I prefer to observe the traditional date of April 26th, when General Johnston surrendered to General Sherman at Bennett Place in Durham, NC, in the final surrender of the war.
We never really cemented the *win*, so they've been busy breeding a new army of hate to teach good Americans a lesson for taking away their "way of life"
Similar to why I keep X Gon' Give It To Ya in my song rotation, because someone paired it with Richard Spencer getting punched by a Black Bloc person and a reminder that fascists can be brought down is nice
and the terrible cost of the Confederacy's commitment to the slavery regime: 100s of thousands dead, 100s of thousands disabled. 1.5 million is the typical causality count (killed, disabled, missing).
As I white person I am so embarrassed that it took me so long to notice that we didn't have any major holidays celebrating beating the shit out of the confederacy
At least the company I now work for (which is French!) recognizes Juneteenth
I live down the street from a house that flies that flag 24/7/365. They actually put up a pole just for that. Meanwhile, they've also had a blue tarp on their roof for almost two yrs. Ok y'all 😒🙄
They’re not coming back cause they never left, since they weren’t given the proper punishment of slavers, traitors and betrayers. To think, all this could’ve been avoided with some rope and a sturdy tree. Just have all the confederate officers, slavers and politicians wait their turn.
This is the America we should be proud of evolving as. I'm taking it all in! ENJOY THE DAY, whomsoever is left of sane America 🇺🇸 Think I'll BBQ some tofu & watch the kid play in the pool ☺️
Trump Claims Nazis Treated Jewish Prisoners With “Love”
Donald Trump made the unbelievable claim during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Donald Trump gestures while speaking and sitting in the Oval Office👹
Today in History: April 9, Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox.
Also this date:
In 1939, Marian Anderson performed a concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., after the Black singer was denied the use of Constitution Hall by Daughters of the American Revolution.
So is having a worthless anti-Democratic party that puts up trash candidates and doesn’t fight for things like judicial reform /expanding the courts / DC statehood / etc
Oh no I know and didn’t mean to imply that you were I was more trying to「 yes-and」you and shine a light on that to them because I suspect they think the Ds are an actual opposition party
I don’t mean literally the south I mean The South™ and that map is not accurate — vast swaths of all those blue states are red states too [ and many cities in most of the red states are not red… not that the democrats anywhere are worth a damn either ]
Definitely not accurate. You can't call a state red or blue. I live in a very large splotch of blue in a so-called red state. We are not a dot of blue. In the midterms, it's going to be losing additional red. Thousands of people who have recently lost their jobs are pissed off.
The Confederacy of the United States effectively ended with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April 9, 1865.
The kids are being given electronic “portals” to “tell on their teachers” if they are being taught anything “DEI”
This to me sounds like what they asked the Nazi youth to do. Rat out your parents and teachers and find books to burn..! There is no difference. History repeats.
When my family move to Louisiana in the 60s, my first class in 8th grade was American History, but it was really the history of why the South didn't lose the war, it was only put on pause. Now southern states are trying to implement antebellum Plantation Governance as a continuance.
Was just thinking we should tell the rich racists that they can either accept DEI or we can investigate which ones but their wealth on the backs of slaves and move to reparations…
Then we can include Native Americans, women in general…
They're still pissed off about it as if it were yesterday.
They've been gearing up for round 2 ever since.
We're watching them act on it.
All that hate and resentment went somewhere.. It went into raising the next generation of the confederacy, stacking courts, and destroying the government.
You're gonna get DJT's Birthday as a national holiday instead. Or you can have an indefinite general strike and bring the oligarchs to their knees. Idc either way.
After the war, the racist South never had the comeuppance it truly deserved. The Confederates just created a new social order of Jim Crow, segregation, racial oppression and lynchings that lasted a century.
The GOP is fighting with them in spirit. MAGA is just the modern day KKK.
Thank you for making me aware of this holiday! I saw you post about it a week ago & put it in my phone. Thanks to you I was able to let all of my coworkers know! (I work nights)
No shit?! I'm so glad to know this- I hadn't ever thought about a singular date or surrender (I thought it was groups over time or smtg) incredible! Thanks for sharing this
A TV show from 1962-63 called 'That Was The Week That Was' made a one-liner about the then 100th anniversary of the continued war, mocking the south's inability to get over it. I'm now in North Carolina, and think nothing's changed. Crackers gonna crack. I only have to go next door to see a MAGA.
I'm willing to let the confederate flag be flown, as long as it is upside down. And by upside down, I mean put a flagpole in a hole 30ft deep and have the flag at the bottom of it.
Would have been cool if they had actually surrendered instead of launching an insurgency that ultimately led to the Compromise of 1877 and Jim Crow followed by a multi-decade campaign against civil rights.
Today I am going on another long drive in the country with my mom and we've been playing Ken Burns' "Civil War" on the car audio. Today is Episode 4, which covers 1864.
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MAGA = KKK and we are at war, again.
So many things to celebrate about them being defeated repeatedly.
We just need to avoid wasting time with another McClellan and go with Grant and the emancipated Black soldiers immediately this time.
It was all about the tattered dish rag surrender flag being the real symbol of the confederacy. It was awesome.
https://fabricworkshopandmuseum.org/exhibition/sonya-clark-monumental-cloth-the-flag-we-should-know/
https://whyy.org/articles/the-plain-white-confederate-flag-of-truce-and-surrender-inspires-exhibit-in-philly/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJjXKRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHmgSOhBHwYfdVMQiE2HCSIvRDSzPwNgmBYg07HNUF5nmI2Ip3gkveE98qptF_aem_YcPHoAC2MiQ344SenAVhbQ
At least the company I now work for (which is French!) recognizes Juneteenth
This is truly wondrous!
Donald Trump made the unbelievable claim during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Donald Trump gestures while speaking and sitting in the Oval Office👹
Also this date:
In 1939, Marian Anderson performed a concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., after the Black singer was denied the use of Constitution Hall by Daughters of the American Revolution.
#surrenderday
also, A+ alt-text
This to me sounds like what they asked the Nazi youth to do. Rat out your parents and teachers and find books to burn..! There is no difference. History repeats.
👉"Hallelujah! Free at last!" - MLK
👉 (and fuck the Confederacy)
https://www.sonyaclark.com
Then we can include Native Americans, women in general…
https://youtu.be/6T0jMZy_kuM?feature=shared
They've been gearing up for round 2 ever since.
We're watching them act on it.
All that hate and resentment went somewhere.. It went into raising the next generation of the confederacy, stacking courts, and destroying the government.
Confederate dipshits: Get over slavery already.
Also, same dipshits: No, we must remember and honor the confederacy, and never get over it, from that exact same time period.
The GOP is fighting with them in spirit. MAGA is just the modern day KKK.
Rattlesnakes, and alligators
as American Traitors
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I hope to get an accurate replica some day and fly it on a pole.
https://suffernocopperhead.bigcartel.com/
EXECUTING EVERY SINGLE TRAITOR THAT TOOK UP ARMS AGAINST AMERICA !
THUS : MAGA
We can win again against corporate slave drivers.
The one who said "NEVER SURRENDER"!!!
https://bsky.app/profile/navalinstitute.bsky.social/post/3lmfzmubedk22
…which will be back by Friday.
And gone in 10 days.
And back again on…
Same back to you.
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