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An old professor's epigram, tested against the monuments, the forts, the flag, a Supreme Court ruling from this spring, and the counterfeit history of emancipation now spreading online. An old history professor of mine once offered a sentence that has outlasted most of what I learned in his classroom. The South lost the battle, he said, and won the war. He meant that the Confederacy was more alive in the present than it had been on the April morning when Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox. The claim sounded like provocation at the time. It reads now like a weather report. Army forts carry the names of men who took up arms against the United States. The Supreme Court has just rewritten the rules that protected Black voters in the states most determined to suppress them. A battle flag the rebel armies never managed to carry into Washington was paraded through the Capitol in 2021. My professor's epigram deserves a hearing, and it deserves a harder examination than its admirers usually give it, because one half of it is true in a way that should alarm anyone who wants a working democracy, and the other half is false in a way that can disarm the people who would defend one. […]

https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/02/the-confederate-question-never-closed/

#aigeneratedmisinformation #americanfascism #author #battle #black #books

David Boles @[email protected] · 2026-07-02 · 12:20 UTC

The Confederate Question Never Closed

An old professor's epigram, tested against the monuments, the forts, the flag, a Supreme Court ruling from this spring, and the counterfeit history of emancipation now spreading online. An old history professor of mine once offered a sentence that has outlasted most of what I learned in his classroom. The South lost the battle, he said, and won the war. He meant that the Confederacy was more alive in the present than it had been on the April morning when Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox. The claim sounded like provocation at the time. It reads now like a weather report. Army forts carry the names of men who took up arms against the United States. The Supreme Court has just rewritten the rules that protected Black voters in the states most determined to suppress them. A battle flag the rebel armies never managed to carry into Washington was paraded through the Capitol in 2021. My professor's epigram deserves a hearing, and it deserves a harder examination than its admirers usually give it, because one half of it is true in a way that should alarm anyone who wants a working democracy, and the other half is false in a way that can disarm the people who would defend one. […]

https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/02/the-confederate-question-never-closed/

#writing #whitesupremacyhistory #war #webdubois #uniongenerals #tubman

Beth P @[email protected] · 2026-06-19 · 02:27 UTC

Still out there thinking people are overreacting, too paranoid, they wouldn't go that far? #americanfascism #resist https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/05/doge-planned-falsely-mark-27-million-people-dead-whistleblower-says/

#americanfascism #resist

Beth P @[email protected] · 2026-06-19 · 02:26 UTC

#Eugenics watch. They're building the camps already. Also, special education has been moved from DoE to #RFKJ 's HHS. This is not a coincidence. #americanfascism #resist https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/trump-doj-memo-olmstead-psychiatric-disabilities-institutions-mental-health/

#eugenics #rfkj #americanfascism #resist

Beth P @[email protected] · 2026-06-17 · 11:46 UTC

Parents of a young child allegedly steal diapers... somebody apparently has to die.

Meanwhile...POTUS and family flagrantly grift BILLIONS from taxpayers...crickets.

Just sayin'. #americanfascism #uspolitics

#americanfascism #uspolitics

Beth P @[email protected] · 2026-06-15 · 01:29 UTC

Friendly reminder that our collective moral failure continues... #ICEOUT #FuckICE #americanfascism https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/13/mandatory-detention-ice-cases-rulings-database-00913988

#iceout #fuckice #americanfascism

Beth P @[email protected] · 2026-06-01 · 14:51 UTC

This is absolutely disgusting and completely unnecessary. This kid (allegedly) did a terrible thing (leaving the scene of a fatal accident), and fine, deport him for that. But the language that's being tossed around here makes it sound like he'd come here for the express purpose of running down pedestrians under the guise of delivering DoorDash. #iceout #americanfascism https://enewspaper.lowellsun.com/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=0408efc8-4709-434d-9e4c-dd41ba27fd20&share=true (cont'd)

#iceout #americanfascism