Dark Red OwlMay 30, 2023
Qasim Rashid, Esq.

I wish schools taught this.

Memorial Day began in 1865 when 10,000 former enslaved & a few white missionaries honored fallen Union soldiers.

It was founded in memory of those who gave their life to end white supremacy terror, slavery, & human trafficking
https://www.history.com/news/memorial-day-civil-war-slavery-charleston

One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed African Americans

At the close of the Civil War, people recently freed from slavery in Charleston honored fallen Union soldiers.

HISTORY
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Show threadBarbaraKB in MichiganMay 29, 2023
@QasimRashid my school did. of course, Iโ€™m also from a town that erected the Underground Railroad Museum. :)
Show threadMiriam DunnMay 30, 2023

@barbarakb

Did your school also teach you about the Queer people that fought for America? We will fight again. This time against corporate fascism. Places like #target need to be told, NO. We will not tolerate #homophobia or #transphobia or #hate

Show thread๐Ÿ„๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿšฒ๐Ÿฅ“๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿด๐Ÿ›ป๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธMay 29, 2023
@QasimRashid I reposted this on TruthSocial, The MAGAts are gonna be SO PISSED!
Show threadSallyBlackMay 29, 2023

@schizanon @QasimRashid

๐Ÿ˜ˆ๐Ÿ˜ˆ๐Ÿ˜ˆ๐Ÿ˜ˆ๐Ÿ˜ˆ๐Ÿคฃ

Show threadArchieMay 29, 2023
@QasimRashid It didn't work did it!
Show threadLotโดโนMay 29, 2023
@QasimRashid That's why the South didn't honor it until fairly recently, right?
Show threadolifesMay 29, 2023
@QasimRashid
Show threadPhillip James GlasgowMay 29, 2023
For further reading on this fascinating subject try: https://mastodon.social/@Deglassco/110452545804626834
Show threadskiloMay 30, 2023
@QasimRashid learn sumtin new evry day
Show threadCoyotyMay 30, 2023
@pappyscott @QasimRashid In this case, something old.
Show threadskiloMay 30, 2023
@coyoty @QasimRashid ๐Ÿ™ƒ
Show threadJeremy ๏ฃฟMay 30, 2023
@QasimRashid Now itโ€™s yet another reason to drink and party.
Show thread๐ŸŒป Welcome Back ๐ŸŒปMay 30, 2023
@jeremydebose @QasimRashid And shop the sales.
Show threadneutrino78xMay 30, 2023

@jeremydebose @QasimRashid

"Now itโ€™s yet another reason to drink and party."

It's supposed to be somber reflection.

Drink and party = 4th of July.

Memorial Day is about the people who didn't make it back.

Show threadJeremy ๏ฃฟMay 30, 2023
@neutrino78x @QasimRashid I know. Thatโ€™s why I said โ€œyet another reasonโ€ฆโ€ to say people donโ€™t care what holidays mean, theyโ€™re reasons to party now.
Show threadAgoraMay 30, 2023
@neutrino78x @jeremydebose @QasimRashid on July 4, I always read Frederick Douglass poem out loud to my kids.
Thatโ€™s the only special 4th July activity in our house.
Show threadRaccoon ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ May 30, 2023

@QasimRashid
For a few years now, I've found it pertinent to point out that the vast majority of the Confederate soldiers were tricked into, or even forced to fight at gunpoint. The Confederacy was a feudal oligarchy, murdering its own people, most of whom lacked voting rights and even basic freedoms.

By the end of the Civil War, Confederate morale was flatlined from sheer dissilusionment. Some even turned their guns on the aristocrats.

Even they were victims, saved by the Union army.

Show thread๐ŸŒป Welcome Back ๐ŸŒปMay 30, 2023

@raccoon @QasimRashid Some were hung for refusing to fight or shot when they tried to leave the south and join the north.

German immigrants in Texas, for example:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nueces_massacre

Nueces massacre - Wikipedia

Show threadRaccoon ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ May 30, 2023

@Scotter @QasimRashid
I'm actually visiting my family in DFW right now, near where the Quakertown massacre happened.

It is really vastly understated by historical revisionists just how many people the Confederacy murdered as a simple consequence of its very existence.

People try to talk about it like it's this abstract oppositional government thing, but in reality, it is one of the greatest crimes ever perpetuated against the American people.

Show threadSam AdamsMay 30, 2023
@raccoon @QasimRashid Two of my ancestors joined the Confederate Army, collected an enlistment bonus, and then jumped from the moving train and joined the Union Army. While there are a lot of Confederate soldiers in my lineage, there are many Union soldiers as well. But make no mistake, many Confederates fought for the South because they had been taught their entire lives that Blacks were inferior. Many Union soldiers felt the same, but fought to save the Union.
Show threadneutrino78xMay 30, 2023

@QasimRashid

What makes you think schools don't teach it? It might be true that public schools in the south don't. But the south is not the whole of the USA. ๐Ÿ˜€

Show threadTina and Tony SohlMay 30, 2023
@QasimRashid I wish this too. Thanks for posting.
Show threadMcNullaMay 30, 2023
@QasimRashid
We donโ€™t want people to feel bad for who they are (unless they arenโ€™t descendants of cruel slave owners).
Show threadMiriam DunnMay 30, 2023

@QasimRashid @barbarakb @schizanon @toastygirl
@Archie8 @12thRITS @Olifes @MuddyMagee @[email protected] @neutrino78x @pappyscott @coyoty
@jeremydebose @Scotter @raccoon @[email protected] @clayrivers @[email protected] @mcnulla

Thank you Qasim for supporting the movement against corporate fascism. Lest not forget all the queer and lgbtqi+ folk that won all the battles.

Show threadPeteMay 30, 2023

@QasimRashid

That old-time flag salute always looks weird.

This photo must be post 1892 and pre-1942.

Show threadatticus1956May 30, 2023
@QasimRashid
I went to high school in the early 60s in STL & my history teacher taught this as the true beginning of Remembrance Day.
PS - I miss the Vet organizations giving out lapel poppies for donations. They used to be on all street corners & Memorial Day events.
Show threadteddyMay 30, 2023
@QasimRashid they taught us it was a northern holiday and we didn't get the day off school. This explains that a lot better
Show threadCaledonMay 30, 2023
@QasimRashid problem is white supremacy, slavery, and human trafficking never actually ended in the United States.
Show threadLisa joyAug 5, 2023
@QasimRashid While we watch Confederate states move farther & farther away from teaching actual US history, what we should be doing is fighting to unwhite washing the history we had been teaching. In order to move forward as a nation we must face our past, especially the ugly parts.