Andy (River) Peterson

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

@laura_hudson @rachsyme @tacobell ALSO HERE FOR THIS. Note that @rebleber can vouch for my expertise in Taco Bell-related art criticism. — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

Great news for NYT and readers! — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

@moorehn @Scheopner Traveling out that way for vacation in a few weeks, please hit me up with your top food and touristy recs! (Where are you finding the best dogs? Yes, I know they are all the best dogs) — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

I’d make a joke about new beaches to visit, but I’m actually over joking about our dystopia? Mood: earnest concern. https://t.co/Gjp8BSBGHK — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

RT @joejerome: Police told the court that they didn't obtain a warrant because "we had the resources available at the time … to go ahead an… — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

RT @GeneMeyer: Thanks to @kansasalps for mentioning my book on #Juneteenth. The story is timeless and ever more relevant. @ChiReviewPress @… — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

RT @GeneMeyer: @kansasalps Thanks to @kansasalps for mentioning my book on #Juneteenth. The story is timeless and ever more relevant. @ChiR… — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

And one last note: if you want to learn more about Anderson and the four other black revolutionaries who fought alongside Brown at Harpers Ferry, go read @GeneMeyer's book Five for Freedom: https://t.co/K8AWrmOs3K — PolitiTweet.org

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But we should not try to exorcise these ghosts. Instead, I hope we can keep them alive by sharing their narratives. I truly believe a story can still save you from oblivion, even when you lose the place. — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

The story of how my adopted home city effectively displaced the bodies of people who should be held up as America’s heroes haunts me. And now, I hope it haunts you. — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

Kayakers found some of the gravemarkers along the banks of the Potomac decades later. News reports at the time indicated the memorials were used as rubble. — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

Anderson and tens of thousands of other, mostly black, bodies were dug up and transplanted to the Maryland suburbs when the cemetery hit financial troubles in the late 1950s. Their tombstones were not. — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

When Anderson died he was buried, along with many other black intellectuals and freedom fighters, in what was then Columbian Harmony Cemetery. It’s now a metro parking lot. — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

Anderson continued to fight and lived on to see emancipation, before dying of tuberculosis in Washington, DC in the 1870s. But his story didn’t end there. — PolitiTweet.org

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He escaped the Harpers Ferry raid, and even wrote an astonishing first-hand account of his resistance and persistence that you can read here: https://t.co/MdNucaSx7a — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

Anderson was born free in Pennsylvannia, but immigrated to Canada, where he was elected a “Congressman” in Brown’s Chatham Convention - which produced a new “Provisional Constitution” explicitly calling for an end to slavery. — PolitiTweet.org

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When most people think about Harpers Ferry, it conjures up John Brown’s mythos and martyrdom. But Anderson’s story is even more interesting, and I would argue, important. — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

Anderson was the lone black survivor of the raiding party that attempted to foment a second American revolution to end slavery in Harpers Ferry. — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

Spending this Juneteenth thinking about the justice still left undone and writing songs about Osborne Perry Anderson. https://t.co/YddulRVq9z — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

RT @Krhawkins5: Here is my bat signal to national security reporters on the CIA seeking to criminalize--certainly their sources, possibly a… — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

Never again means being vigilant about what is happening now. Our own government is reporting on inhumane conditions at the camps along the border. See this IG report from LAST MONTH: https://t.co/xixsPMbsFV https://t.co/7ztedtriKr — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

RT @jeffspross: Hell is that “someone is wrong on the internet” xkcd comic just repeated on an endless loop for eternity. And we are all al… — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

@kerryrm yes, and it was the absolute wrong thing to read that high above ground! — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

Matt: can you come help me with stuff downstairs? Me: In a few minutes I'm, reading an article... it's long, maybe five minutes? Matt: Is it the Flight MH370 article? Me: No, I read that on the plane yesterday. — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

So, uh, now that we can mostly agree that America is keeping children kidnapped from their parents in concentration camps can we... do something about that? Like, get the kids out of the concentration camps? — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

RT @trekonomics: Time to re-up Justice Murphy's dissent in Korematsu v United States (Fred Korematsu unsuccessfully argued that his internm… — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

Here for this — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

@RachelFeltman @acsbaum ... we’re waiting — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

Was gone for five days, cats missed us enough to basically shed an additional cat on our bed https://t.co/I4x24lnjul — PolitiTweet.org

Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

Gotta get myself invited to these Azalea parties, basically 🌿🌿🌿🎉🎉🎉 — PolitiTweet.org