"Let's bitch about Southern/Confederate History!" NSFW warning

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 9, 2017

Johnny_Reb_1865 from Virginia, even General Lee, your kinsman was sorry and wanted oblivion.

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 13, 2017

Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and "Nashville" based her lyrics for this song on a 19th-century slave's memoir.

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 13, 2017

not done bitching:

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 16, 2017

Johnny_Reb_1865 said: ↑

Actually quite a few statues were erected during the years after the war starting in 1866.

Steve Banon wants a cultural war, let's have it: I have Johney Cash on my side.

Calle#1 · Oct 17, 2017

KittyKatSpanker said: ↑

Steve Banon wants a cultural war, let's have it: I have Johney Cash on my side.

Do you still have Marty Rathbun on your side?

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 19, 2017

Calle#1 said: ↑

Do you still have Marty Rathbun on your side?

Never expected him to be. I mean never expected it to go both ways.

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 22, 2017

FUCK THAT

Johnny_Reb_1865 said: ↑

Actually quite a few statues were erected during the years after the war starting in 1866.

FUCK THE CONFEDERACY :

HEEY JOHNEY REB where arte though ?

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 22, 2017

The Pernicious Myth of the ‘Loyal Slave’ Lives on in Confederate Memorials

Statues don’t need to venerate military leaders of the Civil War to promulgate false narratives

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The Internet · Oct 25, 2017

Some good info on the "Lost Cause" 100 year mindfuck inflicted upon our nation, making it more stupid than necessary.

When future generations try to understand how the most powerful nation in the world stumbled into such self-deception and willful blindness that a 200 degree planet became a real possibility, I bet the "Lost Cause" bullshit will get a mention.

Lol at negroes frolicking.

Also lol at me for "future generations."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...phen-hawking-escape-earth-20170505-story.html

The Internet · Oct 25, 2017

Few weeks ago I learned some stuff about Christopher Columbus I hadn't heard before. Holy fuck that guy might be the worst person who has ever lived.

Bobadilla collected the testimonies of 23 people who had seen or heard about the treatment meted out by Columbus and his brothers. "Even those who loved him had to admit the atrocities that had taken place," Ms Varela said.

Columbus and his brothers were forced to travel back to Spain. Columbus was in chains but, although he never recovered his titles, he was set free and allowed to sail back to the Caribbean.

"Columbus and his brothers come across in the text as tyrants," Ms Varela said. "Now one can understand why he was sacked and we can see that there were good reasons for doing so.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/aug/07/books.spain

My school textbooks never mentioned that Columbus was sacked by the King due to atrocities. That was apparently a known fact when I was a kid although details about those atrocities came out fairly recently.

The colony Columbus formed in what is now the Dominican Republic started with a native population of about 300,000. A few years later there were only a few hundred natives left alive. These people died from cruelties you might imagine in a horror movie --body parts hacked off as punishments for minor infractions, or on a whim; mass suicides out of despair.

No way does Columbus deserve the honor of a national holiday.

You see Johnny_Reb, new evidence comes in I didn't learn about in school and I can change my views. So how come you are still stuck in Lost Cause lies?

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 26, 2017

Johnny_Reb_1865 said: ↑

Actually quite a few statues were erected during the years after the war starting in 1866.

The Internet · Oct 26, 2017

Maybe Johnny_Reb will say I want to erase the history of Christopher Columbus. I will answer, "Okay buddy you got me there." Because I do want to erase Columbus as best I can. In a certain social way that will not change the known facts.

Some people want to change our October holiday from, "Columbus Day" to "Indigenous Peoples' Day." I can live with that but I feel the fix does not go far enough. Like if we had a Hitler day then realized our mistake, a "Jew Day" would not be an acceptable fix. The tangential reference to the fucking asshole is still too much.

"Fuck that guy day" would be slightly better. But we have kids who need some innocence for a few years. So "Autumn Day" or "Leaf Day" or something seasonally appropriate would get my vote. Let Nature devour our celebratory false memories of Columbus. She's aces at devouring.

BTW, the Nina, the Pinta, the Santa-Maria were the names of famous Spanish whores. Columbus' ships had other names. Just another bit of history our teachers got wrong.

Johnny_Reb_1865 · Oct 28, 2017

The Internet said: ↑

Maybe Johnny_Reb will say I want to erase the history of Christopher Columbus.

Nope, not even close to what I think about the history of Columbus.

Johnny_Reb_1865 · Oct 28, 2017

KittyKatSpanker said: ↑

Why Spanker! I am pleasantly surprised!

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 28, 2017

Johnny_Reb_1865 said: ↑

Why Spanker! I am pleasantly surprised!

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 28, 2017

I pledge to fight the confederacy wherever it raises its ugly head. For it is the vehicle of blatant racism. I will fight the confederacy untill the day I die, for it is not dead yet.

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 28, 2017

Johnny_Reb_1865 said: ↑

Protesters? More like Rioters....

But it's okay because the law is coming for them one by one....eight of them so far and all have felony charges on them.

Johnny_Reb_1865 said: ↑

Actually quite a few statues were erected during the years after the war starting in 1866.

Johnny_Reb_1865 said: ↑

Believe it or not I actually have a life. : )

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 28, 2017

οrnery · Oct 29, 2017

Uncle Ruckus from the Boondocks retells Johnny_Reb's version of slavery...

KittyKatSpanker · Oct 31, 2017

The Fix
Analysis

The Trump administration’s soft spot for the Confederacy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...t-for-the-confederacy/?utm_term=.e93833e0515d

But pushback to Kelly isn't solely — or even primarily — rooted in politics. The concern with Kelly's statement is how historically inaccurate it is.
One person pushing back on the legacy of the Confederacy is the Rev. Rob E. Lee, who is an indirect descendant of the Confederate general and an anti-racism activist.
“It is clear to me that General Kelly sees honor in a man who fought for continued enslavement of people and chattel slavery,” Lee told the Fix. “That is, after all, what states’ rights was for. There is no honor in that to me. John Kelly would be best to keep our president from tweeting and enacting racist policies, rather than engaging in a debate over the racist past of the South.”

KittyKatSpanker · Nov 8, 2017

Northam calls for taking down Confederate statues in Virginia and moving them to museums

By Andrew Cain | Richmond Times-Dispatch

Aug 16, 2017

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http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/p...cle_85c046d0-82d7-11e7-ad46-17e58417b6d2.html

KittyKatSpanker · Nov 8, 2017

http://richmondmagazine.com/news/news/the-real-story-of-our-monuments/

'The Real Story of Our Monuments'

Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney announces a commission tasked with correcting what he terms a false narrative
by Harry Kollatz Jr.
June 22, 2017

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Perhaps one of the most-recognized names from the Civil War and Richmond history, Gen. Robert E. Lee is memorialized on Monument Avenue. (Photo courtesy: Josh Rinehults/Getty Images)
From the beginning, the Robert E. Lee monument has stood at the center of disputes. The location, whether the piece should include allegorical figures, and even its height were argued over. The renowned French sculptor Antonin Mercié, who made the piece, replaced the Confederate general’s mount, Traveller, with a French thoroughbred that was a gelding. Unlike the other statutes that followed, no description is given of Lee’s battles or his achievements, just his surname in shouting all caps: LEE.

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The unveiling of the Robert E. Lee statue on May 29, 1890
In 1890, nobody needed an explanation.
“The Lost Cause was their story,” Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney said Thursday at a City Hall news conference announcing the formation of a Monument Avenue Commission and working group. “And they stuck to it. But it was not history,” he emphasized. Rather, it was a selective reinterpretation that emphasized the power of the white power structure. “In fact, it was nostalgia masquerading as history. But over decades, this nostalgia became embedded and subsequently a part of our history, part of the false narrative — the alternative facts, if you will — that we will begin to fact-check, starting today.”
John Mitchell Jr., the crusading African-American editor of the Richmond Planet and a member of the city’s Board of Aldermen, objected to monument’s symbolism.
“The men who talk most about the valor of LEE, and the blood of the brave Confederate dead are those who never smelt powder or engaged in the battle,” he wrote in 1890. “Most of them were at a table, either on top or under it when the war was going on.” The proliferation of Lost Cause adornments throughout Richmond angered Mitchell, who was born into slavery. He insisted that a Lee statue would bequeath to the future a “legacy of treason and blood.” In a further wrinkle, African-American laborers helped build the pedestal and place the massive statue upon the base. Mitchell suggested that the black men who put up the statue should, if that time came, be present to take it down.
His words reverberate today throughout the country, and their echoes could be heard in Stoney’s presentation. Though his delivery was passionate, he didn’t go far as Mitchell. He noted how Monument Avenue developed around the Lee statue as a means to sell real estate. (A national financial collapse delayed much of the building until about 1905, however.)
Among a welter of challenges is that the city doesn’t have jurisdiction over all the monuments. The Commonwealth of Virginia owns Lee.

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Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney (file photo)
Stoney reiterated at the news conference that when running for office, he stated that the Monument Avenue statues require context — “an explanation of what they actually are, who built them, why they were built and how they came to preside over the culture of this city.”
Stoney has impaneled a serious and credentialed group. Its task is to not only figure out a way to present Monument Avenue in the light of present times but also, Stoney said, to consider “new monuments that would reflect a broader, more inclusive story of our city.”
The commission is co-chaired by Gregg Kimball, director of education and outreach for the Library of Virginia, and Christy Coleman, CEO of the American Civil War Museum. Kimball authored “American City, Southern Place,” and as curator of the Valentine museum during the 1990s, he organized what was then an unprecedented examination of the Jim Crow era. In recent years, the Library of Virginia has featured large exhibitions pertaining to Richmond’s role in the slave trade and Reconstruction. Coleman is former director of African-American interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg. Prior to the American Civil War Museum post, she was president and chief executive of Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the largest of its kind in the nation.
Earlier this year, Richmond magazine hosted a series of discussions titled “The Unmasking: Race and Reality in Richmond.” On a panel addressing “The Backstory Breakdown,” which covered a wide range of topics, several members who are now serving on this new commission spoke about the subject of Monument Avenue.
Kimball observed then that Monument is one of the few grand boulevards that exist in the United States. “It’s really a remarkable place. The ideology which built it, I have no interest in defending, obviously. But at the same time, [the monuments] should be interpreted correctly. Let’s talk about what these statues really do mean.”
In his view, the best Confederate monument in Richmond is the Hollywood Cemetery pyramid, “because it’s about loss. And, perhaps not surprisingly, women built it.” He added that Richmonders are chauvinistic about their history. “The problem is, we really don’t know our history.”

KittyKatSpanker · Nov 8, 2017

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Johnny_Reb_1865 said: ↑

What sort of Confederate monuments should be removed?

KittyKatSpanker · Nov 8, 2017

Johnny_Reb_1865 said: ↑

Ugh! I see another Charlottesville!

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KittyKatSpanker · Dec 13, 2017

We must Free the slavers in the south:

KittyKatSpanker · Dec 15, 2017

YES, I am not done yet bitching:

KittyKatSpanker · Dec 18, 2017

United States presidential election in Virginia, 1948

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Virginia,_1948
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Main article: United States presidential election, 1948

United States presidential election in Virginia, 1948

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November 2, 1948

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Nominee

Harry S. Truman

Thomas E. Dewey

Strom Thurmond
Party

Democratic

Republican

Dixiecrat
Home state

Missouri

New York

South Carolina
Running mate

Alben W. Barkley

Earl Warren

Fielding L. Wright
Electoral vote

11

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0
Popular vote

200,786

172,070

43,393
Percentage

47.89%

41.04%

10.35%

President before election
Harry S. Truman
Democratic
Elected President
Harry S. Truman
Democratic
The 1948 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 2, 1948 throughout the 48 contiguous states. Voters chose eleven representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.
Virginia voted for the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Harry S. Truman, over the Republican nominee, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey and South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond, who received the nomination of the States’ Rights Democratic Party. Truman ultimately won the national election with 49.55 percent of the vote.
As of 2017, this is the last election in which the Fifth Congressional District has supported a Democratic Presidential candidate. It is also the last election when Chesterfield County, Hanover County, King William County, Lancaster County, Middlesex County, Orange County and Lynchburg City have supported a Democratic Presidential nominee.[1] Henrico County would never vote Democratic again at a Presidential level until 2008, Albermarle County and Danville City not until 2004, Prince Edward County not until 1996 and Amelia County not until 1976.[1]

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Actually quite a few statues were erected during the years after the war starting in 1866.

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