2023年10月5日 · I posted here a couple weeks ago about a hotel my SO works at hosting the daughters of the confederacy, getting advice for subtle, harmless amusement the staff could use to get through the events. Quiet shenanigans may or may not have ensued + a couple people on staff (mainly POCs) may or may not have chosen not to work those days.

"To honor and perpetuate the memory and deeds of high principles of the men and women of the Confederacy." And yet they have the gall to say they don't support racial division. In addition, the president general's statement reads about as well written as I expected it to be for such a backwards organization.

2024年1月24日 · United Daughters of the Confederacy could lose Virginia tax exemptions Parrish Simmons, who works in the Richmond Assessor’s Office, wrote in an email that the organization’s Richmond headquarters along Arthur Ashe Boulevard would be subject to the city’s regular tax rate if the bill passes.

2022年9月16日 · One such group is the United Daughters of the Confederacy . Comprised of female descendants of the Southern Gentry and Confederate veterans, the organization helped fund the building of monuments commemorating the Confederates, lobbied legislatures and Congress for the reburial of Confederate dead, and contributed to the historical revisionism ...

2024年5月20日 · Keep in mind that for a long time, the Civil War was referred to as "the war of northern aggression" and that for many decades after the Civil War, there was a group called The Daughters of the Confederacy was going around spreading the idea of the south being this sort of state trying to get freedom from an oppressive government, almost ...

2022年9月30日 · TIL Senator Strom Thurmond had a child out of wedlock named Essie Washington-Williams who was black. She revealed herself as his daughter after his death at the age of 100. She tried to join the 'Daughters of the Confederacy', as she was eligible through her father's ancestry, but she was rejected.

2021年2月19日 · The confederacy was, without question, a group of people with a common identity and common politics who sought to form their own state and government. The fact that people are so hung up on winning culture points by dissing neo confederates online that they reject universal definitions of words is a bit astounding to me.

2020年6月18日 · Even without the daughters of the confederacy referenced, this is absolutely true. Plenty of reporting and direct quotes on the subject. Republican is synonymous with racism in 2020. Don't blame the left for that. You're incomplete knowledge of history, especially the massive shift/reversal of party platforms is pretty blatant.

2021年1月22日 · TIL the United Daughters of the Confederacy was responsible for the construction of many Confederate memorials, with their mission being to "tell of the glorious fight against the greatest odds a nation ever faced, that their hallowed memory should never die."

2021年12月25日 · But as far as organizations go, the democrat party has been historically overtly racist. From being the party of the confederacy, to forming the KKK, to Margaret Sanger and the abortion movement (abortion effects the African American community more than any other race), the democrat party has been the house party of institutional racism.