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I often wonder what would have happened if General Grant had not personally stopped Robert E. Lee's treason trial. A Norfolk grand jury indicted Lee in June 1865. Grant stopped it.
Lee went on to run a college that raped Black schoolgirls, attacked the Freedmen's school, and tried to lynch a Black man. The Freedmen's Bureau documented it. Lee ran it.
Then every Lee statue, erected mostly in the early 1900s as "America First", symbolized this record of rape and lynching. Unveilings came with speeches like Julian Carr's at UNC in 1913, boasting of whipping a Black woman until her skirt shredded. A 2021 PNAS study proved Confederate monuments are the counties with the most lynchings.
It's clear why Lee should have hanged in 1865.
Americans should have no illusions about the history when they ask why so few Black women reached office, let alone survived. And specifically should be taught why "moving on" instead of punishing white supremacists resulted in widespread domestic terrorism.
I did not know that not only did Democrats win big in Georgia, they also won ALL the statewide races they were on in Georgia, and ALL those democratic winners were women, and ALL of them were Black.
Georgia elected ALL. Democratic. Black. Women.
Yes. YEEEESSS!!! Georgia, no pressure, but you need to SHINE for the rest of the country now. Everyone else, PAY ATTENTION!! :D
