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Nov 30, 2020 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
She is worth 500 million dollars. She's is the wealthiest United States senator. She is running against a man who grew up in the projects.
60 years later and they're still calling the senior paster of Ebenezer Baptist Church a communist.
Aug 19, 2019 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Related: In *1790s* Charles P. Sumner, Sen. Charles Sumner’s father, was against Massachusetts miscegenation laws & believed Boston schools should integrated. As a young man he sailed to Haiti to celebrate their revolution.
Then went on to be sheriff of Boston’s Suffolk County.
Also related: The fact that people like Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens, or even John Brown, aren’t well know & celebrated as American heroes, on the level of the founders & Lincoln, helps explain the anxious conservative backlash at the #1619Project.
Dec 13, 2018 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
When talking about the #GOP of the 1860s(especially party founders/leaders), we‘re talking about a party that’s virtually all white men, with abolition as a foundational tenet—caring about/acting on the best interests of millions of ppl they didn’t know, personally or culturally.
