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"Sectional feeling no longer holds back the love we feel for each other. The old flag again waves over us in peace with new glories.” Those words were spoken by #President #McKinley during a speech in #Atlanta #OTD in 1898 only four days after the end of the Spanish American War.
By 1898, the #LostCause narrative of the #CivilWar had made much headway in the minds of white Americans, North and South. The #JimCrow South was emerging by the late 19th century and was accompanied by a tidal wave of white supremacist terrorism.
McKinley's message of reunion was only meant for white Americans. Only a month earlier white terrorists violently overthrew #Wilmington, #NorthCarolina's biracial government, killing hundreds of Black Wilmingtonians in the process.
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This photograph of Silas Chandler (right) and Andrew Chandler (left) has been used by Neo-Confederate groups to perpetuate the Black Confederate myth for decades. The following is a 🧵 about who Silas Chandler was and the truth behind this image. 
Silas Chandler was born on January 1, 1837, in Virginia and was enslaved by Roy Chandler. When Roy Chandler received a land grant in Mississippi in 1839 he moved Silas and 38 other enslaved people to a new plantation in Palo Alto, near the town of West Point.
Silas was trained as a carpenter and married an enslaved woman named Lucy Gardner in 1860. He was then forced leave Lucy to join Roy Chandler's son, Andrew, after he enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1861. The photograph is believed to have been taken around that time.
Authorities say white supremacist shooter in Buffalo "acted alone." That is not true. As Dr. King said on murder of Jimmie L. Jackson
"How many other fingers were on that trigger? Every white politician who feeds on prejudice and hatred! . . ."
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"How many other fingers were on that trigger? Every white politician who feeds on prejudice and hatred! . . ."
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With white supremacist propaganda on rise, filling airwaves, & inciting terrorism, it's urgent that students study patterns in history, learn to think critically about messaging, see manipulation at work, ask who profits from racist divide, call out media/pol., & learn to resist.
But GOP is passing laws to ban teaching about white supremacy in history & today. So, racist propaganda can go unchecked. #LostCause
And putting profits from gun sales (& lobby) over people's lives.
So who's "fingers were on that trigger?" -- Dr. King
#TeachTruth #Buffalo💔
And putting profits from gun sales (& lobby) over people's lives.
So who's "fingers were on that trigger?" -- Dr. King
#TeachTruth #Buffalo💔
Opposing commercial determinants of health outcomes may seem like it is a lost cause, but that is cool, as a #LostCause is the only kind really worth striving to overcome. #ThrowbackThursday to 1972.
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Here's the bottom line....the blanket kids gloves treatment given to the #January6th crowd has centuries lasting potential for all further public disobedience, protest&response. The free for all at the U.S. Capitol means the double standard has now meant critique is meaningless.
I don't remember anyone blaming music, or attire or parenting skills or culture or color on #January6th and if you plan to test me...white supremacy can infect anyone...
But tonight there will be right wing vitriol. There will be low key calls for neo-eugenics, there will be shaking of heads by hired Black right-ists who will tweet as their masters bid them....
New Flag, Same #LostCause
How many Confederate battle flags came down this year to be replaced by Trump flags?
Both text & spirit of 1A is clear & correct about flags: you are free to fly and/or burn whatever flag you want, free of government interference, but market can reward and/or punish your actions as it judges them.
