Trump's NEFARIOUS plan for the ELECTIONS

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qzdMDDP0D-0

 

Part 5 1860 or 2026: Truly Making America Great Again #historyshorts

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vR56Je6j2O8

The South lost the Civil War, but its "narrative" won: civil rights activist

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EWMt1npkrS0

 

History Minute (068): What to do with the land confiscated from Confederate plantations?

As Zinn explains, it was apparent to many that after the Civil War, freed enslaved people would need land. They would need to work their own land rather than that of other people in order to live independently and have status in society. 

One Black person in 1863 wrote that “if the strict law of right and justice is to be observed, the country around me is the entailed inheritance of the Americans of African descent, purchased by the invaluable labor of our ancestors, through a life of tears and groans, under the lash and yoke of tyranny.”

Instead, however, the plantations that were abandoned during the Civil War were leased to the people who used to plant them, and to white men of the North. Rather than being landowners, many found themselves not much better off,  as reported in a Black-owned newspaper that "The slaves were made serfs and chained to the soil. . . . Such was the boasted freedom acquired by the colored man at the hands of the Yankee."

Lincoln and the Congress compounded this problem with their policy that land that had been confiscated under the Confiscation Act of July 1862 would be returned to the heirs of the Confederate owners to compensate them for their financial loss. In response, a Black physician spoke at a meeting in Boston and said: "Why talk about compensating masters? Compensate them for what? What do you owe them? What does the slave owe them? What does society owe them? Compensate the master? . . . It is the slave who ought to be compensated. The property of the South is by right the property of the slave. . . ."

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A People's History of the United States 

Howard Zinn 

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History Minute (060): Black women were also heroes in the Civil War.

Zinn observes the following:

Black women aided in the war.

• Sojourner Truth, an ex-slave activist in the women’s rights movement, and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, recruited black troops for the Union army. 
• Harriet Tubman led black and white troops in raids on plantation, one of which freed 750 enslaved persons. 
• Black women moved with their soldier husbands, and they and their children endured many of the same hardships of war as the soldiers themselves did.

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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
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History Minute (064): More about slaves fighting slavery.

Quoting Zinn: 

"Robert Smalls (later a South Carolina Congressman) and other blacks took over a steamship, The Planter, and sailed it past the Confederate guns to deliver it to the Union navy."

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A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

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A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present, Revised and Updated Edition bookshop.org

 

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History Minute (067): The South considered enlisting Black soldiers.

As relayed by Zinn, the South did debate using freed slaves as soldiers, especially late in the war when the Confederacy became more desperate, and many came to think of the slaves as an obstacle to winning -- especially, as we reported in earlier History Minute posts, that large numbers of enslaved people were deserting their plantations and going to fight for the North. Some Southern leaders proposed freeing slaves and then enlisting them.  

However, attitudes of White Supremacy prevailed, and opponents argued that "If slaves would make good soldiers, our whole theory of slavery is wrong." That is because slavery was justified for Christians as a means of bringing salvation and civilization to savages; if Black men were capable of serving in the military, how could slavery be justified? And how could the Southern rebellion be justified?

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A People's History of the United States 

Howard Zinn 

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History Minute (065): Black soldiers were vital to the success of the North.

Per Zinn:

• 200,000 blacks fought in the army and navy of the North.
• 38,000 were killed.
• Historian James McPherson observed:  "Without their help, the North could not have won the war as soon as it did, and perhaps it could not have won at all."

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A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

History Minute (066): Treatment of Black Soldiers in the North's army during the Civil War

Quoting Zinn:

What happened to blacks in the Union army and in the northern cities during the war gave some hint of how limited the emancipation would be, even with full victory over the Confederacy. Off-duty black soldiers were attacked in northern cities, as in Zanesville, Ohio, in February 1864, where cries were heard to “kill the nigger.” Black soldiers were used for the heaviest and dirtiest work, digging trenches, hauling logs and cannon, loading ammunition, digging wells for white regiments. White privates received $13 a month; Negro privates received $10 a month. 

Late in the war, a black sergeant of the Third South Carolina Volunteers, William Walker, marched his company to his captain’s tent and ordered them to stack arms and resign from the army as a protest against what he considered a breach of contract, because of unequal pay. He was court-martialed and shot for mutiny. Finally, in June 1864, Congress passed a law granting equal pay to Negro soldiers.

Excerpt From A People's History of the United States 

Howard Zinn 

Civil War? The REALITY You NEED to Understand

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Charlie Kirk and the "Righteous" Right - YouTube

Well before a suspect was named and arrested, right-wingers (including President Trump) were blaming The Left and using Charlie Kirk's assassination to excuse a new Civil War against their political opponents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SABeS7sOk48

Anti-Choice Activist Bradley Pierce Is Fine With Causing A Civil War To abolish abortion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8XQeSzeFXw

Man pardoned for Jan. 6 gets life in prison for plotting to incite "civil war”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgEe6VjyI_I

Trump’s Pentagon pick Hegseth wrote of US military taking sides in ‘civil war’ | Trump administration | The Guardian

In one of his five published books he wrote that in the event of a Democratic election victory in the US there would be a "national divorce" in which "The military and police … will be forced to make a choice" and "Yes, there will be some form of civil war." 

Hegseth's 2020 book exhorts conservatives to undertake "an AMERICAN CRUSADE", to "mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist opponents", to "attack first" in response to a left he identifies with "sedition", and he writes that the book "lays out the strategy we must employ in order to defeat America's internal enemies"...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/22/trump-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-book

‘Collapse is how we win’: US far right aims to make gains on election division | US elections 2024 | The Guardian

To them, who wins or loses is less important than the effect: with already two assassination attempts on Donald Trump and both mainstream parties more at rhetorical war than ever before, they see signs of hope the US government is beginning to lose control of the country. 

For example, one popular Telegram account on the fringes of the far right gleefully asked followers in a survey what they think the outcome of the election could be. 

"Trump wins, civil war kicks off" was among the options, followed by "Kamala 'wins,' civil war kicks off".…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/05/far-right-election-trump-harris

Feds see uptick in online chatter among extremists preparing for ‘civil war’ - POLITICO

A Department of Homeland Security report says the discussions are tied to the 2024 election and concerns about immigration...

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/25/domestic-extremism-civil-war-report-00185610

If Trump loses, expect a Republican civil war

"But Trump can never lose! So, if he does, expect a 2020 post-election replay with much ranting, raving and contrived evidence. Team Trump will launch accusations of a corrupt, stolen election, cheating, judicial weaponization, illegal voters, foreign interference and rigged voting machines, resulting in legal challenges perhaps all the way to the Supreme Court. Our enemies will be watching for signs of electoral instability, democratic unrest and perhaps even a national security crisis. 

That aside, a Trump loss inevitably means an internal civil war within the Republican Party. I believe a "war" is inevitable between the all-powerful Trump forces and those who want to move on from the Trump era and win the White House in 2028 without any Trump family members on the ticket…"

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4853672-trump-biden-2024-republican-party/

‘January 6 was just the warm-up’: the film that tracks three Maga extremists storming the Capitol

Michael Premo spent months getting to know, and filming, three Maga insurrectionists who took part in the riots. Why does the documentary-maker now think America is tottering on the brink of civil war?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/27/january-6-maga-extremists-storming-capitol-homegrown

Ohio Republican forced to scramble after ‘civil war’ comments

"I'm afraid if we lose this one, it's going to take a civil war to save the country, and it will be saved," Lang said. "It's the greatest experiment in the history of mankind, and if we come down to a civil war, I'm glad we got people like ... Bikers for Trump on our side."…

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/ohio-republican-forced-scramble-civil-war-comments-rcna163189

School board votes to restore Confederate names to two public schools (The Guardian)

An all-white school board in Virginia has voted to restore the names of Robert E Lee and other Confederate military leaders to two public schools in a backlash to the racial reckoning that followed the police murder of George Floyd...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/virginia-school-board-restore-confederate-names-public-schools