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Seerut K. Chawla
seerutkchawla
1/ If you have a really painful event/s in your history, an unhealthy (but understandable) way of dealing with it would be to block it out completely and try to
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₁₂₇²⁹water lily princess
chicagocityboy
[LORDE PLAYS AGGRESSIVELY IN THE BACKGROUND] I present to you the og jock x cheerleader trope (ares and aphrodite) i dont like statues but honestly the best part is seeing
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Laura Seay
texasinafrica
Someone set the United Daughters of the Confederacy headquarters in Richmond on fire.https://twitter.com/jahdkhalil/status/1266951898323726336 The United Daughters of the Confederacy is exactly what you think it is; an organization of women
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Mark Durrant
DurrantMark
Love people trying to take a moral highground against dead prophets or founding fathers. Place themselves in that time, place and culture, they'd be racist monsters, at least as seen
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John Leavitt 🌹
LeavittAlone
“You know what happens to comedians when they get old? They start getting offered serious roles. You really want to see me play Arthur Ashe?” “No, you leave him alone!”
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TashaLotti ⭐️⭐️⭐️
TashaLotti
Remember all of the terrorists attacks that usually take place at this time of year, March and April, anyway, one year ago yesterday, Obama, Hillary, Nancy, Warren etc. all tweet
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Generational Resistance
GenResistance
Direct Action can look like many things. Here are some imaginary, non-suggestive, examples of what direct action can be: Taking food from rich grocery stores to give back to community,
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Mike Duncan
mikeduncan
I think this gets it entirely backward. The treason/traitor angle is far less important than WHY the Confederacy went into rebellion and WHY the monuments were later erected. The values
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Salty Mama
SaltyMama10
Last term, my oldest was tasked with coming up with a report on one of the Famous Five. She chose Emily Murphy. By way of background, I’m a historian who
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Ligures Ambrones
LiguresAmbrones
Christianity in art:1) Christian monks destroy Pagan statues and sacred groves;2) Statue of Apollo destroyed (Vatican Museums);3) Pagan library of Alexandria destroyed by Christian fanatics;4) Saint Julian kills his Pagan
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Alex Ford
apf102
First we need to be clear that whilst history might well inform our political choices, what we are mostly talking about in the statues debate is how we choose to
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Kenan Malik
kenanmalik
New CNN/ Savanta ComRes poll on different perceptions of racism from black and white Britons: https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2020/06/europe/britain-racism-cnn-poll-gbr-intl/ 1/ This, incidentally, doesn’t necessarily contradict the f
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Declan Garvey
declanpgarvey
So many problems with The Discourse™ could be solved if agitators who make grand, sweeping statements about opponents—what "they" want/are trying to do—are forced to define who "they" are. "They
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🌼 Bramb 🌿
bramblewave
Hey so talking to .@toddlergurl tonight she reminded me of Storybook Glen, and I want to share some of the nightmare fuel statues from many 80s & 90s Scottish childhoods.You've
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Rebecca Starkey 😷
UChiLibrarian
An interesting experience visiting the UK is to walk through a cathedral over the barely legible inscriptions on the floor about people buried there. Once they were so important to
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iya eh-hee-may
ehimeora
It’s really interesting how they turned Oshun, a fertility orisha, into a sex goddessIt really does make me think of the hyper sexualization of black women in the West, every
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