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Nikki Haley Implodes When Asked About Slavery
When asked what was the cause of the Civil War, Nikki Haley mentioned freedom and capitalism, but she refused to say anything about slavery.
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Kamala Harris Crushes Ron DeSantis’s Slavery Debate Dreams
Vice President Kamala Harris rejected Gov. Ron DeSantis’s invitation to debate his pro-slavery educational curriculum in Florida.
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Just When You Thought That Things Couldn’t Worse For Ron DeSantis, They Did
Gov. Ron DeSantis is now being criticized by 3/5ths of the elected black Republicans in Congress after his comments on slavery as his odds of a political comeback dim.
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White Fox News Guy Jesse Watters Says Kamala Harris And MSNBC Are Lying About Slavery
Jesse Watters claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris and MSNBC are lying about slavery and that it is a fact that being enslaved allowed African-Americans to learn skills and become resilient.
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Eric Swalwell Explains In 1 Sentence Why Ron DeSantis Is Pro-Slavery
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) explained briefly and simply how Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is pro-slavery.
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WATCH: Fox News Guest Claims Slavery Wasn’t a Racist Thing
Now that Joe Biden is president and things are going reasonably well, Fox News has decided to stop talking about political issues. Instead, the network is very focused on Critical Race Theory, an advanced class typically taught at law schools. But instead of explaining what CRT is, the personalities on Fox stoke racial tension. A…
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WATCH: Ben Carson Suggests Welfare Has Hurt Black Americans More Than Slavery
Most of Donald Trump 2016 opponents for the Republican nomination fought him until the end. Ben Carson, though, capitulated earlier than the rest. And in return, the neurosurgeon was given a plum position in Trump’s cabinet. As the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Carson seemed more interested in cutting costs than actually helping people….
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Barr Shows His True Colors By Comparing Lockdowns To Slavery
The Attorney General of the United States, William Barr, compared lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic to slavery.
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Tom Cotton’s 1619 Project Legislation Highlights Ignorance Of Political Economy and History
As is now widely known, the Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton recently proposed legislation that would deny federal funding to schools that in any way used the The New York Times controversial 1619 project in its curriculum. This series in The New York Times, of course, explores the history of the United States through the…
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Kanye West Claims Harriet Tubman Didn’t “Free the Slaves” as He Launches Presidential Campaign
Kanye West criticized Harriet Tubman during the first event of his presidential campaign on Sunday. The rapper took aim at the 19th century anti-slavery campaigner for unknown reasons. West spoke at a campaign rally in South Carolina and claimed Tubman “never actually freed the slaves. She just had the slaves go work for other white…
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Trump Tells African Americans Protesting Confederate Statues To Learn History
Donald Trump thinks African Americans should learn U.S. history rather than campaign for the removal of Confederate monuments. The President has been vocal in his defense of statues depicting racist leaders. Trump spoke to Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade for a special on Sunday. Kilmeade asked the President about the controversial monuments to the Confederate leaders…
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Opinion: Lindsey Graham Exemplifies Racist Incoherence Complaining About Monument Removal
Many Americans have been compelled by the recent mass protests to seek a fuller understanding of United States history and particularly the African American experience in that history, up to and including ongoing racism, discrimination, and violence against people of color. Black bookstores in particular are being flooded with orders for literary works that portray…
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Trump Told Historian That He Could Have ‘Done a Deal’ to Stop the Civil War
“He told me a year and a half ago or so, a year ago, that, you know, he thought he could have done a deal to have averted the war.”
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Trump Doubles Down On His Civil War Idiocy By Claiming Andrew Jackson Was A Psychic
After being called out for his poor grasp of history, Trump just made matters much worse.
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Trump Idiocy on the Civil War: ‘Why Could That One Not Have Been Worked Out?’
“People don’t ask that question. But why was there a Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?”
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Virginia Republican Compares Politicians Removing Confederate Monuments to ISIS
Stewart says “Nothing is worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his monuments don’t matter,” but he’s wrong. Defending them is worse
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Trump’s Former Virginia Chair Goes Full-On Racist Confederate in Bid for Governor
“Inspired by Trump, his former Virginia chair runs the ‘most openly Confederate-friendly campaign in recent memory'”
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Corrupt Tom DeLay Calls President Obama a “Professional Racist”
“When is he [President Obama] going away? My goodness gracious. This is just unbelievable, but you know, he’s never gotten over his racism.”
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GOP Congressman Claims Institutional Racism Can Be Cured by the Bible
Apparently, if African-Americans had a Bible-based moral education, they wouldn’t mind being gunned down by the police for no reason whatsoever
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NRA Calls Slavery Apologist Newsletter ‘Astute’ and ‘Timely’
Jeff Cooper’s newsletter was unabashadly pro-black slavery but the NRA’s Frank Winn says racial slurs are “erudite” and support for the institution of slavery “timely”
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Bill O’Reilly Thinks Slavery is Okay if You Feed and House Them
Denial of reality is alive and well in Republican ranks. We have already seen how right-wing talking heads exploded at Michelle Obama’s words about the White House being built by slaves: “That is the story of this country. The story that has brought me to the stage tonight. The story of generations of people who…
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A Happy Thanksgiving to You
Thanksgiving’s origins lie in ancient, pre-Christian harvest festivals which are religious in nature, and have nothing to do with genocide
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This is Republican Immigration Reform: Slavery, Drone Attacks And Shredding the Constitution
Conservative bigots love the idea of shredding the Constitution’s 13th and 14th Amendments in place of actual immigration reform
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Wisconsin Lawmaker Claims Civil War Was Fought to Further a Christian Lifestyle
Lincoln said “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong” while the Bible says, “Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling”
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Racist Tea Partiers Claim African Americans Take Advantage of Slavery
The anniversary of the end of slavery was remembered by a tea party leader by admonishing African Americans to stop complaining their ancestors were indentured servants.
The Gettysburg Address 150 Years Ago And Now: Lincoln, Obama and The Great Task Remaining
One hundred fifty years later, President Lincoln’s Great Task remains uncompleted.
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Reality Messing with your Narrative? Invent a More Congenial World
Republicans can talk about things that never happened as though they did, but Democrats cannot talk about things that DID actually happen
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America’s Capitalism Has Embraced White Slaves as Well as Black
American capitalism supported white indentured servitude before and alongside black slavery and relinquished it only reluctantly.
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Right Wing Bigots Claim Immigration Reform Path to Citizenship Violates the Bible
Ralph Reed, mistaking the Bible for the US Constitution, believes his holy book should govern US immigration policy
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A Neo-Confederate, a slavery apologist and a death penalty for children advocate walk into an election…
Justice was decisive as she struck down the three GOP ‘stooges’ in Arkansas, best known for hating immigrants, loving slavery and advocating the death penalty for rebellious children.
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Ted Nugent, the Civil War, and the GOP’s Anti-Constitutional Fantasies
Ted Nugent believes we’d be better off if the South had won the Civil War, completely ignoring that states rights was all about slavery
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As Simple As Black and White: The GOP’s Secessionist Dream
It has been 150 years since the Confederacy of Southern States seceded from the United States of America starting the deadliest war in American history. It should be a time to reflect on the disastrous turn of events that ripped America apart with a view toward never taking that terrible path again, but instead, some southern states are celebrating secession with balls and celebrations. As if celebrating America’s darkest times wasn’t bad enough, new talk of secession and nullification signals a long standing hatred of the United States of America by racists in the South, and the hate is spreading across the country.