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It’s about damned time.

Emma and her guest discuss the birth of a notion: the story of the “Lost Cause” amd the major role played in its creation by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Full Disclosure:

I had ancestors who belonged to the UDC.

Charles M. Blow takes a critical look at the who-shot-john over critical race theory in elementary and secondary schools, where, remember, it is not taught (emphasis added):

While previous fights revolved around desegregation and busing, textbooks and curriculums or equitable school funding, the current battle is over what can be taught. Some conservatives want to call it a backlash against the teaching of the obscure concept of critical race theory, but it isn’t. The teaching of this theory in grade schools was almost nonexistent. It was a construct born in law schools. This is actually about something more fundamental: whether or not schools should teach a full and accurate history of race in America, knowing that it might cause white children discomfort as they are confronted with the reality of what some white people have done.

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Michael in Norfolk points out that Richard Nixon’s loathsome “southern strategy” is alive and well in Virginia’s Republican Party.

The Roanoke Times carries a letter written to the presiding Judge in Floyd County, Virginia, regarding a Confederate monument. Remember, these monuments were erected around the beginning of the Twentieth Century to remind black persons of “their place.”

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In his letter to [Roanoke County Board of Supervisors] Chairman Peters, Judge Dorsey recounts looking out his window in the courthouse and seeing a young African-American walk by the statue shaking her head in anger, disgust and bewilderment. In other words, the statue is not a conceptual barrier to justice. It is real barrier to justice to African-Americans who pass by the Roanoke statue as well as those who pass by the statue in front of the Floyd Courthouse everyday.

A twit who is still rising again.

The Republican Party is the party of racism.

Florida Men.

Via Juanita Jean.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans (a group which glorifies treasonous insurrectionis–oh,never mind files suit against limitations of statues.

In a larger article over the (frankly, ginned up and phony) fuss over critical race theory, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Bill Torpy includes this observation, almost as an aside:

But just maybe there has been some movement. When I moved to Georgia three decades ago, a friend brought me by the historical marker near the arch at the University of Georgia. It spoke about the “War of Northern Aggression.”

The last time I looked at the sign, perhaps a year ago, it had changed to the “War for Southern Independence.”

I suppose that’s progress.

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The Seattle Times’s Naomi Ishisaka explains.