“I’ve thought increasingly about my great-grandfather and his ignoble legacy as I’ve settled into life in #Texas, where the Confederate cause is memorialized on statues, flags, and street signs. ...”

In our magazine, Editor-in-Chief nostr:npub132yqqe7csk4cvc8klccskqaas6kpy2w2zt64csl5yj0vjcpacxrq7aakgs confronts the #racism in his family tree, and reflects on how it filters his view of our state's monuments to a white supremacist past: https://www.texasobserver.org/chinese-immigrants-confederate-monuments-racism-history/

#history #politics #WhiteSupremacy #Fascism #extremism #GOP #USpol #CivilWar #Newstodon

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