Kashana @kashana.bsky.social

People love inventing imaginary black people who had the freedom to choose to fight for slavery and then, you know, exercised that choice.

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Yastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social [ View ] May 07, 2024 at 02:35 UTC

It's fun to try imagining how they would have explained themselves. "I just like Jefferson Davis on taxes. Plus what's all this Whiggish industrial planning? Real men don't mill cotton, they pick it!"

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thee michael whiteshoes @michaelwhiteshoes.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 22:05 UTC

i've seen some bullshit in my almost 60 yrs on this dying orb but that person needs to check with a doctor to make sure they still have a brain

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C.V. Danes @cvdanes.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 22:45 UTC

This is right up there with being thankful for being 'rescued' from a life of savagery.

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Michael Bischoff @mpbmke.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 22:42 UTC

"There were some black slave owners [citation needed]"

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 22:15 UTC

Why are we involved in this? Why do people keep bring us up?

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tofu & tesla! (& krisko) 🍉 ♿ @krisko.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 22:16 UTC

oh man, if they think this is bad wait until they learn what white people were doing at this time

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@abuamirah1020.bsky.social [ View ] May 07, 2024 at 00:56 UTC

I'm guessing that if you were to talk to that rabbi about slavery, you would find out that he believes in that "happy" slave myth. There were Black people who "fought" for the confederacy. What he didn't mention is that they were forced slaves who only had support and logistik roles.

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Ethan Galant @ethangalant.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 22:12 UTC

Kevin Levin (civilwarmemory.bsky.social) has a thorough & highly regarded book on this topic

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Lurk du Soleil @lurkdusoleil.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 22:41 UTC

An employee of UChicago who made this "token minority" argument referencing the Holocaust instead of slavery would justifiably lose their position.

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Harry Finch @harryfinch.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 23:36 UTC

Oh yes, the Black Army of Northern Virginia. I believe they reached Gettysburg on July 5 and decided to keep going north.

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Dan Davis @bindlestaff.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 22:14 UTC

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything spiral the way this is spiraling. It’s like a swirling vortex of horseshoes.

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Nic 🍉 @nml-dc.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 22:11 UTC

"People love inventing imaginary Black people" is a succinct summation of US history.

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Kashana @kashana.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 22:03 UTC

acwm.org/blog/myths-m...

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Alex @alexkendziorski.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 22:56 UTC

Matches quite well with the version of MLK who would be Reagan's best friend and champion White Supremacy. Just wait till these crackers start quoting Marcus Garvey and Franz Fanon.

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Shrimp LOL Mein @sammerstein.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 23:21 UTC

I know they were real bc my great granddaddy had Black friends who did!! Same imaginary Black friends all these people say they have.

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JJ is tired @jjofbc.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 22:10 UTC

Imagine a free Black person showing up with a weapon to join the Confederate lines and not being shot on sight LOL. these people are tripping

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