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8: On April 3, 1865, the capital of the Confederate States (the rebel states) during the American Civil War, Richmond, surrendered to Union forces (U.S. troops) after the president of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis, and most of his cabinet escaped from Richmond on April 2, 1865. Richmond is now the capital of the U.S. state of Virginia. The American Civil War was fought from 1861-1865. It was fought between eleven states in the Southern part of the U.S. that wanted to maintain slavery in the U.S. (Confederate States) and the rest of the U.S. (the Union) that was opposed to the furtherance of slavery in the United States. The Confederate States lost the civil war. 9: On April 3, 1944, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in an 8–1 decision that black Americans could not be denied from voting in the Texas Democratic primaries. The Court stated that discrimination against blacks violates the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, that political parties are not private associations, and so they cannot discriminate against people based on race, religion, etc. The case was called Smith v. Allwright, and it overturned a law in the state of Texas at the time that allowed political parties to discriminate against people based on their race. #history #worldhistroy #ushistory #americanhistory #northamerica #globalevents

Mark Robinson: The Controversial Black Republican Rising In this video, we explore the rise of Mark Robinson, North Carolina's lieutenant governor and Republican nominee for governor. Discover his unique position as a Black Republican and the impact of Trump's endorsement on his campaign. Join us for an insightful discussion on race and politics! #MarkRobinson #NorthCarolinaPolitics #RepublicanNominee #TrumpEndorsement #PoliticalRise #BlackRepublican #RaceAndPolitics #GovElection2024 #LtGovernor #PoliticalInsights

#politics #unitedstates Geoff Duncan who served as Georgia's lieutenant governor from 2019-2023 and a former professional baseball player, in this CNN Op-Ed makes a strong case for Nikki Haley’s nomination, despite her South Carolina loss. Duncan, however, is hopeful about the Grand Old Party (GOP) breaking its Donald Trump fever by 2028, even if Haley does not win in 2024, assuming Joe Biden The White House wins reelection. Trump is 2028 would be 81 and Duncan is assuming he would go away into the twilight. The trouble with the United States which the racist Hillary Clinton campaign and Donald Trump wrought on the country beginning 2008 is Barack Obama’s birther controversy. Obama, despite being a Nobel peace prize winner #nobelprize and unlike the reconciliatory leadership of his fellow black Nobel peace laureates Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela, did not let the sleeping dogs lie nor seek reconciliation. He shot back after he left office with Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the patent revisionist historical falsehood of the 1619 Project and we are where we are because of Chapter 1 Republicans and Democrats in Obama’s 2007 book The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream https://a.co/d/i2CrmrF. The boomers beginning with First in His Class: A Biography Of Bill Clinton by David Maraniss(2016-05-03) https://a.co/d/3nVaVd9 comeback kid Bill Clinton in 1992 from Hope, Arkansas and the man seriously confused with his identity Obama in 2008 with his audacity of hope have ruined American life for all by 2024, punctuated by the Iraq mess of George W. Bush with his obdurate establishmentarian swagger, leaving an American future of no hope. Trump may go away into the twilight but the Obamamania v. Trumpism of woke v. anti-woke, which are raking in money for the irresponsible corporate news and social media, will not because United States is gripped by demographic anxiety of the majority white population becoming minority by 2045, with the current minorities constantly squabbling with each other, and the nation’s wealth trickling up to the traditional White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) male establishment at San Francisco’s ultra secretive Bohemian Grove #federalreserve which is America’s Military Industrial Complex (MIC) at the expense of all else. Welcome to America Made Great Again. To learn how a very small minority, less than 10% of today’s 1.5 billion population of India, can set civilizational mores for all of humanity, the Bohemians ought to look to Asian-Indian Brahmins, who have never in the history of civilization been wealthy or seldom bore weapons. Then we can all make America and the world great, for it was never great. I will personally then initiate the Bohemians into the Brahminism they have always longed for from the British Monarchy to America’s.

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Today, CRG had the incredible opportunity to be at the heart of democracy – the Georgia Capitol. We sat in on the House of Representatives floor session and engaged in insightful discussions at the Public Safety and Homeland Security committee meetings. 🏛️✨ Our presence matters, and as young Black folx, we are not just the future, but active contributors to shaping it. Let's continue to be the voices that drive positive change! 🙌🏽🔗 #GeorgiaLegislature #CivicEngagement #YoungLeaders #FutureLeaders #BeTheChange"

During #BlackHistoryMonth, please take some time to consider the contributions that Blacks have made to history, politics and communication. Learn more from APU's Dr. Kevin Harris: https://ow.ly/UoUU30sA7I8

Almost all presidents of the United States have been most deferential to the founding leader who could have acted as a ruler had he chosen to. What was the familiar system of government in the earliest days was the all powerful king of England: a law of one. General Washington earned esteem in leading the armies and great praise as president. All after him but FDR limited themselves to just two terms: and FDR was needed to keep the allies together through the continuing WWII. I believed the 45th president had a chance to break ground in the Washington beaurocraocy with his 2016 win as he campaigned on that. I was thusly hopeful. The record however has many unbelievable errors in judgement including the placing of personal interest ahead of national public service and intrusions into the other two branches of government -- independent branches! By the middle of his term I found myself including 45 on the list of types of presidents George Washington feared. For me it's our free society and business friendly system that allowed citizen Donald Trump to turn a large inheritance into a fortune while looking his nose down on the military guarantors of his lifetime of freedom. That is completely his right. Have we failed to inspire our best to state and national public service? We seem to lack candidates who we truly admire in this era. I'm not asking for Jack Kennedy. I'm expecting those asking for my vote not to accept the shoving aside of longtime Senate Majority Leader Mitch, not to accept the intimidation of our military through 45's hand picked Joint Chiefs Cabinet member's humiliation and firings for unjust cause and not to have accepted the toppling of the GOP. That shouldn't be too much. Admiral Ron Scott SOCOM, JCS GHW Bush White House - Trump was more than willing to turn the American military against its own people. In 2020, for instance, he wanted the military to attack protesters near the White House. “Beat the fuck out of them,” the president told the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley. “Just shoot them.” Both Milley and Defense Secretary Mark Esper (a former military officer himself) talked their boss out of opening fire on American citizens. [From the November 2023 issue: How Mark Milley held the line] Senior officers during Trump’s term chose loyalty to the Constitution over loyalty to Donald Trump and remained true to Washington’s legacy. Such principles baffle Trump—all principles seem to baffle Trump, and he especially does not understand patriotism or self-sacrifice. He is, after all, the commander in chief who stood in Arlington National Cemetery, looked around at the honored dead in one of the country’s most sacred places, and said: “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?” - Read "Donald Trump Is the Tyrant George Washington Feared" on SmartNews: https://lnkd.in/ePD8kPCX

Adams and Jefferson: A Revolutionary Dialogue - OA PDF: https://lnkd.in/g7guRd4G Adams and Jefferson: A Revolutionary Dialogue documents the public lives and personal friendship of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, from their first meeting as delegates to the Second Continental Congress to their deaths on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This study takes a look at some of the famous correspondence between the two statesmen who devoted their lives to a new chapter of freedom and self-government. Peterson draws an extended parallel between the backgrounds, experiences, personalities, and intellectual styles of Adams and Jefferson and examines their work in the achievement of independence and the design of new governments for Massachusetts and Virginia. While Adams and Jefferson had much in common, their ideas of human nature, history, society, and government included many differences that would reveal themselves in the course of time. Merrill D. Peterson looks at Adams and Jefferson's relationship across their lives, including their disputes in the midst of the coming French Revolution, their excitement for the establishment of a new American government under the Constitution, their contest for the presidency in 1796, and their eventual reconciliation. #JohnAdams #ThomasJefferson #AmericanRevolution #FoundingFathers #EarlyRepublic #Federalists #DemocraticRepublicans #Politics #PoliticalFriendships