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.@GovernorVA has just announced they're taking down the statue of Robert E Lee. Take them all down and Washington Lee University (@wlunews) should axe the "Lee" from its name too motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
Washington Lee high school near where I grew up is now Washington Liberty High School. Lee Highway (ditto) is now Richmond Highway.

Rename it all.
Ok evidently Route 29 is still called "Lee Highway" at least in Arlington. Just name it Arlington Highway. Or...anything else.

And of course it was named in the 1920s. Many of the Confederate monuments went up then too. The message was clear: wrcbtv.com/story/39824083…
Harriet Tubman Highway has a nice ring to it.
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The most shocking thing I learned bout @LindseyGrahamSC today is that he mus be worried enough about the Black vote and broader public sentiment to have put this out.

And that's the reason he could lose.
Here's @KaraVogt's great profile of @harrisonjaime, Graham's opponent and the stakes in this race...which have gone up motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
That art turned out to be...timely
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1/ When reporters knocked on the door of Bob Kroll—the racist Mpls police union head—he called the cops on them.

He's married to a @WCCO anchor. Who's reported on the police, without disclosing their relationship. By @sjmichaels: motherjones.com/anti-racism-po…
2/ Here's the piece @sjmichaels wrote about Bob Kroll and the police union history, six long days ago: motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
3/ Here's my earlier thread on the role of police unions in all the atrocities we're seeing spill through our feeds and in our streets:
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Videos of cops shoving an old white man and (mostly) white protestors in Riverside are awful, should be prosecuted. But why no attention to this black woman groped by an Indianapolis cop who then stood taking a beating from a swarm when she flinched
from a thread of some 300 incidents of cops beating protestors for little/no reason btw
Part of the reason is our collective racism to care more about attacks on white protestors than black.

But also: news deserts! I'm sure reporters at the @indystar and other Indiana outlets are doing their best but huge cuts, and less pick-up from national media.
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