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Confederate Dunce: Alabama Lawmaker Who Honored KKK Grand Wizard Instead of John Lewis Resigns—as Pastor
It takes a staunch commitment to racist foolishness to celebrate the life of a Confederate general and Klan figurehead in 2020. To do so on the very same weekend, in the very same city that civil rights icon John Lewis was being honored? How much harder can you stan Jim Crow? But that is exactly…
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Calls Grow for Republican Alabama State Representative to Resign After Celebrating the Birthday of KKK Leader
Man, white people aren’t even trying to hide it anymore. Which, I suppose, is a good thing, right? We should want the racists to expose themselves. Still, there’s something surreal seeing white people shamelessly indulging their racist beliefs. Take for instance Alabama state Rep. Will Dismukes (R-Prattville), who posted on Facebook that he had a…
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A High School in Virginia Named After Robert E. Lee Will Be Renamed After John Lewis
A school district in Virginia has voted that a high school named after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee will be renamed for Georgia Rep. John Lewis, who died on July 17. CNN reports that the Fairfax County School Board allowed people to submit suggestions for a month, and held a virtual town hall and a…
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Sorry, Virginia: Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax Doesn’t Want to Hear You Wax Poetic About Confederate ‘Heroes’
Southern white men love to memorialize other white men who fought for years to keep African Americans enslaved. It’s the Southern-white-man thing to do to champion the losers of the Confederacy. So, on Monday, when Virginia state Sen. Emmett W. Hanger Jr. (R-Augusta) stood up to lionize the birthday of Confederate Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall”…