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An Eyewitness Account 0

Via the Detroit Free Press:

Viola Fletcher tells Congress what she remembers from the race massacre that destroyed her Tulsa community. She can still smell the smoke, she says.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

PragerU wants your kids to be taught that theft of labor is a good thing.

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The Work-Study Program 0

Title:  History of Slavery 101.  Image:  Ron DeSantis stands in front of a plantation house labeled

Via Yellowdoggranny.

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All That Was Old Is New Again, Reprise 0

PoliticalProf.

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All That Was Old Is New Again 0

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Will Bunch sees a parallel:

In the days immediately after the vote, there was a wave of violence. Some people were dragged from their homes by members of a white-hooded mob and killed for supporting the wrong party — but that was only the beginning. A Republican governor wrote to the White House to warn that insurrectionists were plotting to storm the seat of government and prevent certification of the winner.

Gov. Robert K. Scott told the president that loyalists to the party that got fewer voters “will not submit to any election which does not place them in power.” He further warned: “I am convinced that an outbreak will occur here [on] the day appointed by law for the counting of ballots.”

The year was 1870, and the state was South Carolina.

Follow the link for more echoes from the past.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

At AL.com, John Archibald looks at the efforts in some southern states to whitewash–I use that term advisedly–their history of slavery and racism and wonders what all the fuss is about.

After all, he points out, old times there are not forgotten.

Or you could just look down to the Sunstroke State, where Florida Man Ron DeSantis still won’t back down from state board of education standards based on the warped notion that slavery had an upside.

“Slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,” according to Florida’s new social studies standards.

The South – the whole country, really – doesn’t need to study real history anymore.

It’s too busy living it.

Follow the link for the rest.

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One Thing Is Like the Other Thing 0

When I was a young ‘un, back in the olden days, it was perfectly okay to use race to keep persons out of college (and many other places).

Now, per the Supreme Supremacist Court, it’s not okay to use race to help them get into college.

Yup. They are still rising again after all these years.

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Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy has come full circle.

The “Party of Lincoln” is now the “Party of Stinkin’.”

Caption:  History According to DeSantis.  Image:  Abraham Lincoln says,

Image via Juanita Jean.

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On-the-job training, Florida style:

Ron DeSantis gestures towards a nurse who is treated a slave after a whipping and says,

Image via Yellowdoggranny.

Afterthought:

It occurs to me that a case could be made that some states are trying to secede once more all over again, but this time they’ve chosen not to put it in writing.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0

Teacher points at blackboard that reads,

Via Job’s Anger.

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“Theft of labor” and “vocational education” are not synonyms.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

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Arkansas Senator wants to go back to the land of Cotton and to make sure the old times there are not forgotten.

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At the Ames, Iowa, Tribune, Walter Suza explores why some persons are so opposed to DEI (i. e., diversity, equality, and inclusion). A nugget (emphasis added):

This is what DEI is all about. It is an opportunity to bring people together to learn about each other. It is about embracing differences in religion, age, physical ability, gender, national origin and the entire span of human diversity.

DEI is also about becoming willing to admit that inequity has existed in America for so long that it appears as normal. Inequity being normal makes DEI abnormal. The result is some opposing DEI because it threatens their own power or rights , , , ,

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Sometimes, they slip up and show us who they really are.

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Know Them by the Company They Keep 0

Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville and a Klansmen with their arms around each other's back.  Tuberville says,

Via Yellowdoggranny.

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The Whitewash, Reprise 0

Sam and his crew point out that denial is not just a river in Egypt.

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Plus Ca Change 0

At the San Francisco Chronicle, Hakeem Jefferson reminds us that what Frederick Douglass said almost two centuries ago is still true today.

By the by, if you haven’t read Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, you can get it a Project Gutenberg.

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All That Was Old Is New Again 0

Supreme Court Lunch Counter.  Behind the counter hangs a sign reading
Via Juanita Jean.

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Base Desires 0

David Atkins suggests that those who believe that Donald Trump, billionaire donors, or even Fox News is in charge to the Republican Party are, as my old boss would have said, in error. Here’s a bit from his article:

It is difficult to escape the conclusion that the GOP base is in control of the party. Trump succeeds because he appears to be one of them. He vents their rage, watches the same television, shares the same vitriolic personality, and wears the same hatreds. He is less their leader than their reflection. Fox News is expert not at manipulating the base—though its editorial choices do certainly accomplish that to some extent—but at stoking its outrage. Big donors don’t so much generate the passions around which the base revolves as they help provide the financial fuel to turn those passions into electoral victories and legislative action.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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