Jake Tapper

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Jake Tapper @jaketapper

...that of civil rights activist Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, born on this day in 1875, a VP of the NAACP, adviser to FDR, founder of a school for Black girls that ultimately became Bethune-Cookman College, and so much more. 2/ https://t.co/lXNwdXQHYM — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 13, 2022

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The below statue of traitorous Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith -- who surrendered on June 2, 1865, in Galveston, Texas, and fled to Mexico then Cuba to avoid arrest for treason (later returning to Florida) -- is gone, and today is being replaced with a new one.... 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

🚨 Progress! The confederate general that has represented the State of Florida in the U.S. Capitol since the Jim Cro… https://t.co/NISTWyAbYk

Posted July 13, 2022

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In 2019, @GovRonDeSantis formally requested that the Architect of the U.S. Capitol replace the Kirby statue with one of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, "represent(ing) the first African American to have a state-commissioned statue in National Statuary Hall." 3/ https://t.co/KcG3SlGd0N — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 13, 2022