of Confederate flags and RV campers. It never occurred to me to