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Cancel culture! The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles is no longer issuing specialty license plates featuring the Confederate battle flag, according to a statement. The agency said removal of the license plate, issued to members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans organization, took effect Jan. 1, the StarNews of Wilmington reported. The move comes six months […]
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A Hero For Our Times

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On June 20, 2020
One of the real heroic acts of the modern age was when Bree Newsome (now Bree Newsome Bass) climbed the flag pole at the South Carolina statehouse to take the down the Treason in Defense of Slavery flag. That act really started the modern era of attacking and now defeating the racist revanchist elements of […]

She’s Running

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On December 7, 2019

Nikki Haley is an utterly detestable human being. And she’s obviously running for the Republican nomination in 2024. As such, there’s going to be a lot more of this. Nikki Haley says the C

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Tony Horwitz, RIP

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On May 28, 2019
Tony Horwitz has died suddenly, only 60 years old. I can’t say what an important book Confederates in the Attic was when it came out in 1998. It’s really a pioneering book in the popular understanding of just how toxic the Confederate flag and Confederate nostalgia is in this nation. It combines hilarity–following around these […]

Heritage, Not Hate

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On August 22, 2018

There’s a big country music festival every year near Brownsville, Oregon. An African-American guy was there, in my supposedly progressive state. He saw a jerk who had a Confederate flag on his t

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