I used to host a national talk show on NPR called 1A, and in one of our early programs, I interviewed a descendant of Confederate soldiers. He argued that Confederate monuments should be historically preserved. Now, as a black man, I felt enormous pressure to remain neutral, so I decided I was just going to focus on his arguments instead of on
agriculturally productive area, burn the mills, kill the livestock, destroy the crops, lay waste to it so that it can't be a logistical support of the Confederacy anymore. Sheridan did it in the Shenandoah Valley, and then Sherman did it in Georgia. But Sherman said, "But I'm also going to break them psychologically. I'm gonna show them that my army can go wherever it wants to go whenever it wants to go, and there's nothing Jefferson Davis can do about it." The great
- Yes. I won't be... One of my favorite pieces of hate mail I got was an email where this guy, I had... He was upset that I referred to the Confederacy as a slave-holding republic that was... And he said that he hoped I would develop virulent pancreatic cancer and die a horrible death. Not just regular pancreatic cancer. He wanted virulent pancreatic cancer And then he signed his name and said he'd be happy to talk to me anytime I wanted
impress horses and mules and enslaved labor to work on All of these were intrusions from the central government that drove true state rights people crazy in the Confederacy. Confederates didn't have political parties because they said the founders didn't want them, so we won't have them. But what they did have was a sort of nationalist, "We're gonna let the central government do whatever it needs to do." That's Jefferson Davis' wing, and Robert E. Lee's over there, too. And the people like the
- Quick pause for a bathroom break if it's okay. Confederacy, he took his Confederate commission and ended up as the
They have the Confederate flag flying. I've been toe of race there. I didn't feel comfortable seeing that flag flown around. Uh, i'll never go to a race because the Confederate flag is there, you know, reading all those comments, it was just like, Okay, if I could get rid of the flag, then that will get more people to come. E can speak about the flag and raise awareness on it. Then that will, you know, kind of
I started in this little redneck town, population 5,000. Confederate flags everywhere, very racist, very violent, a lot of domestic abuse. And one of the first stories I covered was a scary one about a man who was accused of killing a little girl and disappearing her body.
standing, they have to give you their flag, what's called the colors for their unit and their weapons. You have to take them. Confederate unit that's coming up a day of ignominy, as far as they're concerned. Chamberlain, without permission, but that
government, the US government never forced people into uniform before the Civil War. The Confederates did it first. They did it in the spring of 1862. They passed a national graduated income tax. And when taxing didn't work, when their money became so devalued, they then passed what they called the tax in kind. They would take a percentage of your crop. They allowed the government to
... that's probably plenty of time to finish this war. Well, a year goes by and a significant percentage of the Confederate men under arms are due to get out. So what the Confederate Congress did was pass conscription. We're gonna put every- make everybody liable to three-year service.
of the founding really says no. And the Reconstruction Congress then, as I said, wipes out the governments in 10 of those former Confederate states. They put the South under military control. And then they basically make new states.
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So the real subject is the teacher. The confederate is the student, pupil. And teacher gives something to learn.
It was 46/44 in favor of Bush. The confederate then says to the subject, "come on, over here." "come over here I want to talk to you." And the first thing we measure is how close the subject will stand to the confederate.
- Quick pause for a bathroom break if it's okay. third-ranking officer in Confederate service, and he makes an easy transition to A Confederate loyalty. I think it's his loyalty to Virginia
- Quick pause for a bathroom break if it's okay. in the Confederacy from their point of view. And Lincoln, who's not conceding the right of states to secede. They're, they're temporarily out
a very tough situation and Infantino has to be eyeballed um here. And if UEFA and the other um confederations go sort of soft now, then you can see the the opposition sort of just drifting away and uh you know people get bored about these issues. It'll it'll lose its
Uh there are some big moments coming up because obviously in the last week we had that open letter to the football family from those three confederations who have come out against Gianni Infantino. That is Asia, North Central America, the Caribbean, and UEFA who are
bumps into the participant as they're walking to the lab. And the confederate spills a bunch of papers, and the participant picks them up, and they give them a cup of coffee. It's either a hot cup of coffee, or it is a cold cup of coffee.
They're not a welcoming sport. They're not a diverse sport. They have the Confederate flag flying. I've been toe of race there. I didn't feel comfortable seeing that flag flown around. Uh, i'll never go to a race because the Confederate flag is there, you know, reading all those comments, it was just like, Okay, if I could get rid of the flag, then that will get
is part of our heritage. It is part of, um, kind of our our national identity. And for many white Southerners, the Confederate flag is a swell. Here's the problem. You wanna fly a Confederate flag in your house, by all means do whatever the hell you want to. But in public spaces, you don't have a right to that heritage in public spaces. Because, actually, when it comes to the Confederate flag, it's the heritage of a traitorous
She asked me if I would walk down the aisle rather than ask one of their trusted Klan members, one of the guys coming down the stairs with the Confederate flag poles. I said, yeah, I'll walk you down the aisle, sure.
It was called King Philip's War. about the Powhatan Confederacy?
And then this confederate said, green.
to the Confederacy. How does a black man in 1870-- how do you do that?
And the research confederate had about 15 people standing around him.
to teach things like Confederate history, which would make a lot of the challenges that we're working through now, related to the Black Lives Matter stuff, more complicated.
He stays in the Confederation Congress in the 1780s.
And "Never Surrender: Confederate memory and conservativism in the South Carolina upcountry" which was the 2004 winner of the George C. Rogers Award for best book on South Carolina history.
former cradle of the Confederacy in 2010 he and that part of that plan was getting on Barack Obama's coattails if
examples like um the confederate general
Fort Monroe not to far from Norfolk, Virginia, and to march up then, still called the Peninsula to attack Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy. The premise, a little bit false, but accepted at the time is that if you could capture Jefferson Davis, President of the breakaway Confederate States of America and take over his White House in Richmond, Virginia, maybe capture a good bit
of the Confederacy. The premise, a little bit false, but accepted at the time is that if you could capture Jefferson Davis, President of the breakaway Confederate States of America and take over his White House in Richmond, Virginia, maybe capture a good bit of the defending forces, that could end the Civil War.
It's-- I think, for them, it might have been a little bit easier to free enslaved people who don't live among you than it... In the United States, the ante is up for the Confederacy because they, the enslaved people lived here, and I think they were, a lot of them were afraid of them and what would happen if they weren't enslaved anymore. The war goes from... It doesn't begin as a war to end slavery. There's a major shift in the war,
- And of course, the beautiful, dark, ironic hypocrisy was illustrated by the Confederacy when they were the first to pass a national draft in American history. - Like, irony is wonderful- ... in history. Another thing that I love to teach is that the most intrusive central government in American
- Quick pause for a bathroom break if it's okay. Montgomery as the capital of the Confederacy.
Independence and yeah, right, that creates a nation sort of it creates 13 independent states and then they form a confederation with the Articles of Confederation and then they form a more perfect union with the Constitution that's written in 1787.
Wallace is known for breaking down barriers, but his impact goes far beyond the racetrack. Earlier this year, he used his platform to support black lives matter and successfully challenged NASCAR to ban the Confederate flag from its tracks, earning him a reputation as a leader in the fight for racial justice. Baba, thank you so much for being here. Absolutely. Thank you for having me. Yeah. So we talked about this a little bit in our intro, but just so the entire world
and and so it's just better for me to to not say anything at all. Yeah, so you mentioned earlier. I think that you've spoken out about how initially you weren't bothered by the Confederate flag, but you took kind of listen and educate yourself and your views changed about that. Um it may be the same answer around. The amount are very video going viral. And then George Floyd and Briana Taylor amongst so many others.
because the Wampanoags had just suffered mightily in the smallpox epidemic. And the surrounding tribes and confederacies smelled their weakness, and so the Wampanoags needed allies. And the Pilgrims could be very formidable allies, and so they did.
One of them was a confederate, an associate of the researcher, because if you're ever in a experiment, you'll know that it's never what they tell you.
to express their interest in a confederation, or is it better just that they each have their own, essentially, foreign policy?
on his Facebook page with a Confederate flag uh the Confederate flag has flown
Each starts with 15 volts, and each switch increases by 15 volts. The problem is that the confederate starts to make mistakes, starts to dumb down, gets shocked more and more. And there's a point at which the confederate begins to scream and yell, I've got a heart condition.
This one was used by the Confederate Army.
It was 46/44 in favor of Bush. Or ten centimeters shorter than the confederate.
who was a general in the Confederacy from Wilmington, North Carolina. And the guy's name was Archibald MacRae. And on November 3 of 1855, a story appeared in the New York
He was arrested with his confederate for feeding wildlife in a National Park without a permit.
or will it be a loose Confederation what is the role of Iran which is extremely influential inside Iraq and I would say is the biggest
Kilpatrick uh wheeler and the Confederate Army