26
Commenter: Tamra
Commenter's Site:
Comment Date: Jun 26, 2015 2:20pm EST/NYC

Department of Defense has no plans to change any bases named after confederates
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1020256651338325&id=114634691900530

--which explains the culture of racism in our military

30
Commenter: Tamra
Commenter's Site:
Comment Date: Jul 3, 2015 7:52pm EST/NYC

Why do people believe myths about the confederacy? www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/07/01/why-do-people-believe-myths-about-the-confederacy-because-our-textbooks-and-monuments-are-wrong/

31
Commenter: Tamra
Commenter's Site: https://itamra.com
Comment Date: Jul 3, 2015 7:54pm EST/NYC

degenerates-kkk will hold a Labor Day cross burning — and they want supporters to bring their children www.rawstory.com/2015/07/the-kkk-will-hold-a-labor-day-cross-burning-and-they-want-supporters-to-bring-their-children/

32
Commenter: Tamra
Commenter's Site:
Comment Date: Jul 3, 2015 8:14pm EST/NYC

How people convince themselves that the Confederate flag represents freedom, not slavery
Historian John M. Coski examines the fights over the symbol's meaning in "The confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem." www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2015/06/19/how-people-convince-themselves-that-the-confederate-flag-represents-freedom-not-slavery/

130
Commenter: Tamra
Commenter's Site:
Comment Date: Dec 21, 2015 8:47am EST/NYC

Unfortunately, if true and not part of the exact same propaganda distributed by Sons of confederate Vets, Robert E Lee fought for the side that chose slavery as the sole reason for Civil War. (I lowercase "confederates" for many reasons.) And I know many don't want to read much these days, it has to be dumbed-down to choose a side quickly, but that's also part of the "yea, confederates are great men" problem.

All other issues prior to Civil War had been resolved, confederates wouldn't budge on slavery and right to transport their slaves as property across state lines for "travel, rape and torture through bondage services". This isn't hidden information, but well documented in both confederate and non-confederate libraries and museums across the country, but chosen to be ignored and misrepresented (including by K-12 educators) at the offense of many.

Meanwhile, Sons of confederate Vets along w/ kkk, both of which today's GOP shaper, Strom Thurmond was a member of, are trying daily to rewrite history to glorify the losers and their losing cause (slavery), by rewriting their reason for creating Civil War. Their parroted-lie, "loyalty to the states," which is the equivalent of Germany rewriting its Nazi history and Holocaust as simply "loyalty to Germany," then erecting monuments to Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels and Hitler-loyal Nazi SS officers, who represent same exact values as Sons of confederate Vets and kkk (founded by another confederate General, Nathan Bedford Forrest).

Sons of confederate Vets' Strom Thurmond also co-wrote Southern Manifesto (also available in libraries across the country), an outline for racism and discrimination, with Carl Vinson. US Navy chose to honor Vinson with a ship naming (USS Carl Vinson/CVN70). Carl Vinson never served a day in military, but was behind many policies promoting hate and domestic terrorism against non-whites, Jews and women in military.

US is one of the few countries which honors its domestic terrorists, persons who were scheduled to be kicked out of our country, because Lincoln saw their evil hearts personally and knew they couldn't evolve, and would continue to perpetuate racist policies eternally. And Lincoln was right, as immediately after his assassination (funded by confederate Jefferson Davis and carried out by confederates), confederate sympathizer Andrew Johnson (one of worst Presidents in history) reversed all that Union soldiers fought and died for, which gave rise to Nathan Bedford Forrest's kkk, and led to terrorism such as:

• Jim Crow and Jim Crow laws with violence even against whites who refused to hate non-whites and Jews;
  
• Rosewood, Florida massacre;
  
• Native Indian massacres and land thefts;
  
• 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma race riot (largest in history with guns and ammo provided by NRA - https://tulsahistory.org/learn/online-exhibits/the-tulsa-race-riot/ / https://www.thenation.com/article/tulsa-1921/);
  
• Slocum, Texas massacre;
  
• 1963 Birmingham, Alabama church bombing;
  
• murders of Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman;
  
• and many more acts of domestic terrorism from confederate worshipers and sympathizers.
  

Shockingly law enforcement and military members participated in domestic terrorism, including against Jews, who were denied military rights and equal treatment. Twisted irony: when someone fights back against confederates and confederate sympathizer's legacy of hatred, violence and inequality, they're the ones called "un-American", "savages", "a drain on society", by confederate sympathizers and those whose family migrated here during Jim Crow, for the whites only-Jim Crow policies and benefits.

Germany chose to honor Claus Von Stauffenberg and members of Operation Valkyrie, who fought against Hitler - persons who were originally wrongly labeled and ostracized by Hitler loyalists immediately after WWII. Germany later, and wisely, chose to outlaw all Nazi propaganda and Nazi loyalists. the end result: progress for its country, instead of a version of the US's 150+ years after Civil War, still dealing with the same racial nonsense, while denying accurate historical teachings. Ignorance has stalled our country 24/7, and leads to boiling points of violence every single decade.

173
Commenter: Tamra
Commenter's Site:
Comment Date: Apr 12, 2016 9:51pm EST/NYC

peep this piece of illiterate garbage who thinks it's "The Blacks" who need a lesson about the confederate flag: https://www.facebook.com/jeremy.lee.1654700. They've since deleted their post, filled with one typo after another, but their bio cover photo confirms they've been indoctrinated with bullshit their entire life. then again, what neo-confederate hasn't been?

267
Commenter: Tamra
Commenter's Site: https://tamra.nyc
Comment Date: May 8, 2017 7:29pm EST/NYC

clearly it's the right decision to remove monuments for confederate treasonists! the persons who support them are JUST as treasonist as the same jackass confederates who fought against THIS country solely for the right to OWN and transport slaves across state lines. these are the SAME persons who disguise that issues as "states rights". Tempers Flare Over Removal of Confederate Statues in New Orleans https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/new-orleans-monuments.html

273
Commenter: TamraNYC
Commenter's Site:
Comment Date: Aug 17, 2017 6:20am EST/NYC

The Monuments Must GoAn open letter from the great, great grandsons of Stonewall Jackson. https://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/08/stonewall_jackson_s_grandsons_the_monuments_must_go.html

We are native Richmonders and also the great, great grandsons of Stonewall Jackson. As two of the closest living relatives to Stonewall, we are writing today to ask for the removal of his statue, as well as the removal of all Confederate statues from Monument Avenue. They are overt symbols of racism and white supremacy, and the time is long overdue for them to depart from public display. Overnight, Baltimore has seen fit to take this action. Richmond should, too.

297
Commenter: The New Nathan
Commenter's Site:
Comment Date: May 13, 2018 6:37pm EST/NYC

If you live to be 100, you'll never meet anyone with even 1% of the dignity, honor, loyalty and bravery of General Forrest. He, his men and The Cause stood for something you can never understand. America has descended into filth, chaos and anarchy. It won't be this way forever. Keep mocking a great leader. You mock what you have no way of comprehending.

298
Commenter: TamraNYC
Commenter's Site:
Comment Date: May 14, 2018 11:08pm EST/NYC

Replying To: The New Nathan

LOLLLLLLLLL I don't need to understand the LOSERS of the Civil War. I only need to understand they're the LOSERS of the Civil War, losers who entered war WITH A LOST CAUSE, like yours! Nathan Bedford Forrest was a degenerate loser and klansman just like you. Oh and I'm publishing your information on various places: 69.137.127.140, trepothipo(at)qwfox(dot)com, https://www.dnsstuff.com/tools#whois|type=ipv4&&value=69.137.127.140 – Hodgenville, Kentucky

299
Commenter: TamraNYC
Commenter's Site:
Comment Date: May 14, 2018 11:39pm EST/NYC

Words of a great war general, General William Tecumseh Sherman, ever so true, even to this day:

You people of the South [replace with today's Strom Thurmond GOP] don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!You mistake, too, the people of the North [replace with liberals and non-rwnj's]. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it… Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?The North [replace with GEEKS who are mostly liberal LOL and don't forget LGBTQ who can fly planes/fighter jets, guide ships, missiles, AND speak critical languages for security!!!] can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make [yeah cuz LOUDEST rwnj (Boehner, Paul Ryan, etc.) rejoiced at outsourcing manufacturing jobs and stood by and watched banks, insurance and car companies FAIL miserably!!!].You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be [because GOP & other rwnj's have insulted our allies profusely: (health care reform, socialism, LGBTQ in military)], your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.

so, um, basically: OUTNUMBERED.

303
Commenter: Tamra
Commenter's Site:
Comment Date: Jun 10, 2018 11:13am EST/NYC

Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) lists all the white supremacists/confederate LOSERS' monuments. that must have been some ass whupping!! the LOSERS can't stop sucking jocks of the losers, TOTAL losers in every way, shape and form. SPLC report: More than 1,700 monuments, place names and other symbols honoring the LOSER Confederacy remain in public spaces https://www.splcenter.org/news/2018/06/04/splc-report-more-1700-monuments-place-names-and-other-symbols-honoring-confederacy-remain

475
Commenter: Tamra
Commenter's Site: https://tamra.nyc
Comment Date: Jul 13, 2019 5:18pm EST/NYC

next time you hear GOP members screaming "Dems are the party of kkk", remember that today's Sons of confederate Vets-kkk-Strom Thurmond-GOP spends its time & worshiping LOSER confederates (Andrew Jackson) & kkk: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tennessee-gov-bill-lee-honors-kkk-grand-wizard-proclamation_n_5d28dd44e4b0060b11ec14fb

ROT IN HELL NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST! ENJOY THE PEE ON EVERY MONUMENT AND YOUR GRAVE FROM EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO KNOWS WHAT A POS YOU WILL ALWAYS BE!!

710
Commenter: frank wood
Commenter's Site:
Comment Date: Nov 19, 2020 7:41am EST/NYC

You need a history lesson and a brain......Ill pray for you... [edited to show the comprehension of Frank Wood]--> as soon as I can comprehend religion, confederacy and pick up a brain myself. You know we're not too bright. After all, we fought for a lost cause, and still think we're the majority of Americans in U.S. One day we'll have our all white country, but for now it's a dream, while we piss and moan daily about getting our asses whipped during Civil War. Dang-gammit General Sherman and his brilliant military planning and strategy. Give us another hundred years to figure something out, we just may win the next war, once we get rid of all them education books.

713
Commenter: Tamra
Commenter's Site:
Comment Date: Dec 9, 2020 8:56pm EST/NYC

Replying To: frank wood

LOLLLLL I think what you're trying to say is I need to be a subservient negro and obey the confederate revisionist history bullshit, like Candace Owens and other internalized racists. THAT'S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN. EDUCATE YOURSELF. STOP ROAMING SITES TO DEFEND TRASH LIKE CONFEDERATES, THE LOSERS OF CIVIL WAR, GEESH. https://www.ourwhirl.com/biden-harris-should-remove-and-outlaw-confederate-symbols/

714
Commenter: Tamra
Commenter's Site:
Comment Date: Dec 9, 2020 9:01pm EST/NYC

In case anyone wants to give this Sons of confederate Vets a history lesson: Frank Wood's contact: butternut4662@dixie-net.com. We don't protect, nor abet confederates here. Jack Dorsey does though, he can spin his confederate revisionist history on Twitter, w/o challenge.

768
Commenter: Tamra
Commenter's Site:
Comment Date: Jul 3, 2022 1:29pm EST/NYC

July 3, 1863 LOSER confederates were stomped at the Battle of Gettysburg. Entered war w/a lost cause - to own slaves, because TOO STUPID to do anything else!! https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-gettysburg-ends

769
Commenter: Tamra
Commenter's Site:
Comment Date: Jul 16, 2022 10:37am EST/NYC

The monuments must come down, and today's generation knows this!

This is also why GOP opposes education!

The activists — young, old, often led by people of color but drawing from across the demographic spectrum — have faced ridicule and hostility from political leaders at all levels. Many have risked their lives when armed counterprotesters, some openly affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan and a broad range of hate groups, have fomented violence, beating protesters, torching their vehicles and worse.

https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/07/15/tragic-comedy

810
Commenter: TamraNYC
Commenter's Site: https://www.tamra.nyc
Comment Date: Apr 3, 2023 7:57pm EST/NYC

About time!! Introducing Fort Cavazos!

https://www.kcbd.com/2023/03/27/fort-hood-be-renamed-after-texas-tech-graduate-richard-cavazos-may/

272
Commenter: Tamra
Commenter's Site: https://www.tamra.nyc
Comment Date: Jul 28, 2017 11:28am EST/NYC

Today, Google's featured image and information highlighted "The Silent Parade" https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=hpp&utm_campaign=Honoring%20the%20Silent%20Parade, which is another reminder of the history of Jim Crow Benefactor-domestic terrorists

791
Commenter: Andre Franklin
Commenter's Site: https://addictioncenter.com
Comment Date: Jan 25, 2023 3:25pm EST/NYC

Hello Tamra, My name is Andre, and I admire your dedication to providing health and wellness resources for the community, especially regarding addiction. As you know, many individuals who have been suicidal either have a mental or substance use disorder, or both, and this has encouraged me to join the community outreach team for AddictionCenter.com. Our web guide provides information on addiction and suicide recovery options and the benefits of committing to a recovery program. You can review our page on suicide and addiction here: https://www.addictioncenter.com/addiction/addiction-and-suicide/. Our team would be honored to support your dedication to informing the community about ways to maintain mental wellness. Would you be willing to add it as a resource to https://www.tamra.nyc/suicide-8002738255/? Together we can help all walks of life on their journey to recovery! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts,Andre FranklinCommunity Outreach SpecialistP: (800) 586-9670 AddictionCenter.com

793
Commenter: Tamra Cronin
Commenter's Site: www.tamra.nyc
Comment Date: Jan 26, 2023 10:46pm EST/NYC

Replying To: Andre Franklin

Thanks for your comment. Yes, addictions can, and do, lead to suicide attempts. However, unresolved trauma is one of the most common causes of suicide – bullying, child abuse and/or rape, violence against others witnessed, extreme poverty, human trafficking and general public safety neglect. It's the unresolved traumas that civic leaders need to focus on, especially for today's children witnessing crime after crime against their fellow students - either in class or at home with family or non-family. Because if it's not suicide, it's murder at the hands of apathetic persons.

I was just reading about Larry Price Jr.: https://popular.info/p/the-untimely-death-of-larry-price. Mr. Price's death was not suicide. Mr. Price was a person who suffered from mental illness, because of a traumatic childhood incident, that caused his mind to split, and left him in chaos, without one adult to help him get counseling needed. Each day Mr. Price lived, cried out, but no one cared to hear him. Even when held in prison without bail, Mr. Price cried out for help, but was ignored.

We need to change the culture of civic leaders, to recognize when those are in need, get the help needed, and call and vote out those leaders who fail to help. We also need to hold leaders accountable when toxic persons are hired, persons who ignore or toy with basic well-being of others, while calling themselves "pro-life," a "hero," or "community leader." Else, we are failing an entire generation, which is running out of options as equal jobs, housing and education are all becoming unattainable goals, leading to more and more suffering of others.

But your link will remain here with this post, and added to the bottom of post as well. Again, thanks for sharing. 🙂