Tag: South
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The Electoral College – A Power Move by the Slave-Owning Elite Class
As we all should know by now, Madison and the founding fathers were not fans of democracy. Please read James Madison’s Ideas on Protecting the Opulent Minority Against the Tyranny of the Majority Let us now briefly discuss the Electoral College and its relationship to slavery. On Thursday July 19, 1787, at the Philadelphia Constitutional convention, the…
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A Timeline of Violence During the Civil Rights Movement
Let’s talk violence. America, and to be fair the world in general, has a very violent history. Civil rights, woman’s rights, gay rights, labor rights, political rights, etc. have all face extreme and ugly forms of violence. I wanted to make a timeline of some of the most appalling and violent acts that Americans inflicted…
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Wage Slavery: A Quick History
Noam Chomsky Interview: History is Not Over, April 18, 1997: Go back to the 1870s, the New York Times was denouncing wage labor. The standard of the Republican Party around 1870 was “We’re the party who opposes slavery and who opposes wage slavery.” The Republican Party, you know, we’re not talking about wild radicals. It…
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The Case for Reparations
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Atlantic: Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole. Clyde Ross was born in 1923, the seventh of…
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The U.S. Civil War and the 2012 Presidential Election: A Relation?
Hi, I recently noticed a very interesting relationship between the 2012 U.S. presidential election results and the U.S. Civil War North/South divide. Things that make you go hmmm! U.S. Map showing the results of the 2012 U.S. presidential election. Red states are Republican wins and Blue states are Democrat wins. U.S. Map showing free (blue)…