On April 9, 1865, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. This historic moment marked the closing of the Civil War to end slavery. 133 Days to Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountDowntoSRD
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1930’s Germany learned how to divide and subjugate people from OUR history and people in the U.S. are currently using the same history as an instruction manual. The South and their attitudes were not crushed enough to never come back. They were let off the hook during Reconstruction.
Thanks for the reminder. Here in South Carolina, we still have Confederate Memorial Day off in May because it's still a state holiday. SC is so backwards!!
And 155 yrs later we have a return to those days. The simple fact is that we have a bunch of spinelss morons who first would block his running for president with 34 FELONY CONVICTIONS and now is running this country into the ground.
Thank you for standing up for a country that has continued to try to do you dirty! I feel we are ascending above the color of our skin and I see a future where you don’t have to fight so damn hard to exist!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!7!7!&!$!$!$!$!$!7!$!!$!$!$!$!$!7$!$7$!$7$!7!!$7$!$7$!$7$!7$
War crimes and trials would have secured our nation. We did it with the Nazis. One Gen. Wirz was hung in Lafayette Square. He murdered my ancestors at Andersonville. There should have been more.
The SAVE Act is being voted on today. Call your reps IMMEDIATELY and tell them to vote NO on voter suppression! If it passes, 70 million women will not get to vote because they took their husband's last name and it doesn't match their birth certificate! 5calls.org! GIVE THEM HELL!
We need to have much more organized positive protests at public events, like everyone wearing a "Fight Climate Change" t-shirt at a section of the ballpark, stadium or arena with publicly promoted by a supportive organization. More to come.
and the south has been pissed off and implementing apartheid like systems ever since.. now.. that mindset has full control of Washington DC .. Mike Johnson Louisiana.. John Thune.. nowheresville ..
we need statehood for Puerto Rico and DC now.
Unfortunately, slavery is still technically legal, since the 13th Amendment has a loophole big enough to sail the USS Abraham Lincoln through sideways. We need to close that loophole by abolishing prison labor.
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well to be fair, word traveled slow, there were pockets of resistance, and some units didn't believe the surrender was real- same with the Japanese in WW2
To be honest, the confeds have never truly stopped fighting. Apparently many hold office in the USA government now.
My distant cousin only surrendered his own forces, not the forces of other less notable generals.
Stop the 'Save Act' from happening! Like many women in the United States, I took my husband's last name when we married. We did not surrender our rights. This bill will make it more difficult for women to vote—a right guaranteed to us in the Bill of Rights via the 19th Amendment. BE LOUD - BE PROUD!
It felt so crazy to me my whole life that in our not so distant history, there were so many people complacent with “owning” people! When they got called out on it by a large number of their peers they started a war.
If only they didn’t surrender in fear & all the racists died in battle instead
Until Trump resumed the federal US practice of slave trade by selling Venezuelans (and, soon, many others) to El Salvador torture prisons where they'll be used as labour-for-profit.
Key difference is they're now being exported, not imported.
Trump would never surrender, just like he would never admit a mistake.
He'd rather commit suicide in an underground bunker than admit defeat just like Hitler, the very one he is trying to emulate.
Hmm...now THAT'S a thought! 🤔
#UnderGroundBunkerDefeat
Also remember that a decade earlier the US invaded Mexico and occupied much of its territory because it made slavery illegal and American immigrants complained.
And the Union made the mistake of not stamping out the Confederates completely, making the traitor flag illegal to fly, refusing to erect monuments to traitor generals…. And now here we are.
Yes, they were. And we saw the rise of the clan to combat growing Civil Rights battles. Why? Because the issue was never completely rooted out.
And it continued to grow and grow, and the more freedom and power any one who is not white males acquired, the more they worked to establish themselves.
Allowing conservatives to establish and prosper, and be left alone unchallenged ANYWHERE is the same as allowing a cancer to grow. What is killing the US, is waiting to grow in Canada, Australia, the UK… it always starts small. Laughably small. But it grows. AND IT KILLS
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And 85 years after that, Trump made his friends even richer by insider trading.
What a crazy date.
Shoulda let Sherman finish the job while we had the chance.
we need statehood for Puerto Rico and DC now.
What a bunch of pussy ass bitches
https://substack.com/home/post/p-158471505
The confeds kept fighting for months afterwards.
To be honest, the confeds have never truly stopped fighting. Apparently many hold office in the USA government now.
My distant cousin only surrendered his own forces, not the forces of other less notable generals.
If only they didn’t surrender in fear & all the racists died in battle instead
Key difference is they're now being exported, not imported.
He'd rather commit suicide in an underground bunker than admit defeat just like Hitler, the very one he is trying to emulate.
Hmm...now THAT'S a thought! 🤔
#UnderGroundBunkerDefeat
Keep on keepin on my brotha. If you are ever in Maui I would love to have you come out just to relax away from the madness. Just sayin
We beat them in the 1940s
We'll beat them in the 2020s
Let’s not make that stake with MAGA.
Yet the US allowed traitorous symbols, statues, namesakes and dialouge, under the false pretense of free speech.
And from this, grew the Christian Right NEVER. AGAIN.
Lee explicitly stated that no monuments should be erected in his honor and yet they did anyway.
And it continued to grow and grow, and the more freedom and power any one who is not white males acquired, the more they worked to establish themselves.