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13 Oct, 45 tweets, 36 min read
NCGOP ties to NC Sons of Confederate Veterans & white supremacy agenda go deep.

Deeper than just confed flags & white power shouts at #NCGOP rallies.
Deeper than a couple dozen campaign donations.

Really deep.

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#NCpol #BlackLivesMatter
Been a long fall for NC GOP to being a foremost US white supremacy political party.

In 1870, it was #NCpol Republican Constable Wyatt Outlaw that took reasonable, non-lethal action against KKK.

Today's #NCGOP mocks Outlaw's subsequent lynching.
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We all know 19th century KKK were Dems, Repubs freed slaves.

We know bc GOP always tells us. Forest did it. So did Hawthorne.

Bc they don't have much else to say about race in polite company.

Bc today #NCGOP is a white supremacy party, #ncpol.
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Today, NC confederates strongly associate with #NCGOP. Like this guy driving a tractor into anti-racist protestors in Pittsboro, flying Trump and confed flags during 2019 fight over a #ncpol Jim Crow trophy.

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rawstory.com/2019/10/white-…
This confederate in Hamstead, NC didn’t get Dan Forest’s & Madison Cawthorne's memos that confederates aligned with dems back in Reconstruction times…

#ncpol

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This affinity between #NCGOP symbols and confederate flags isn't new. Confederate & Trump flags have been flying together in #NCpol since there were Trump flags.



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Always strange to see confed flags flying alongside their enemy, USA, flags.

This #NCGOP made his feelings clear, flying the confed flag above the US flag.



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Alleged racist incident at a NC ice cream shop? Here comes the truck of #NCGOP with Trump & confed flags!



8/
Some people are proud of the pairing of confed flags w Trump & #NCGOP symbols. Are you, #ncpol?



9/
At this #NCGOP rally after party in Graham, NC, they made a banner for their joke, 'Crack Lives Matter', that flew along with Trump flags.

I don't get their joke, but I guess they know their racist audience better than me.



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One of the speakers at the official #NCGOP rally earlier that day shouted 'white power' at a #BlackLivesMatter person during the caravan. The NCGOP organizers didn't want any confed flags, but there was one on a Dan Forest truck.



#ncpol

11/
Confederate Dan Forest takes money from NC Sons of Confederate Veterans and won't explain why.

#ncpol

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A #NCGOP supporter held a rally at his racetrack for Dan Forest, including confederate flags. A couple weeks later, he pretended to sell ‘bubba rope’ to mock NC #NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace.

#ncpol

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When some #NCGOP partisans wanted to have a heritage-of-hate rally w a side of voter intimidation at #ncpol primary early voting location in Pittsboro, NC, they brought their confed flags, Trump flags, & other hate symbols.



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#NCGOP has never disavowed their confederate supporters’ voter intimidation at the #ncpol Pittsboro early voting site on 2/15/2020.



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Confederate flaggers have infested Pittsboro since the Chatham Co elected officials began discussions of lawful removal of the Pittsboro #ncpol Jim Crow trophy.

Statue is long gone.

But they still show up w #ncgop & heritage-of-hate symbols.



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In Graham, NC in Sept, #NCGOP supporters combine confed flags, trump flags, w a shout of "F* You, N*".

Stay classy, NCGOP.

#ncpol
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Sometimes in these racist/anti-racist standoffs, #NCGOP supporters go beyond confed stuff and give a full throated Nazi salute to their dear leader, Trump.

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The #NCGOP confeds often show up at political protests armed, in violation of #NCpol state law.

They believe in the NCGOP. And some of them believe that they have a right to do the NCGOP's white supremacy bidding on the street, violently.



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Confederates came on to UNC campus in Chapel Hill with guns, a felony, shortly after Silent Sam was completely removed in defiance of #NCGOP. The police shook their hands and made no arrests.

#ncpol

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When the KKK came to Hillsborough Aug 2019, they came armed. Brought their #NCGOP Trump apparel as well.

#ncpol



21/
A klansman at Hillsborough sported a #NCpol SCV state issued license plate with the slogan AKIA: A Klansman I Am.

These confederate license plates are a #NCgop invention.

22/
When NC Sons of Confederate Veterans demanded a special license plate, 1996-1999 #NCGOP chairman Sam Currin represented them free of charge.

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#ncpol

#NCGOP '96-'99 Chairman Currin also helped radicalize Sons of Confederate Veterans. When a member wanted to rid the org of white supremacy, Currin physically escorted him out. He & his supporters were kicked out of the org.



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#ncpol
In addition to NC SCV, #NCGOP 96-99 Chairman Currin was a member of Heirs To The Confederacy when members of that group urinated on and defaced a memorial to #UNC's slaves in 2019.




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#ncpol
Currin was law partners with Thom Goolsby, #NCGOP UNC Board of Governors appointee that:
-resigned in disgrace from #NCGA
-had his Investment Advisor registration revoked
-was reprimanded by the Bar



#ncpol

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Goolsby publicly promoted the flawed #NCGOP legal theory of the Monument Law, which experts dismissed & which #Juneteenth2020 proved entirely wrong.

(Silent Sam is long gone. Didn't have to go back up in 90 days.)

newsobserver.com/opinion/articl…

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The incorrect #NCGOP legal theory on Silent Sam & other #NCpol Jim Crow trophies greatly increased tensions between racists & anti-racists on the street. Confederates believed they were defending the law bc the ruling party told them so.

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Beyond riling up confeds, the bad #NCGOP Monument Law theory was strategic for the #NCpol white supremacy agenda.

Cooper gave #UNC the ok to remove Silent Sam.

NCGOP UNC BoG went w their own theory, which did not come from NC Executive branch.

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The NCGOP Silent Sam legal theory hinged on "safety" & who could rule on it.

Monument law has no private right of action, and Exec Branch was fine with removal for safety.

They didn't have to restore Silent Sam. They wanted to.

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#NCGOP Monument Law is unconstitutional like requiring pledge of allegiance is. Civic landscaping is a horrible place to have a moral 1A battle.

They don't want to remove offensive #ncpol landscaping, so they must harden them, & that takes $$$.

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But #NCGOP had to be quiet about supporting white supremacy in fall of 2018. Apple was thinking of opening a big operation in NC, & they didn't like confed politics.

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#ncpol

the NC Sons of Confederate Veterans had a PAC for lobbying
#ncpol on white supremacy issues. It even had a Legislative Day at the UDC house, just blocks from #NCGA.

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We know some details of NC SCV's white supremacy lobbying of #NCGOP. They came out when NCGOP appointed Board of Governors tried to give NC SCV $2.5M for a Silent Sam shrine with a fake collusive lawsuit called #SilentSham.

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 #ncpol

dailytarheel.com/article/2019/1…
NC SCV victory email says
-they didn't have a way to get to court over Silent Sam
-they were getting a new HQ as well as a Silent Sam shrine, and op support
-they only expected $300-500k, but #NCGOP came up with $2.5M

#ncpol

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And NC SCV head Kevin Stone, also head of the ‘Mechanized Cavalry’ a white supremacy biker gang, was very proud that their good #ncpol fortune all came at the expense of #UNC -- ‘owning the libs.’

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Though the #NCGOP fake collusive law suit was declared illegal after intensive public pressure, NC SCV got to keep the $74,999 that set up the law suit.

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#NCpol

Along w flawed Monument Law, #NCGOP also wrongly believes that NC SCV is a legitimate, totally-not-racist steward of #NCPol history.

Like when Steve Troxler takes their $$$ so they can lie about black lives at @NCStateFair.

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#ncpol #DropTroxler

Or when Confederate Dan Forest, #NCGOP candidate for #NCpol Governor, takes NC SCV white supremacy $$$ & won't explain why.

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They can say they somehow own the 'real history' & don't hang w violent racists, but their leaders were coordinating with hate groups in Pittsboro at the same time they were lining up $2.5M from #NCGOP.

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#ncpol

The #NCGOP ties to #NCpol white supremacy aren’t exclusively w NC SCV. They have racist members like Pittman that are never condemned for crazy talk like #BLM protestors should be shot.

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...and #NCGOP Bob Steinburg doing #ncpol racism on Facebook.

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And of course the racial gerrymandering. Devaluing black votes so that they can be a minority ruling party -- #NCGOP has majorities in both houses but got less votes.

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#ncpol

White supremacy is so baked in to #NCGOP that they can't be counted on to address the #NCed & #ncpol problem of 2 histories.

More NCians wrongly believe CW was mainly about states' rights than correctly say it was mainly about slavery.

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elon.edu/u/elon-poll/wp…
FBI knows white supremacy terrorism is top threat. #NCGOP has no answer for #ncpol, even in their law & order messaging.

A vote for any NCGOP is NOT:
-for #BlackLivesMatter
-against white supremacy terror
-for 1 #nced history

/end
thenation.com/article/politi…

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