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randy_byersSeriously, the Faulknerian ghosts in my head are dying under this barrage, and some version of Buffy-the-history-crap-slayer seems to be taking their place.
-- sporcupine in comments at Ta-Nehisi Coates' blog, where he has been "celebrating" Confederate History Month with an amazing series of posts about the Civil War and the Reconstruction from the slaves' and freedmen's point of view -- check out "One War. Three Sides." for but one example, or "Honoring CHM: One Drop" or "Heroic Memory" (about Robert E. Lee) -- and all of this stuff resonates with what we're seeing from the Tea Party right now
-- sporcupine in comments at Ta-Nehisi Coates' blog, where he has been "celebrating" Confederate History Month with an amazing series of posts about the Civil War and the Reconstruction from the slaves' and freedmen's point of view -- check out "One War. Three Sides." for but one example, or "Honoring CHM: One Drop" or "Heroic Memory" (about Robert E. Lee) -- and all of this stuff resonates with what we're seeing from the Tea Party right now
