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@JoyAnnReid I have a confession. When it was over I drank a tall glass of Ivermectin. Feeling on top of the world today. Here is another fact about Lee. During Confederate operations in the north he ordered the kidnapping and enslavement of free black people. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Wildwood687: @ProjectLincoln @SteveSchmidtSES @thereidout Please Retweet. It would be great to get the attention. More than 123,000 chi… — PolitiTweet.org

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Always good to join @thereidout with @JoyAnnReid on @msnbc — PolitiTweet.org

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Looking forward to joining @JoyAnnReid in the next hour on @msnbc @amjoyshow — PolitiTweet.org

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When I read this it makes me wonder about the person that tells President Xi about it. — PolitiTweet.org

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to begin with. History’s judgements comes slowly. Yet, come they do. — PolitiTweet.org

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There it fell. In Richmond. In 2021, one of the last great monuments to injustice, slavery, treason, totalitarianism, oppression and violence that stood in America was toppled. Along with it came the shattering of the thin glass of the “Lost Cause Myth” that built the monument — PolitiTweet.org

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emotional soul of the fallen South. The telling of lies is always found in a societies monuments. When ignorance erodes any trace of memory it becomes possible to declare that history demands the lie be made sacred and indisputable. Yet history seems to be a relentless pursuer. — PolitiTweet.org

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was the meaning of the Lee Monument. Politeness dictated an exculpatory group think among whites who wanted to pretend that honor and dignity were the declaration being made by the 40 ft high marble Lee astride his faithful Traveller in the middle of the physical heart and — PolitiTweet.org

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Black’s moving North collided with the greatest mass of immigrants in world history, mostly European, who arrived in the US largely between 1870 and 1920. This was the story taught in school. It was my family history but it was only a fraction of the American story. Oppression — PolitiTweet.org

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Lawlessness, oppression and hatred. In 1910, the population of the United States stood at 92 million people. More than 90% of blacks lived in the South. The “Great Migration” north, of millions of Black Americans would last from 1915 to 1970. None of this was taught in school. — PolitiTweet.org

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story is a reality, not a myth. It should be faced head on. Reconciliation was paid for ultimately by black suffering. The North looked away and abandoned the overwhelming majority of black men and women (Freedmen) to a violent Southern Apartheid state that teemed with — PolitiTweet.org

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NYC. He drafted Lee’s acceptance of unconditional surrender and was present at Appomattox. His nephew George would go on to be the one man whom FDR dared not address by his first name. General Marshall helped save the world, more than once. History is complicated. The American — PolitiTweet.org

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arrived at a settling of the record. When the cornerstone for the monument was laid Col. Charles Marshall, a Lee adjutant said Lee was a defender of the Constitution and the Union as it was before Lincoln destroyed it. He also spoke at the dedication of Grant’s monument in — PolitiTweet.org

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“ General Lee’s character has been an example to succeeding generations, making the restoration of his citizenship an event in which every American can take pride”. The removal of the Lee statue from Monument Blvd isn’t an erasure of history. It is a remembrance of it. We have — PolitiTweet.org

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“Times they are a changing’” Robert E. Lee became an American when I was four years old on August 5th, 1975. Upon being made an American for a second time, through the restoration of the birthright he repudiated with treason ,105 years after his death, President Ford said this 👇 — PolitiTweet.org

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5 years. Failure isn’t an option. — PolitiTweet.org

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for Joe Biden because I had faith in his character. I still do. I believe he will meet the test. He is surrounded by bad faith in the form of an emboldened extremist movement that has the ability to turn the United States into a North American version of Hungary over the next — PolitiTweet.org

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I could say that I knew how it would break in the end. I don’t. The American people will decide that question over the next two elections. The answer will determine the type country our grandchildren live and die in. It is a monumental choice. I voted — PolitiTweet.org

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some state of disappointment and disapproval. That is irrelevant in the context of making electoral calculations. In the end, political greatness is the province of historians. We are living on the edge of a fault line straddling an old era and a new one in this country. I wish — PolitiTweet.org

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coalition is not made up of cultists who are programmed by a vast propaganda apparatus. Biden leads the Democratic Party. It is the only party in America that remains faithful to the Constitution, pluralism and democracy. He leads a fractious coalition that will often exist in — PolitiTweet.org

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they demonstrate the character to lead in the darkest hours. Some of the things Joe Biden brought to the Presidency were endurance, grit, empathy, conviction, faith and determination. All will be tested. For me, I have faith in the man. I trust his character. The Presidents — PolitiTweet.org

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saying he felt like “the moon, the stars and all of the planets had fallen on me”. So it is today. All Presidents err. They make mistakes. Tragedies unfold on their watch. The test of a great President isn’t whether bad events occurred during their time . Rather, it is whether — PolitiTweet.org

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April 12, 1945 he was greeted by Eleanor Roosevelt. “Harry, the President is dead” she said. Truman responded by asking if there was anything he could do for Mrs. Roosevelt. “No Mr. President, is there anything I can do for you” she replied. Truman recalled the moment by — PolitiTweet.org

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during the Presidency is whether that is an incapacitating trait. I don’t believe that is the case. There are moments when Presidents are alone both literally and figuratively. When Harry Truman arrived at the WH after rushing back from a card game in the Speakers office on — PolitiTweet.org

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relatively low on the list of escalating National crisis. All Presidents are tested by crisis and the accumulation of events. The American Presidency is a character test. It reveals its occupants fully. For example, some say the President is stubborn. What will be revealed — PolitiTweet.org

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breathlessness of an X games commentator fresh from the student radio station. The overall effect is to create a type of undertow, a rip tide that pulls the whole of the population towards stupid. That’s unfortunate and frankly unsolvable but the good news is that it remains — PolitiTweet.org

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.@EdwardGLuce should be a regular must read for any person interested in the qualities of sobriety, thoughtfulness, historical perspective, honesty and common sense in the commentary surrounding our tumultuous times. Much of the political media covers politics with the — PolitiTweet.org

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This Trump statement is a perfect monument to his imbecility, ignorance and poor taste. Lee is gone. Washington and Lee stripped his name off the chapel he is buried under. There will never be a monument to Trump. History will judge him harshly and brutally. — PolitiTweet.org