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White Man Wants School Board To Honor 'Black Confederate History' Icon Hulk Lawyer, But There's No Such Person
A white man who spoke at the Clark County School Board recently wanted to take a moment to acknowledge a Black Confederate figure; aside from Marvel Comics, there is no Hulk Lawyer.
newsone.com
"A man stepped up to the podium at a recent Clark County School Board meeting, claiming he was there to speak about “Black Confederate” history. The shenanigans don’t stop in February. In some ways, it seems like they get worse. Over the past year, the country has been plagued with poorly informed parents claiming to advocate for transparency and history but not seeming to understand the meaning of either word. According to civil war historian Kevin Levin, it is more likely that the person mentioned was Holt Collier.
Levin is most known for his book “Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth.” Levin explained the myth of the Black confederate “has nothing to do with diversity or history and everything to do with the continued attempt to drive a wedge between the Confederacy and slavery and protect the ‘honor’ of the common soldier.” He also shared a 1916 pension application for Collier, which indicates he spent the entire war as the “servant” of Lieutenant Tom Hinds. Beyond the lives of enslaved people, children should also learn about Reconstruction and what it offered newly freed Black people and the steps [DEMOCRATS] took to limit progress."
Although it would have been much cooler for kids to learn about Bruce Banner's cousin who was indeed a Hulk lawyer -- it is also important that kids learn about black Confederate heroes like Hulk Lawyer, aka Holt Collier. Kids need to learn about how much better life would have been if the side Holt fought for (The Democrats) -- won. In fact, many say that blacks at that time overwhelmingly favored the Democrats, I mean, the Confederates during the Civil War...and the only reason so many blacks were Republicans; was because of the hand-outs and free stuff they got during Re-Construction..they were basically slaves on the Republican party plantation.
In fact, it was Re-construction that prevented the country from healing and moving forward after the war. Kids need to learn that policies from Re-Construction like the first civil rights act of 1869, the Marxist and racist 15th amendment and so forth...If these policies weren't stopped or significantly watered down; this country would be a lot worse off...Ultimately, kids need to understand who the true good guys and bad guys were in the Civil War; it's wasn't the Confederacy; and if you must admit any bad the Confedracy did; it is crucial to replace the word Confederacy with Democrat....it's more fun that way and it doesn't make today's Neo-Confederates feel uncomfortable.
