removal of confederate statues
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Watch This White Woman Explain to a Black Woman Why Slavery Wasn’t So Bad
After using census reports and cherry-picked facts, a resident of Cobb County, Ga., recently surpassed the record held by Roseanne Barr and Rachel Dolezal on the Becky-ometer, a scientific tool used to measure the caucasity of white women. In a June 12 meeting of the Cobb County Commission, East Cobb County resident Mary Stevens used…
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Tennessee Lawmakers Punish City of Memphis for Removing Confederate Statues
You think you know petty, but do you know Tennessee Legislature petty? Tennessee state lawmakers are still big mad about the removal of a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest—a Confederate general best known for his brutal massacre of black Union soldiers and for being the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard—from a Memphis public park.…