This is my black family — from Loudoun County, Virginia. Seated in the center is my great grandmother, Amelia Weaver Roberts, who was enslaved and emancipated as a result of the Union victory in the Civil War. She sits in front of a portrait of her husband, Presley Roberts who had also been a slave. With her are her children. I have written about them here before, in They were slaves in Virginia
This is my white great grandfather James Bratt (with his wife, Nettie Hale Bratt) —
who fought fought for the Union. He can be found on the roster of the Wisconsin Volunteers: War of the Rebellion. He enlisted as a private on September 15, 1861 in the 6th Light Artillery Regiment. He returned home, victorious — and ill.
You all know what the racist “League of the South” movement is. It isn’t fueled by Democrats.
The strongest civil rights movement we have today is centered in North Carolina — and it is a fusion movement — a third reconstruction. Moral Mondays.
In every “red state” there are Democrats who are fighting voter suppression, gerrymandering and re-districting. Many Democrats are hard at work trying to turn those states purple, then blue.
In the heat of the primary competition here on Daily Kos — the last thing I want to read are aspersions that “Confederate states” don’t count.
We should be celebrating every single person who is voting for Democrats.