TPM Reader CH chimes in on memories of the Confederacy …
Although I am a born and bred Southerner, I agree with your general premise. It absolutely boggles my mind that following the War, General Robert E. Lee became president of Washington College in Virginia, later changed to Washington AND LEE University.
But the entire perspective on the War is different down here, even today. I was in college before I realized we had been on the wrong side of the War. It wasn’t until then that I learned that the War had really been about slavery. Growing up, it never crossed my mind that the South had done anything wrong; I certainly didn’t think of the three 100-foot men on the side of Stone Mountain as being anything less than heroes.
Two Congressmen propose adding a right to vote into the US constitution.
As I flagged over the weekend, the Mayor Ford/crack cocaine saga has now graduated up to potential connection to an unsolved murder in Toronto. Over the weekend, the Globe and Mail reported that a member of Ford’s senior staff had reached out to the Toronto police after getting a tip from another member of the staff about the location of the video and the suggestion that a young Toronto man had been murdered over the tape. Now we have a few more details. Read More
TPM Reader JL takes another view on the Civil War and national reconciliation …
I’m a lifelong Democrat and though I was raised in Mississippi go back two generations and all my people are in Ohio or New York. My uncle worked for RFK and I’ve received awards from state and national organizations recognizing my “progressive” activism.
President Obama looks less than entirely stoked with this stuffed bear he won on the New Jersey boardwalk.
Back on the Mayor Ford/Crack story, first, I made a mistake. In my earlier post I said that ex-Chief of Staff Mark Towhey resigned. That’s not correct. He was fired. When I was writing this morning I’d misremembered and thought there was some uncertainty about whether he resigned or was fired. But he was definitely fired. Actually, he was apparently fired twice and escorted out of the Mayor’s office. Now, part of me wants to say it’s hard keeping track of the murder and crack smoking and hash dealing and resignations and firings. But no excuses. I got that part wrong.
Now, here’s why this is significant. Read More
Video emerges of controversial Obama/Christie football throwing stuffed bear ‘winning’ incident. Watch.
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.
Bob Dole’s comments this weekend kicked off a panic among Republicans on cable news.
We’re hiring a Reporter to work out of our Washington, DC office. Job description and listing after the jump … Read More