The South had no slaves - they were freedom-challenged /s

Didn’t our attorney general’s namesake start shelling Fort Sumpter?

While I think all of those books are horrible, and the idea of them getting burnt to cinders sounds appealing, I want them preserved by progressives, so that any time someone tries to deny the horrors of slavery and the thinking of the slave-holding states, we can slap a book in their face and say, “look, it…

Actually, you bring up a very good analogy. We can understand the Southern view of its history/heritage by comparing it with the Trump presidency.

Lincoln declared war on the Confederacy. Not the other way around. So it would be hard to argue that the Confederacy levied war.

Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas. Virginia gives Lee and Davis the Friday before MLK day. Four day weekend!

Va. State employees get the Friday before MLK day off for Lee/Jackson Day. That’s after they split it off from the the Lee/Jackson/King Monday holiday. But I think that’s about it.

For fuck sake, people. Memorialize doesn’t mean honor. It means “preserve the memory of.” We all must memorialize the Confederacy or we leave it to the people with a vested interest in denying the facts to write the history, which is what they’ve done for 140 years.

I don’t work retail. I’ve never had Black Friday off anywhere I’ve worked.

I think a lot of places have stopped celebrating it. I’m in Richmond and only saw one place that posted anything about it (a realty company run by a gun nut)

Texas Independence Day. Which, ironically, is also Sam Houston Day.

I remember talking to some Civil War reenactors (who are a fun weird bunch), and a lot of them said something along the lines of “blah blah I had relatives fights on both sides, I just honor those who fought.” But then, why not have a Civil War Remembrance Day? It’s not like the Confederacy had any history outside the…

Who the hell gives Black Friday off as a holiday?

Lee/Jackson/King day in VA almost made me spontaneously combust when I first heard about it as a freshman at a VA college. I thought it was a sick joke.

Texans are really into The Alamo.

Trump’s presidency?

Students at that age really aren’t prepared to tell the difference between what is history and what is religious conviction.

Tangentially, as someone who tours religious schools regularly (preschool-college) for my job, let me tell you what I see written on the chalkboard is disheartening (anti-science stuff). Also, the size of libraries at these religious institutions is appalling. One college just had a makeshift trailer as their…

FROM THE CHARLESTON GAZETTE-MAIL: The lawsuit alleges the Bible classes include “Creationism instruction” that involves “having students imagine that human beings and dinosaurs existed at the same time.” It quotes one lesson as saying “So picture Adam being able to crawl up on the back of dinosaur! He and Eve could…

“It’s not teaching religion, but it teaches character and respect and how important it is to tell the truth,”