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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMUST-READ: Long Ta-Nehisi Coates thread refuting John Kelly's comments on the Civil War
This is a devastating critique of what Kelly tried to argue yesterday.
The thread starts here
Link to tweet
Just scroll down that page for the complete thread.
It's a stunning response to Kelly, and uses a lot of quoted material (in images easy to read on Twitter) making it very clear that the Civil War was only about slavery, that Robert E. Lee was not admirable (he tortured his own slaves and had his army, when it invaded Pennsylvania, kill black soldiers and capture free blacks to take back as slaves), and that the "compromising" with the slave owners of the South had already gone on far too long by the time of the Civil War.
I found this thread right away this morning thanks to a tweet frosm Soleded O'Brien:
Link to tweet
hatrack
(59,587 posts)Read it!
Fatemah2774
(245 posts)The message says I'm not allowed to view this....
HAB911
(8,904 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)he's totally kissing off America & rewriting America's history, just like freaking Stalin & Hitler rewrote German & Russian history.
underpants
(182,829 posts)Bookmarking
thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)3/5th Ha!
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,015 posts)Just through the first chapter - it is clear Coates is someone well worth reading and listening to - great read so far.
mountain grammy
(26,624 posts)and read this by Coates this morning.. excellent and, yes, a must read.
Kelly is full out nuts. Rabid white supremacist. Living the unimaginable nightmare of all out racists and religious fanatics running our government.
Saviolo
(3,282 posts)From an unbelievably astute great thinker about modern race relations.
demmiblue
(36,865 posts)58Sunliner
(4,386 posts)Wow. I really hate people who try to bullshit about the civil war or the reality of slavery. Just read any book on the laws that were written to support slavery in the south/slave states. What a POS.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)because they never accept compromise even if they pretend they do, their resentment seethes and they continue fighting the same immoral battle for a century afterwards.