In the American Revolution, the men who revolted were among the wealthiest and most comfortable people in the colonies. What kind of revolution was it, anyway? Was it about a desire to establish democracy—or something…
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A thread on the particular (and intensifying) threats to voting rights here in 2020
I hope you will read & share & join the struggle to demand & fight for the democracy that we deserve but which, as @SceneOnRadio & Langston Hughes remind us "never has been yet."
He is in the pantheon of white accomplices, along with John Brown. https://twitter.com/analuciaraujo_/status/1246764985725997056
Thaddeus Stevens was born on April 4 in 1792. A fierce, uncompromising opponent of slavery, he was a true American revolutionary. #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians https://jacobinmag.com/2020/04/thaddeus-stevens-revolutionary-radical-republican-antislavery
Some pieces of journalism have "first draft of history" written all over them. This is one of those. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/04/04/coronavirus-government-dysfunction/
