Eugene Robinson , Washington Post, June 11, 2020:
It should have happened 155 years ago, when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, but maybe — just maybe — the Civil War is finally coming to an end. And perhaps Donald Trump, not Jefferson Davis, will go down in history as the last president of the Confederacy. ...Now we know what time period Donald Trump has in mind when he says: "Make America Great Again". Any year before 1865.
Like the Civil War itself, [the Confederate battle flag] is simply and entirely about white supremacy. ... That banner represents the knee that has been kept on the necks of African Americans ... for 401 years. ...
Lee's surrender ended nothing, because the nation did not even begin to grapple with white supremacy. Reconstruction was strangled in its infancy; true racial reconciliation was never even attempted. The statue of Davis in Richmond, brought down by protesters Wednesday night, was not erected until 1907. Like almost all of the Lost Cause monuments, it was built during the revanchist era, when Southern whites were celebrating their reestablished dominance over African Americans via repressive Jim Crow laws and the terrorism of the Ku Klux Klan. ...
The killing of Floyd has provoked a national moment of reckoning with police violence and white supremacy. But the position of the Trump administration is that systemic racism does not even exist ...
Trump has used this moment to side with Lost Cause white supremacy. ...
[Trump] may be historically ignorant enough not to know that the [Confederate] generals in question were traitors ... that ultimate victory went to the Union, not the Confederacy; and that the whole point of the rebellion was to deny freedom to African Americans. Or he may know these facts but believe his political base doesn't.
VoteVets, a veterans organization, has released a video stating that naming American military bases after Confederate generals is like naming a base after Osama bin Laden.
We wouldn't name American military bases after enemies who attacked our country. But 10 military bases still bear the names of Confederate army traitors — enemies who took up arms against the United States in defense of slavery. ... [W]hy does Donald Trump so desperately want to keep the names of other racist enemies on our Army bases?
***Our new ad cuts to the chase, and pulls no punches: We’d never name bases after America’s enemies, like Osama bin Laden. Why does Donald Trump so desperately want to keep the names of other racist enemies on our Army bases? pic.twitter.com/Pfixi2Tu6w— VoteVets (@votevets) June 12, 2020
"We shouldn't impose our will on others" -- Ben Carson argues against renaming US military bases named after Confederate generals pic.twitter.com/pgARwYfFEJ— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 14, 2020
State: "We should not impose our will on others".Here's Ben Carson defending Atlanta officer who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks on basis of "we don't know what was in mind of the officer ... this is not a clear-cut circumstance." pic.twitter.com/wdyMKRb8AE— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 14, 2020
In your next breath, defend someone who imposed his will on someone else ... by killing them.
Historical Note: As of June 14, 2020, the United States has imposed its will on others for 243 years, 11 months, 11 days.
More From The White Supremacist Fake News Death Cult
STEPHANOPOULOS: How can you safely have a Trump rally next weekend with 19,000 or 20,000 in the same place?— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 14, 2020
.@SenatorLankford: I don't know how they're going to handle that, George
S: So you'll be going?
LANKFORD: I will be attending. I absolutely will be. pic.twitter.com/26vdjboY3B
It's June 2020 and Sen. Ron Johnson is still talking about Hillary Clinton's emails pic.twitter.com/doKgBrjSRz— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 14, 2020
NEW: Fox News ran digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle’s protests, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone #CHAZ https://t.co/msXxUiNit0 via @seattletimes— Jim Brunner (@Jim_Brunner) June 13, 2020
Fox also ran this scary image of a burning city above a package of stories about Seattle headlined CRAZY TOWN. The photo was from May 30 in St. Paul, Minnesota. pic.twitter.com/kr319xfmOO— Jim Brunner (@Jim_Brunner) June 13, 2020
In other news:— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 14, 2020
Facebook has already agreed to put a Republican Party political operative in charge of its editorial policies in order to secure more favorable regulatory treatment and Trump keeps making it clear that his second term agenda is to do the same at CNN/NBC/WaPost.
CNN already has https://t.co/zIQ2IuIzyu— Elliot Reed ☮🦠(@_Elliot_Reed_) June 14, 2020
I guess just "on air analyst "https://t.co/DXDyIMB9PW— Elliot Reed ☮🦠(@_Elliot_Reed_) June 14, 2020
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