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My latest @OrbisBooks publisher’s letter features #JamesCone and other voices of #BlackLivesMatter. Read the rest at Orbisbooks.com.
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One of the master’s cherished memories was of the lazy summer he spent drifting on a raft down the Volga with a runaway serf named Lev. It had ended when he turned in Lev and collected the reward. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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I'm all in. While we're at it, I would also like to imagine that 2016-2020 did not happen. It's easy if you try.
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Not to ignore: @jeffsessions says his choice to stake his candidacy on defending Confederate names of US military bases is “not a little thing.” He is correct. Unlike @realDonaldTrump who pretends that the issue is the “storied” history of the bases where brave soldiers trained,
.@DougJones vote to remove from all military facilities and installations the names of every soldier who fought for the Confederacy betrays the character and decency of every soldier who fought for the South in that bloody and monumental war...
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JS is clear that the issue is honoring the Confederacy. Removing names would “betray the character and decency of every soldier who fought for the South in that bloody and monumental war.” The names express “respect and reconciliation” toward those “called to duty by the States.”
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They certainly weren't an expression of reconciliation toward the descendants of those who were enslaved in those states, who continued to be brutalized and terrorized in the name of States Rights long after (as Sessions notes) “the slavery question [sic] had been settled.”
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Nothing in Sessions’ thread suggests that “question” was correctly settled. The bases were named during WWI and II in the thick of segregation, lynching and KKK terror. Thus treasonous standard bearers of white supremacy were grafted into the annals of US military history.
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Well, that was then...but now? It is not a matter as JS says of "erasing history right before our eyes” but of which history we choose to honor, which perspective reflects our living ideals. Those in AL history who marched and bled for freedom or symbols of injured white pride.
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Good for you! Clear that Sessions thinks Alabama is home only to descendants of Confederate soldiers and not descendants of slaves.
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Thank you, Maria-author of two forthcoming @OrbisBooks volumes!
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Stands with the President in making a bold pitch for the Confederate vote.
.@DougJones vote to remove from all military facilities and installations the names of every soldier who fought for the Confederacy betrays the character and decency of every soldier who fought for the South in that bloody and monumental war...
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We know that they are clever but there is much we do not know. Only a fool would believe that what is after all a barnyard animal, unassisted, could set up a twitter account to make fun of the Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee. Does @DevinCow take me for a fool?
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The master’s “spells” might last only a few seconds or several minutes. Afterwards he often boasted of some new skill, like the ability to count backwards, hold his breath under water, or even what he called “Kung fu.” #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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