Bob Dole’s comments this weekend kicked off a panic among Republicans on cable news.

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As I noted in my original post on this, we shouldn’t ignore that many of us have benefited from the willful amnesia about what the Civil War was and was about. Many of us. Not all of us. From TPM Reader DR …

As a lifelong Black person raised in Georgia, I can tell you the views of TPM Reader JL are all classic Southern appeasement.

We change the names of streets when the men (mostly men) they are named for can no longer be justified or reconciled with our values.

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Video emerges of controversial Obama/Christie football throwing stuffed bear ‘winning’ incident. Watch.