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@kron619 1) In 1861, furious that slave-holding Confederate States would secede from the Union, take up arms against the United States & provoke the American Civil War, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. added a 5th stanza to "The Star Spangled Banner" that was published in songbooks of the era.
@kron619 2) When our land is illumined with Liberty's smile,
If a foe from within strike a blow at her glory,
Down, down with the traitor that dares to defile
The flag of her stars and the page of her story!
@kron619 3) By millions unchained, who our birthright have gained,
We will keep her bright blazon forever unstained!
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
While the land of the free is the home of the brave.
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1) "The Flag Never Touched the Ground"

As the sun sank slowly in the West
A thunderstorm and gale
Wept tears to see the brave black troops
Shot down by leaden hail.
A negro saw the old flag fall
And threw his gun away
To grasp the falling colors staff
And lead them to the fray.
2) Twas the Blue against the Gray, Boys,
And he said to all around
"I've only done my duty boys,
The old Flag never touch'd the ground."

Around the dead and dying lay;
He reach'd the parapet,
The old flag never touched the ground,
As kneeling he held it yet.
3) The old flag did not bite the dust,
Where the bold black hero lay;
Two armies battled for the fort,
The Blue against the Gray
Amid the awful slaughter there,
he said to all around,
"I've only done my duty, boys,
It did not touch the ground."
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@STUinSD 1) "Google manipulation of search results could have cost Trump 2.6 million votes in 2016. In 2020, as many as 15 million votes could be manipulated." -- Robert Epstein, senior research psychologist, American Institute for Behavioral Research & Technology
@STUinSD 2) Epstein said he knows the number of votes that shifted because he conducted dozens of controlled experiments in the U.S. and other countries that measure precisely how opinions and votes shift when search results favor one candidate, cause or company.
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@garyggray @supitsshekinah encounterbooks.com/features/racis…

1) "Immediately after the Civil War, Southern states enacted Black Codes Mississippi’s provision was typical: No freedman “shall keep or carry fire-arms of any kind, or any ammunition” without police permission.
@garyggray @supitsshekinah 2) " In areas where the Ku Klux Klan took control, “almost universally the first thing done was to disarm the negroes and leave them defenseless,” recounted the civil rights attorney Albion Tourgée, who represented Plessy in Plessy v. Ferguson.
@garyggray @supitsshekinah 3) "Repeatedly, congressional proponents of the 14th Amendment announced that a key purpose of the Amendment was to guarantee that freedmen could exercise their 2nd Amendment right to own guns for self-defense, especially against gun control organizations such as the KKK.
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