#Slavery

Every year on Memorial Day I think about David Blight's 2001 book Race and Reunion. A former coworker / Civil War buff recommended it to me. Still gets less attention
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1/Let's talk about the lying going on in this study that says "white evangelicals" have the highest levels of "racial resentment"We need to understand why they do stuff like this
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Leftists shouldn’t court racists, sexists, LGBTQphobes just because they belong to the working class. POC, women, and LGBTQ people ALSO belong to the working class and they deserve to feel
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Quite often, Western European countries (Spain, Portugal, France, etc.) are accused of building their economy via the slave trade in the Early modern era. All this is presented as the
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What was remarkable about the Trump American history conference was the sense -- at least simply based on the list of participants and Trump's speech itself -- that they've lost
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The National Trust has the purpose of the permanent preservation of lands and buildings of beauty and historic interest - and of promoting them for everybody to enjoy. The Charity
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The attempt to redefine racism away from the dictionary definition into the "systemic privilege" one is, imo, an attempt to remove the intensely horrible associations with actual racism, to minimize
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Every time I mention women’s rights, I get told that God loves women so much, there is (1) entire surah dedicated to them! So let us look at Surah Nisa.
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I have been inspired to do a thread on the 1619 Project. Here is more from NHJ: Then I would like to point out that it has been discredited.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/historians-clash-1619-project/604093/ I'll
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Look Folks I've avoided supporting a President that has been elected my whole voting time, but this impeachment bullshit is gonna make me support Trump because I'm kind of tired
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no nuance november: black kpop stans go so far (1/2) (2/2) u r not oppressed for being a kpop stan n stanning is not a job (1/1) kpop stans love
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When I was 5, we had a set of books about WWII. The cover was a collage of photos, airplanes, soldiers, the atomic bomb, Hitler etc. I noticed pinwheels and
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MOINUDDIN CHISTIThe Ajmer Dargah is an important religious centre for Muslims, and even some Hindus, who visit there to get their wishes fulfilled, the history behind Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti
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I read Titus 2-3 this morning. There’s some tough contextual interpretation needed regarding gender & slavery, but read it simply for the teaching about how we, as followers of Jesus,
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Robert E. Lee is trending. We in the South "need" our myths: the kindly old general who would've whupped them Yankees if given enough time and opportunity. the slave owner
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the fact that post malone IS one of the biggest selling rappers rn is a problem. no white person should have that distinction in a Black art form. like this
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