Ida Bae Wells

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RT @jaywillis: Here is Clarence Thomas, writing for 6 of 9 Supreme Court justices, explaining that the prospect of a federal court hearing… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SenateBanking: As if there weren’t already enough barriers to buying a home, now Black families also have to compete with big investors… — PolitiTweet.org

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@johndawkins @Gurdur @FightingFitzman @MoeThacker1 @LitUpMagazine1 That is not why the war was fought. I don’t know what to tell you. — PolitiTweet.org

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@johndawkins @Gurdur @FightingFitzman @MoeThacker1 @LitUpMagazine1 History is complicated, it’s nuanced and almost never aligns to the myths that sustain us. — PolitiTweet.org

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@johndawkins @Gurdur @FightingFitzman @MoeThacker1 @LitUpMagazine1 Now, Lincoln himself was evolved by in both his views on slavery and on Black Americans and their role as citizens in a democracy and before he died, he supported 13th and was killed because he’d grown to become open to limited Black male suffrage. — PolitiTweet.org

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@johndawkins @Gurdur @FightingFitzman @MoeThacker1 @LitUpMagazine1 Most white Americans did not support the abolitionist movement. — PolitiTweet.org

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@johndawkins @Gurdur @FightingFitzman @MoeThacker1 @LitUpMagazine1 And as many white Northerners began to think of the war as being about ending slavery, they began to oppose the war. They were willing to die to preserve the Union but not for Black people. Hence: draft riots, race massacres, etc. — PolitiTweet.org

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@johndawkins @Gurdur @FightingFitzman @MoeThacker1 @LitUpMagazine1 The Emancipation, a war measure designed to cripple the South by removing its labor force and to bolster the Union by finally allowing Black soldiers to fight, did not apply to slave states that remained loyal to the Union. — PolitiTweet.org

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@johndawkins @Gurdur @FightingFitzman @MoeThacker1 @LitUpMagazine1 Lincoln was anti-slavery but not an abolitionist and had no intention of abolishing slavery though he did want to I see it’s expansion limited. He entered the war to keep the Union from breaking apart and refused until he feared losing the war to even abolish slavery in rebel st. — PolitiTweet.org

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@johndawkins @Gurdur @FightingFitzman @MoeThacker1 @LitUpMagazine1 This is a mistake many novices of history make: treating motivation and result as one in the same. The South started the civil war with Ft. Sumpter over fears Lincoln’s election would mean an attack on slavery. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MoeThacker1 @FightingFitzman @NYCSWH @LitUpMagazine1 I don’t think so. — PolitiTweet.org

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@FightingFitzman @NYCSWH @MoeThacker1 @LitUpMagazine1 Yes, though we had sugar here. But also, other non-English colonies emancipated more enslaved people than the US and other British colonies. The English were simply more rigid and opposed to having a significant free Black population. — PolitiTweet.org

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@FightingFitzman @NYCSWH @MoeThacker1 @LitUpMagazine1 Oh, it certainly played a role, applying a pressure that had started to make continuing engagement in the trade morally indefensible. But the abolition movement was not the primary driver. — PolitiTweet.org

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@FightingFitzman @NYCSWH @MoeThacker1 @LitUpMagazine1 It was to the economic advantage of the U.S., which was breeding its own self-replenishing enslaved population, to stop the international trade. And still, illegal smuggling of enslaved people into the U.S. continues until 1865. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NYCSWH @FightingFitzman @MoeThacker1 @LitUpMagazine1 At the Civil War, the US had the largest population of enslaved people in the hemisphere, more than even Brazil, which imported millions more Africans into slavery than the U.S. but also emancipated far more. — PolitiTweet.org

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@FightingFitzman @NYCSWH @MoeThacker1 @LitUpMagazine1 I mean, I get it, we’ve all been told an incomplete history that furthers the master (I’d argue master’s) narrative in an effort to downplay the moral and economic liability in engaging in chattel slavery and the Trans-Atlantic trade. But simplistic fairytales are not useful. — PolitiTweet.org

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@FightingFitzman @NYCSWH @MoeThacker1 @LitUpMagazine1 You might want to read a bit more WHY Britain ended slavery in its colonies because of constant rebellions amongst the enslaved, and in doing so, tried to end the international trade so as to keep other colonial powers from dominating economically. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NYCSWH @FightingFitzman @MoeThacker1 @LitUpMagazine1 Ignorant. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CREWcrew: If money going to members of the president's family from foreign countries is a major deal to Republicans, why aren't any of… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SawyerHackett: .@JulianCastro to @mehdirhasan: “Collegiality is a very strong sentiment—often stronger than partisanship, and it can b… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DionneGrant: “Bold, fearless, and possessing a great intellect and wit, the Prime Minister is a brilliant politician who knows how to s… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Sifill_LDF: Just had a chance to read this explosive and horrifying story. https://t.co/1tJek4SAgF — PolitiTweet.org

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@AdinaYoffie @michaelharriot It is a standard practice for historians ti cite people they talked to who led them to the sources they actually cite? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TimOBrien: Cashing in on White House connections: Kushner and Mnuchin stand apart from previous WH officials “for the speed of their pi… — PolitiTweet.org

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@trans_icon_mika @rayraybernard @adamdavidson @rcallimachi I do not see what in this paragraph says what she said it says. Could you point it out to me. — PolitiTweet.org

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@taylortheartist @michaelharriot @nytimes @Citi I can tell you haven’t read the piece you’re attacking. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Sean_Munger @adamdavidson I have no idea what you mean or why the “this is bullshit” was necessary. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AdinaYoffie @michaelharriot I’m guessing you haven’t read the piece but just Twitter takes on it because it includes many citations and a bibliography. — PolitiTweet.org

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@loquatsandmilk @adamdavidson Show me the exact sentence or graphs you’re referring to. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rayraybernard @adamdavidson @rcallimachi That’s not what the NYT claimed. — PolitiTweet.org