Tag: History
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Trying to Remember
I wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. Yesterday morning I walked three quarters of a mile from my in-law’s home in Brownsville, TN to this roadside marker beside a small family cemetery. James Bond, a quick internet search will reveal, was once one of Tennessee’s largest slaveholders. By the…
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Just how much racism is in our DNA?
I wrote this for my weekly newsletter which you can subscribe to here. This week I learned that there’s something called the World Socialist Website and that they published an interesting interview with James McPherson who’s book about the Civil War is exceptionally good. Anyway, the interview is ostensibly about The New York Times’ recently…
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Juneteenth
Within this white supremacist culture, Black people’s decision to publicly commemorate Juneteenth with parades, speeches, and special church services was a conscious act of resistance, a choice to develop a “powerfully subversive collective memory.”
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He Remembers Emmett Till
“What one begs the American people to do, for all our sakes, is simply to accept our history.”
David W. Swanson 