Anonymous #2 4w

especially since he served the union, it would seem right that it was taken while he was serving

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Anonymous #1 4w

It’s even sadder with the perspective of just how recent it was too. This photo is of the last living Civil War veteran, Confederate (sorry) Bill Lundy, posing with a fighter jer in 1955. Survivors of slavery were around to speak to our grandparents and even the two most recent presidents. Many slaves freed during the Civil War straight up returned to the plantations they were forced to work on because they had nowhere else to go.

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Anonymous #3 4w

If you mean the order of its removal or where it was, Fort Pulaski National Monument and the National Park Service. If you mean the backstory, the Smithsonian and the National Portrait Gallery. You cannot be this slow

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Anonymous #2 4w

He was enslaved before the Civil War. After it ended, he helped document the horror that had just been banned

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Anonymous #3 4w

Whitehouse.gov

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Anonymous #2 4w

Yeah that was my mistake. It was during the civil war and became used by a bunch of abolitionists

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Anonymous #5 4w

Yup! The civil war was only 160 years ago. Our grandparent’s grandparents were in many cases civil war veterans. And people want to act like slavery is this ancient thing We STILL to this day have slavery in the USA for fucks sake. There are people’s grandparents who were segregationist protesters in the 1960’s. Racism is not far removed at all, it is an ongoing problem

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Anonymous #5 4w

What the actual fuck? This is how you react to people asking for a source? So you want them to just blindly believe everything someone post on fucking yikyak?

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Anonymous #8 4w

Of course he should ask for the source! This is something that can completely change someone’s political viewpoint. I’m going to read that right now because if this is true, I may have to alter my political world view.

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Anonymous #5 4w

(also not to be that person but Lundy was a massive liar and there’s no evidence beyond his word that he served. The last known vet was Albert Woolson, who was a Union vet)

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Anonymous #8 4w

I would consider this comparable to the destruction of confederate statues. Neither one was good.

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Anonymous #8 4w

Don’t look up when those confederate statues were actually put up and for what reason, worst mistake of my life

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Anonymous #8 4w

It is never good to destroy history

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Anonymous #8 4w

Also how is this narrative even a dividing thing for the nation? All it is doing is presenting to people history. This is the reality of what happened, here’s a photograph to showcase specifically that, and the rest is up to you. There’s no sign saying anything to promote racial division

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 4w

Not to mention the prison system, on the topic of slavery still existing

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Anonymous inphochewated 4w

Oh dw that’s what I was referring to. Prison labor is slave labor. This is why you have instances of private prisons exploiting tf out of their prisoners

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Anonymous just_peachy_ 4w

Ah I didn’t know if you meant some other example (as I’m CERTAIN there are more 😭)

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Anonymous inphochewated 4w

Oh totally, and dw you’re all good

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Anonymous #8 4w

So the removal of our history is good because no one wants to remember how we murdered and enslaved hundreds of thousands of people? Destroying and erasing history is a sign of an authoritarian government. Erasing our history is going to make things worse

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Anonymous #11 4w

You know it’s historical fact about the part flip and that doesn’t relate to anything that has been said

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Anonymous #12 4w

Literally not false, his admin and himself are working on executive orders and legislation to do this. He literally posted about it on his Twitter, and the White House’s. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but he’s been doing things that are out of his legislation since the first day in office.

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Anonymous #7 4w

Show me exactly where he referenced this photo, I’ll wait. Also, for not federal institutions he can insist all he wants but they can ignore him and there’s nothing he can do about it.

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Anonymous #12 4w

Yes, because that’s what has happened previously, not like he will fire them for ignoring him. You’re living in a delusional society where he follows rules and regulation. He has fired hundreds of people illegally without reason for ignoring him. He has created legislation time and time again that is out of his jurisdiction yet he gets away with it. Wake up and step off of his dick.

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Anonymous #7 4w

He doesn’t have the ability to fire staff from non federal and private institutions you idiot. There’s nothing he can do about it. He can insist all he wants but there’s nothing he can do. Yes, he’s fired many people who are employed by federal government institutions. Also, you have yet to provide the evidence that he referenced this photo specifically

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Anonymous #12 4w

He might not have the authority yet he has done a time and time again. Because he doesn’t listen to the checks and balances. And clearly no one else cares enough to stop him.

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Anonymous #7 4w

And show me what legislation or executive order has been passed that gives the president the ability to fire people from private institutions? I’ll wait. Also, even if that were to happen, it would be struck down by the SCOTUS

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Anonymous #12 4w

Hmm well the first one is deporting people without due process and allowing ice to run rampant and the second off the top of my head is deploying the national guard on United States citizens, even without the approval from the local governor.

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Anonymous #12 4w

Another is him allowing Elon Musk to lay off hundreds of people, even though neither of them had that authority

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Anonymous #12 4w

One quick Google search will show every single executive order that he had made that he legally does not have the jurisdiction to make. It’s been dozens.

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Anonymous #12 4w

But you don’t believe in facts you only believe in your leader because you believe Trump is a god. It’s not normal for a government to zip tie babies hands behind their back.

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Anonymous #12 4w

It is not normal for a government to hold a child hostage as an attempt to get the father outside of the house. It is not normal for a government to use It’s gestapo to detain representatives.

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Anonymous #7 4w

I don’t believe Trump is a god. Also, nice red herring arguments. I asked for the evidence of the executive order or legislation that’s allowed him to fire people from private institutions. You have yet to provide such evidence and the burden of proof is on you

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Anonymous #5 4w

Noteworthy: Apparently Bill “Uncle Bill” Lundy may not have actually been a veteran. His story is that he joined at 16, but according to the 1860 Census data he would’ve been born in 1959 (rather than the 1848 he claims). Still, the last surviving freed people lived into the 1970s.

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Anonymous #8 4w

Thin veil to discredit. If you can scroll yikyak, you can look up a source. The image is famous and in history textbooks, the backstory is on multiple government websites, and the ongoing story of its removal is widespread news. Plus, if you’re not gonna trust a yikyak post without a source, what makes you think you’d trust a response to your inquiry into the source? Use Google, lay off the paste eating.

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Anonymous #11 4w

1) not a democrat 2) both parties are in favor of modern day slavery 3) mf never heard of the southern strategy

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Anonymous #7 4w

There was no “party flip.” The Democrats went from mostly pro segregation in the 1920s to mostly pro integration in the 1960s, with their platform starting to flip in favor of integration in the 1930s. The Republicans went from non-religious in the 1960s and earlier to religious in the 1970s onward, which is why the Republicans become popular in the religious south during that time

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Anonymous #12 4w

Okay so you’re ignoring historical fact. Which doesn’t even fucking matter right now. Your response to “Trump is a racist piece of shit erasing our history of slavery” is “bu-bu-but the democrats!!!”

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Anonymous #12 4w

You’re….you’re describing the party switch my guy. That’s how it happened. Dems went from being the Conservative Party to the progressive party

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Anonymous #12 4w

It’s odd that democrat are the “party of slavery” yet it’s republicans that are racist, supporting this, and waving the confederate flag

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Anonymous #5 4w

Yeah I mentioned a bit further up in the comment chain that Albert Woolson is the last confirmed vet from that time. Albeit he never saw action because by the time he enlisted it was the tail end of the war

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Anonymous #12 4w

You literally just described the switch 💀 we cannot be serious bro “hmmm there was no party flip but here’s me describing how the political parties switched ideals!” Like what 😭

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Anonymous #8 4w

You are correct! The burden of proof is on the person making the claim. Not that hard to understand

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Anonymous #4 4w

Pretty sure all the people getting riled up took the request for a source as an implicit “I don’t believe in the horrors of slavery or the fact that Trump is out of line”. The commenter just wanted a source. But that is likely how it was received

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Anonymous #6 4w

Low-key irks me when mfs just ask for a source and DIE for it like gang this is how you make niggas not wanna see things the way you do 🤦🏾‍♂️

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Anonymous inphochewated 4w

How dare someone ask for a source to ensure claims are valid and not randomly made up 🙄 if you don’t have a source/evidence then you shouldn’t be spewing it

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Anonymous #12 4w

I get asking for a source for seemingly made up claims or things to be scrutinized. However, asking for a source to either a photo that is in history textbooks or a story that has been in headlines for 3 weeks (i wouldn’t know since #3 has contributed nothing since asking for a source) is just ignorance. It’s not even an “educate me, I haven’t heard of this” thing, it’s just a stupid request typed into a machine that can give him exactly what he’s looking for.

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Anonymous #5 4w

Asking for a source for the actual photo or for the claim that it’s being removed?

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Anonymous #12 4w

THREE WORDS is all it took to get a source on the current situation from Associated Press, the US House Committee for Natural Resources, and National Public Radio.

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Anonymous #5 4w

I wasn’t the one who asked for a source on this, I’m talking about the importance of citing sources. Also there’s burden of proof so the person making the claim has to provide the evidence

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Anonymous #12 4w

#3 HASNT SPECIFIED. WE DONT KNOW BECAUSE HE JUST ASKED FOR A GENERAL SOURCE AND NOTHING ELSE. Burden of proof means nothing for common knowledge and doesn’t need a source/citation. I could tell you that three billionaires died after a submarine imploded during a voyage to the Titanic and wouldn’t need a source because it’s common knowledge over 2 years later

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Anonymous #5 4w

Exactly, for common knowledge, not for breaking news or something that is being debated

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