DoomsdaysCW<p>What Is A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PollTax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PollTax</span></a>? Definition and Examples</p><p>By Robert Longley, July 27, 2022</p><p>Excerpt: "In the United States, the origin of the poll tax—and the controversy surrounding it—is associated with the agrarian unrest of the 1880s and 1890s, which culminated in the rise of the Populist Party in the Western and the Southern states. The Populists, representing low-income farmers, gave Democrats in these areas the only serious competition that they had experienced since the end of Reconstruction. The competition led both parties to see the need to attract Black citizens back into politics and to compete for their vote. As the Democrats defeated the Populists, they amended their state constitutions or drafted new ones to include various discriminatory disfranchising devices. When the payment of the poll tax was made a prerequisite to voting, impoverished <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackPeople</span></a> and often <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoorWhitePeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoorWhitePeople</span></a>, unable to afford the tax, were denied the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToVote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightToVote</span></a>. </p><p>"During the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era in the United States, the former states of the Confederacy repurposed the poll tax explicitly to prevent formerly enslaved <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a> from voting. Although the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/14thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>14thAmendment</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/15thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>15thAmendment</span></a> [s] gave Black men full <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/citizenship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>citizenship</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VotingRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRights</span></a>, the power to determine what constituted a qualified voter was left to the states. Beginning with Mississippi in 1890, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthernStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthernStates</span></a> quickly exploited this legal loophole. At its 1890 constitutional convention, Mississippi imposed a $2.00 poll tax and early registration as a requirement for voting. This had catastrophic results for the Black electorate. Whereas approximately 87,000 Black citizens registered to vote in 1869, representing almost 97% of the eligible voting-age population, fewer than 9,000 of them registered to vote after the state’s new constitution took effect in 1892. </p><p>"Between 1890 and 1902, all eleven former <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Confederate</span></a> states imposed some form of a poll tax to deter Black Americans from voting. The tax, which ranged from $1 to $2, was prohibitively expensive for most Black sharecroppers, who earned their wages in crops, not currency. Beyond the cost, voter registration and tax payment offices were usually located in public spaces designed to intimidate potential voters, like courthouses and police stations.</p><p>"The southern states also enacted <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JimCrowLaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JimCrowLaws</span></a> intended to reinforce <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RacialSegregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialSegregation</span></a> and restrict Black voting rights. Along with the poll tax, most of these states also imposed literacy tests, which required potential voters to read and interpret in writing sections of the state constitution. So-called 'grandfather clauses' allowed a person to vote without paying the poll tax or passing the literacy test if their father or grandfather had voted before the abolition of slavery in 1865; a stipulation that automatically precluded all formerly enslaved persons. Together, the grandfather clause and the literacy tests effectively restored voting rights to poorer White voters who could not pay the poll tax, while further suppressing the Black vote.</p><p>"Poll taxes of varying stipulations lingered in Southern states well into the 20th century. While some states abolished the tax in the years after World War I, others retained it. Ratified in 1964, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/24thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>24thAmendment</span></a> to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USConstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USConstitution</span></a> declared the tax unconstitutional in federal elections. </p><p>"Specifically, the 24th Amendment states:</p><p> 'The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.'</p><p>"President Lyndon B. Johnson called the amendment a 'triumph of liberty over restriction.' 'It is a verification of people's rights, which are rooted so deeply in the mainstream of this nation's history,' he said.</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a> of 1965 created significant changes in the voting status of Black Americans throughout the South. The law prohibited the states from using literacy tests and other methods of excluding Black Americans from voting. Before this, only an estimated twenty-three percent of voting-age Black citizens were registered nationally, but by 1969 the number had jumped to sixty-one percent. </p><p>"In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court went beyond the Twenty-fourth Amendment by ruling in the case of Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections that under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, states could not levy a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in state and local elections. In two months in the spring of 1966, federal courts declared poll tax laws unconstitutional in the last four states that still had them, starting with Texas on February 9. Similar decisions soon followed in Alabama and Virginia. Mississippi's $2.00 poll tax (about $18 today) was the last to fall, declared unconstitutional on April 8, 1966."</p><p><a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/poll-tax-definition-and-examples-5443130" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thoughtco.com/poll-tax-definit</span><span class="invisible">ion-and-examples-5443130</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterDisenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoterDisenfranchisement</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TwentyFourthAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TwentyFourthAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FourteenthAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FourteenthAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FifteenthAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FifteenthAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoterRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LiteracyTests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteracyTests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USElections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USElections</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterSuppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoterSuppression</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a></p>
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Terry Hunter☑️🌈⭐✌🏼✌🏿✌🏻✌🏽<p>🇺🇸💪💯</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Americans</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Patriot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Patriot</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Patriots" class="mention hashtag" 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href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Segregationist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Segregationist</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Segregationists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Segregationists</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Nazism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazism</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazi</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascist</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Fascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascists</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Dictate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dictate</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Dictations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dictations</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Order" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Order</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Orders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orders</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/EO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EO</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/EOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EOS</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrder</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ExecutiveOrders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrders</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/donaldtrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>donaldtrump</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/magat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>magat</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/magats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>magats</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StephenMiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StephenMiller</span></a>’s Affinity for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteNationalism</span></a> Revealed in Leaked Emails</p><p>November 12, 2019</p><p>"In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature, pushed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racist</span></a> immigration stories and obsessed over the loss of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Confederate</span></a> symbols after <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DylannRoof" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DylannRoof</span></a>’s murderous rampage, according to leaked emails reviewed by Hatewatch."</p><p><a href="https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/stephen-millers-affinity-white-nationalism-revealed-leaked-emails/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">splcenter.org/resources/hate-w</span><span class="invisible">atch/stephen-millers-affinity-white-nationalism-revealed-leaked-emails/</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StephenMillerIsANazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StephenMillerIsANazi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteHouse</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResistFascism</span></a></p>
Georgiann Baldino<p>Jan. 18, 1862, The Confederate Territory of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arizona</span></a> is formed out of the southern half of the Union's New Mexico Territory. A <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Confederate</span></a> invasion of the Southwest did compel the United States to take Arizonans seriously. Colonel James H. Wright led an expedition to open the southern mail line and recapture forts in Arizona and New Mexico. Confederates hoped to retake their territory, but for all intents and purposes, it became the United States Territory of Arizona, separate from New Mexico.</p>
getmisch<p>Over seventy percent of the <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> wants to see the <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/white" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>white</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/supremacist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>supremacist</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/terrorists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terrorists</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/pardoned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pardoned</span></a>, for shitting in the <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/Capitol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitol</span></a> and spreading it on the walls, for parading a <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>confederate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/flag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flag</span></a> there for the first time, for trying to <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/kill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kill</span></a> the <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/vice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/president" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>president</span></a> and trying to <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/overthrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>overthrow</span></a> the <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> in a <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/violent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>violent</span></a> coup. Zero <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/evidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evidence</span></a>, lost over sixty cases, no <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/proof" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proof</span></a> yet they lie still.<br>They were terrorists, not rioters (<a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/rioters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rioters</span></a> have legit grievances).<br><a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/never" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>never</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/forget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forget</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nyc/tags/Jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jan6</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-analysis-republicans-jan-6-attack/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbsnews.com/news/poll-analysis</span><span class="invisible">-republicans-jan-6-attack/</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p>TIL on <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wikis.world/@wikipedia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wikipedia</span></a></span> about Benjamin Jackson, a real-life opponent to <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Confederate</span></a> blockade runners, such as the fictional character of Rhett Butler in “Gone With The Wind”. Jackson was a sailor and farmer from Nova Scotia <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> 🇨🇦 who was a decorated veteran of the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/CivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWar</span></a>. <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resist</span></a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Jackson_(sailor)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjam</span><span class="invisible">in_Jackson_(sailor)</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a> students are giving up Saturdays to learn <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a> lessons their schools don’t teach</p><p> By KATE PAYNE<br>Updated 12:15 AM EST, December 21, 2024</p><p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — "Buried among Florida’s manicured golf courses and sprawling suburbs are the artifacts of its slave-holding past: the long-lost cemeteries of enslaved people, the statutes of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Confederate</span></a> soldiers that still stand watch over town squares, the old <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/plantations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plantations</span></a> turned into modern subdivisions that bear the same name. But many students aren’t learning that kind of Black history in Florida classrooms.</p><p>"In an old wooden bungalow in Delray Beach, Charlene Farrington and her staff gather groups of teenagers on Saturday mornings to teach them lessons she worries that public schools won’t provide. They talk about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthFlorida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthFlorida</span></a>’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caribbean</span></a> roots, the state’s dark history of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lynchings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lynchings</span></a>, how <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/segregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>segregation</span></a> still shapes the landscape and how <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/grassroots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grassroots</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activists</span></a> mobilized the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> Movement to upend generations of oppression.</p><p>[...]</p><p>"When Sulaya Williams’ eldest child started school, she couldn’t find the comprehensive instruction she wanted for him in their area. So in 2016, she launched her own organization to teach Black history in community settings.</p><p>"'We wanted to make sure that our children knew our stories, to be able to pass down to their children,' Williams said.</p><p>"Williams now has a contract to teach Saturday school at a public <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>library</span></a> in Fort Lauderdale, and her 12-year-old daughter Addah Gordon invites her classmates to join her.</p><p>"'It feels like I’m really learning my culture. Like I’m learning what my ancestors did,' Addah said. 'And most people don’t know what they did.'"</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/florida-black-history-desantis-african-american-education-8d14b055ddda651d2761dca30bba5600" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/florida-bla</span><span class="invisible">ck-history-desantis-african-american-education-8d14b055ddda651d2761dca30bba5600</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackHistoryMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMatters</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KnowledgeIspower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KnowledgeIspower</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLivesMatter</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeSantisSucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeSantisSucks</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>"If the people in your own government aren't obeying you, you have got to get rid of them & replace them with people who are responsive to what the president's trying to do," <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a> said in an interview w/ Tucker Carlson before the election.</p><p>During the campaign, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> pledged to restore the name of a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Confederate</span></a> general to a major <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> base, reversing a change made after <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GeorgeFloyd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeFloyd</span></a>'s killing.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a></p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>blogdiva</span></a></span> </p><p>their endorsement of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>harris</span></a> could really mean something:</p><p>their fanbase is working class and white, prime <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> grounds</p><p>they have not one but two anti-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>confederate</span></a> flag songs</p><p>And they support <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BLM</span></a></p><p>I dig <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ICP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/insaneclownposse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insaneclownposse</span></a></p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p>"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Atlanta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atlanta</span></a> man drives three hours to pull down <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Confederate</span></a> flag flying over <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SouthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthCarolina</span></a> highway"</p><p>I like this guy. What he did is called patriotism. Who wants to fly the flag of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/treason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>treason</span></a> for an un-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> anti-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> cause?</p><p><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/atlanta-confederate-flag-south-carolina-highway-b2581411.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">independent.co.uk/news/world/a</span><span class="invisible">mericas/crime/atlanta-confederate-flag-south-carolina-highway-b2581411.html</span></a></p>
Shelia Hunt Fine Art<p>"𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐅𝐄𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐁𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄"... NEW American History print HERE 👉 <a href="https://buff.ly/4dUBJol" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/4dUBJol</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://photog.social/tags/SheliaHuntPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SheliaHuntPhotography</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/CivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWar</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/AmericanCivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanCivilWar</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/CivilWarHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWarHistory</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Confederate</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/CSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CSA</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/battle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>battle</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/BuyIntoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BuyIntoArt</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/blackandwhite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackandwhite</span></a></p>
🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸<p>> A 30-foot <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Confederate</span></a> obelisk erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1908 previously stood in Decatur Square for more than 110 years.</p><p>> It featured text inscriptions on all four sides of its base, celebrating the ideals of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Confederacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Confederacy</span></a>. The inscriptions claimed those who erected the monument were bearing witness to the future, unaware it would one day be torn down, replaced by a new symbol of peace and progress</p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/24/us/john-lewis-statue-atlanta-confederate/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnn.com/2024/08/24/us/john-lew</span><span class="invisible">is-statue-atlanta-confederate/index.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/civilrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilrights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/johnLewis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>johnLewis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a></p>
Shelia Hunt Fine Art<p>“𝐂𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐋 𝐖𝐀𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐖𝐀𝐆𝐎𝐍” ... Get this NEW American History print 👉 <a href="https://buff.ly/3T14XtN" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3T14XtN</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://photog.social/tags/SheliaHuntPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SheliaHuntPhotography</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/CivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWar</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/AmericanCivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanCivilWar</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/CivilWarHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWarHistory</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Confederate</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/CSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CSA</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/battle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>battle</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/BuyIntoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BuyIntoArt</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/CivilWarWagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWarWagon</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/wagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wagon</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/coveredwagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coveredwagon</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/blackandwhite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackandwhite</span></a></p>
BLK News Now!<p>A 110-year-old <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>confederate</span></a> monument was officially replaced in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Decatur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decatur</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Georgia</span></a> yesterday during an unveiling ceremony of a statute of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> icon Rep. John Lewis.</p><p>The event, which included Sen. Raphael Warnock, drew a large crowd with many expressing *joy* that the 12-foot bronze figure of Lewis would replace the century-old symbol of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hate</span></a> and division.<br>(Link to post below)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yonz4BaY0Ro" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=Yonz4BaY0R</span><span class="invisible">o</span></a></p>
Shelia Hunt Fine Art<p>“𝐂𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐋 𝐖𝐀𝐑 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐏𝐋𝐘 𝐖𝐀𝐆𝐎𝐍”, Get this NEW American History print 👉 <a href="https://buff.ly/4cBTLuv" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/4cBTLuv</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://photog.social/tags/SheliaHuntPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SheliaHuntPhotography</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/CivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWar</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/AmericanCivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanCivilWar</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/CivilWarHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWarHistory</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Confederate</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/CSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CSA</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/battle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>battle</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/BuyIntoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BuyIntoArt</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/CivilWarWagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWarWagon</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/wagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wagon</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/coveredwagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coveredwagon</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a></p>
nomotime<p>Bronze statue of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnLewis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnLewis</span></a> replaces more than 100-year-old <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Confederate</span></a> monument</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HarrisWalz2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HarrisWalz2024</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/VoteAllBlue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoteAllBlue</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/john-lewis-bronze-statue-replaced-confederate-georgia-b0c51086a4b83750ff38b1af2167abde" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/john-lewis-</span><span class="invisible">bronze-statue-replaced-confederate-georgia-b0c51086a4b83750ff38b1af2167abde</span></a></p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Irony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Irony</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Progress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Progress</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Beauty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beauty</span></a></p><p>"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Statue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Statue</span></a> of late <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/civilrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilrights</span></a> leader <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JohnLewis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnLewis</span></a> replaces more than 100-year-old <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Confederate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/monument" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monument</span></a>...</p><p>Back in 2020, the stone obelisk was lifted from its base with straps amid jeers and chants of "Just drop it!" from onlookers in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Decatur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decatur</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Georgia</span></a>... </p><p>Groups like the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BeaconHill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BeaconHill</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> Alliance for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hate</span></a> Free Decatur had been pushing for the monument to be removed"</p><p>👏 👏 👏 </p><p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-lewis-statue-confederate-monument-replace-georgia/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbsnews.com/news/john-lewis-st</span><span class="invisible">atue-confederate-monument-replace-georgia/</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Bronze statue of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JohnLewis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnLewis</span></a> replaces more than 100-year-old <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Confederate</span></a> monument</p><p> By RON HARRIS<br>Updated 6:38 PM EDT, August 16, 2024</p><p>DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — "A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed Friday, at the very spot where a contentious monument to the confederacy stood for more than 110 years in the town square before it was dismantled in 2020.</p><p>"Work crews gently rested the 12-foot-tall (3.7-meter-tall) statue into place as the internationally acclaimed sculptor, Basil Watson, looked on carefully.</p><p>"'It’s exciting to see it going up and exciting for the city because of what he represents and what it’s replacing,' Watson said, as he assisted with the install process.</p><p>"Lewis was known for his role at the front lines of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> Movement and urged others to get in '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GoodTrouble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoodTrouble</span></a>' for a cause he saw as vital and necessary. In DeKalb County where the Confederate monument stood for more than a century, protesters have invoked 'good trouble' in calling for the swift removal of the obelisk."</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/john-lewis-bronze-statue-replaced-confederate-georgia-b0c51086a4b83750ff38b1af2167abde" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/john-lewis-</span><span class="invisible">bronze-statue-replaced-confederate-georgia-b0c51086a4b83750ff38b1af2167abde</span></a></p>
Servelan<p>👍 Georgia replaces <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>confederate</span></a> monument with bronze statue of late Rep. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/JohnLewis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnLewis</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GoodTrouble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoodTrouble</span></a></p><p><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4832700-georgia-john-lewis-bronze-statue-courthouse/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehill.com/homenews/state-wat</span><span class="invisible">ch/4832700-georgia-john-lewis-bronze-statue-courthouse/</span></a></p>
anubis2814<a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=Confederate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Confederate</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=statues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statues</span></a> belong in <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=museums" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>museums</span></a> which <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=historical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>historical</span></a> context, statues like this deserve to be in public places because they are showing the people and values we honor.<br>♲ <a href="https://mastodon.social/@bruno_j_navarro/112977215243039320" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">mastodon.social/@bruno_j_navar…</a>
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