@MotherJones Are you kidding? In VA we have schools, bridges& streets named after these treasonous, hateful Hitler's heroes!!
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@MotherJones Your list of schools missed Jefferson Davis Middle School in Jacksonville, Florida.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@MotherJones And then the nation's capital city and an entire state is named after a slave owner! But why stop there?!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@MotherJones And slave owner monuments in DC like the Jefferson Memorial. Heck, Stone Mountain is visible from all of Atlanta!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@MotherJones So should we get really radical, not just take down flags but close schools, fire or imprison people with related names, really -
@DawnDrd22@MotherJones Off with their heads!#FrenchRevolution#Jacobins#ReignOfTerror
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@MotherJones why do Americans always have to push issues to absurd extremes. Your revolutionary heroes had slavesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@MotherJones United Snakes of America. -- Nina SimoneThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@MotherJones Wrong on Lee & Mosby. Both against secession but fought for VA. North racist too. Abolitionists & Rad Repub wanted rights 4 blk -
@MotherJones If no public bldg can be named for anyone who ever made an Anti-African remark, then strike off Washington, Jefferson, Jackson -
@MotherJones Also remove Lincoln -- "natural disgust to amalgamation" of whites & blacks, deport blacks & replace w/ whites, no pol/social -
@MotherJones Lincoln -- fed gov had no right to interfere with slavery where it already existed, no pol/social equality, "mixed breed bast"
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@MotherJones Notorious Racists like Woodrow Wilson? How about slaveholders like Washington and Jefferson?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@MotherJones What monuments of the past are we willing to burn to appease the present because it offends?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@MotherJones First get your facts & history right. That flag is the battle flag of the Army of Northern VA not "the Confederate Flag." WrongThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@MotherJones How about all the Europeans who started the slave trade? What about slavery in Europe (serfdom) or in Egypt w/ Jewish people?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@MotherJones Are you looking into the racism against whites? I've survived that as a child in the South & still surviving an event recently. - End of conversation
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