History Is Not Distant, It Is Breathing Beside Us
In New Orleans, a 97-year-old collapses the lie of “ancient history”. Martin Luther King Jr. is not remote; slavery’s afterlives are not abstract. The wealth of bondage built America, while its descendants were locked out. This past is recent, embodied, and unresolved. Black History is not nostalgia, it is an indictment.
.@JamesTalarico: Are you aware that this bill removes the writings of Frederick Douglass?
Republican: I am
Talarico: Are you aware that this bill removes the writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
Republican: Yes
Talarico: Yet this bill still includes the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville, and he's not even an American. Could that be because he's a white man?
Republican: N-not exactly…
Shapiro: We know he was of the left.
Maher: We don’t know shit Ben… I’m hearing he’s in group that think Kirk wasn’t right wing enough— the groypers. You’re sure he’s not that?
Shapiro: I’m not sure he’s not that.
Maher: A few seconds ago you were.
@elonmusk But what was said is absolutely true. You did do that, it was compared to a Nazi salute, and you denied it meant that.
You are telling people that something which is 100% accurate is propaganda. Is this your final, most essential command?