re: #180 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

General George Henry Thomas, by the way, was born in Virginia but fought for the Union.

And if it is left up to people like governors Abbot and DeSantis, US schoolchildren will just skip the era between the end of the Civil War and Martin Luther King, and learn nothing about Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Sundown Laws, the Green Book or Redlining.

Yep — I made that very point — that Thomas was a slaveholding Virginian but he wasn’t a traitor and fought for the Union. When sepsis infects a limb, if you don’t eliminate it immediately, it gradually infects the entire body and kills it. That’s what happened to the toxic attitudes of the South — they spread and are poisoning our entire nation.