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Highly recommend this podcast on Selma, AL, the civil rights movement, and the murder of white minister James Reeb. It testifies to how forcefully and violently some people have fought (and will fight) to protect white supremacy in America. npr.org/podcasts/51034…
One moment in Episode 2 stood out to me. When a group of white men in Selma were arrested for the murder of Reeb, the county's leading white men bailed the murderers out of jail and began raising funds for their defense. Note how they justified it...
“It is the duty of every white citizen to see that those white citizens have legal help. Selma is fighting almost alone, but Selma is not fighting for itself alone, it is fighting for everything that stands for decency and Western Civilization.”
These are the words that the civic and business leaders of Dallas County Alabama used to explain why they were doing everything possible to help the white men accused of murdering a white minister who came to Alabama to support the civil rights movement.
And it should be noted that the accused white men were hardly upstanding citizens...all had criminal records, one having been arrested over a dozen times for assault. The white elite of the county were not protecting their friends, they were protecting whiteness.
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1. This is arguably one of the most important, foundational texts in the history of modern American conservatism. It was a huge hit in 1960 and contributed greatly to Goldwater's victory in the 1964 GOP primary. But here's an interesting factoid to consider...
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Reading Peter Onuf's new book on Jefferson and this line stood out to me: "[Jefferson] demonstrated his love of country by trying to reform it, to make it something it was not. He did not love Virginia with the blind devotion of a modern-day superpatriot." lsupress.org/books/detail/j…
One of my favorite ironies (paradoxes?) of modern day originalism, is that most of "the founders" assumed that future generations would & should do things differently than they did.

Jefferson (1787): "Every constitution…and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years."
So if one is interested in honoring the "original intent" of the founders, then one should be fine with changing our political system to better fit with the needs of our very different times.
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WHOOOOOOO.

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1/ This is the story about a cold case at the center of the civil rights movement, how a murder rippled through a community and took on a life of its own. npr.org/whitelies
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lololololol this is an extension of the same theory that had him flanking the Democrats to the left which never ever materialized because he’s obsessed with white supremacy and not functional government
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This is an excellent point, and one worth dwelling on a bit.

We often talk about the civil rights movement as being a lifetime ago, but we have to remember it was within the lifetimes of people who are still with us today.

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