Libs, be warned! As day breaks in Cville without memorials to Lee or JohnnyReb, our awareness of or even ability to discuss the Civil War vanished. Confused, we sought out libraries, documentaries & books, but are powerless to learn history absent statues of racist losers.
Worse yet, Libs, their absence is filled with stories of earlier attempts at multiracial democracy like the Readjuster party and “reluctant Secessionist” Lee’s second treason against 🇺🇸, undermining Reconstruction & Black citizenship long after Grant offered a path to redemption.
Real histories have so many words and fewer pictures than the comic book propaganda I got in schools. Reconstruction got 4 pages, and Eric Foner alone asks me to read hundreds?! And which way do I even pronounce DuBois? #Exhausting Like Lee, I clearly fought for the wrong side.
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