Most people agree that slavery was one of the worst atrocities in our U.S. history. What I don’t understand is how Trump and the Republican Party can claim to agree with that, yet still express outrage over our country celebrating the end of slavery—one of the darkest chapters in America’s past.
And they really, really don't want people to know/teach that TX was explicitly founded on the principle of "All men are NOT created equal, slavery forever!"
The ethnic cleansing and near genocide of the indigenous population was also fairly bad.
Simple: they're lying. If you ask the right questions, and they're honest, you'll hear all about how the civil war was about state rights and not slavery. You might even hear the incredibly absurd claim that slaves were a part of the family and had it good.
We knew instantly what they were all about with this MAGA bullsh!t.
Thank you for posting..
They don’t think, they don’t make mental and emotional connections and then draw conclusions. Anything that gets in the way of their own self interest and their own nurtured hate is just dismissed from the equation. When a majority is like that a society has fascism. Liberal democracy is dead
White conservatives are terrified of their supremacy being challenged, and thus are easily conned by a grifter selling snake oil. Nothing to be confused by, it's the oldest con in the world.
Because Trump and the GOP really don't care about real history. Slavery, Japanese internment camps... If you don't talk about it or teach it or even allow books about it, it must not have happened
It's called caucasity beloved 🤷🏾
Have those scumbags repealed Juneteenth as a federal holiday (not sure whether that’s the right terminology)? Genuinely asking, not pushing back on your statement, as I’d be v. surprised if they haven’t in one of those dumb sharpie EOs.
Prison labor continues the tradition. And I doubt they actually agree.
They identify with their ancestors a bit too much, methinks. Anything that makes them look bad has to be swept under the rug and quietly forgotten.