Instead of The Empire Strikes Back, we've been living in... The Lost Cause Strikes Back. And here you've been wasting your time complaining about Star Wars! Please see the following Vox explainer for more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOkF... - ThreadSky

ebonyteach.bsky.social • 15 days ago

Instead of The Empire Strikes Back, we've been living in...
The Lost Cause Strikes Back.

And here you've been wasting your time complaining about Star Wars!

Please see the following Vox explainer for more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOkFXPblLpU&ab_channel=Vox

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silaslapham.bsky.social•15 days ago

Yep! I show this video once a semester to drive this point home. We all know why they “fear.”

https://interminablerambling.medium.com/why-do-you-fear-education-why-we-must-imagine-a-new-world-9de5a5990df0?sk=e2f0064ef791222b8ab420c3a97740f3

zyxpangolin.bsky.social•15 days ago

The Whitewashing of America 🇺🇸 Yeah

nick30121.bsky.social•15 days ago

A lot of the modern "confederacy legend" was actually perpetuated by northern elites fearful of northern migration. It just goes to show its always about exploitation; any group that can be easily exploited will be... Unless they are defended and believed.

rainbreeze.bsky.social•15 days ago

Thank you!! I'm trying to get as much good info out to my friends and loved ones -- whichever ones don't disown me.

Resources such as these are *hugely* helpful for targeting the worst of what is unacceptable about where the new GOP is taking us.

chritap.bsky.social•15 days ago

It’s time to plan, time to get active.

https://coalunderpressure.com/product/move-as-a-fist-political-action-planner/

splitrailfence.bsky.social•15 days ago

Before there was internet for widespread public use, I found the location of Pulaski, TN & visited with my spouse because I had to know not only what kind of place had bred such hate, but how on Earth later generations of the community try to explain what had been born in their town. When I went,

splitrailfence.bsky.social•15 days ago

I walked around the county seat heart of Pulaski--an Andy Griffith-looking main street square. I encountered many historical markers, but none to describe what I'd come to find out. I went to the local Chamber office and struck up a convo with a nice staff person who gave me a cup of lemonade &

splitrailfence.bsky.social•15 days ago

told me about the Jack Daniels distillery tours, the local parks, and some restaurants to try. She showed me the tourist pamphlets rack. Finally, I did what I'd envisioned for decades: I asked where the Klan had been formed. Her entire expression changed, her tone became ... firm. She gave

splitrailfence.bsky.social•15 days ago

directions to the law office where the lawyers--who practiced around the corner from and under the grand watch of the county courthouse--organized and ordained the Klan just after the close of the US Civil War. She told me the town was not proud of that history, and they wanted families and

splitrailfence.bsky.social•15 days ago

businesses to want to come to Pulaski. She said I'd notice a plaque. The plaque was put on the building by the Daughters of the Confederacy (I think) around the early 1900s when that kind of thing got en vogue again. Big nostalgia on the sign commemorating what was portrayed as a noble group and

splitrailfence.bsky.social•15 days ago

cause. She said when times changed by the 1970s (!), the plaque, its funders, and its message, were not appropriate, did not fit the town mission, so they took the plaque off the building, turned it around, and re-bolted it to the wall. We see a metal plaque square and the bolts. Cleaned up.

spacepacegrace.bsky.social•14 days ago

This is gross and sad! I had a whitewashed education and have grown and learned so much from books telling the real story. 💜

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