And to repeat — because apparently we have to repeat it — when you celebrate the Confederacy, you’re celebrating people who waged war against the United States of America so they could keep slavery in place.

Source: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/youngkin-gop-confederate-memorial-arlington-cemetery-monument-rcna130428

Chief Leonard Standingontheroad was officially sworn in as the Grand Chief of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations in a ceremony Friday Jan.

Source: https://www.lacombeexpress.com/news/confederacy-of-treaty-six-first-nations-announces-new-grand-chief-2/

Edward Douglass White fought for the Confederacy and took up arms in a violent insurrection against Reconstruction.

Source: https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/06/ben-lowenthal-hawaii-in-the-1940s-had-its-share-of-state-sanctioned-racism/

He achieved his political rise in South Carolina, once the cradle of the Confederacy.

Source: https://wtop.com/national/2023/09/tim-scott-is-the-top-black-republican-in-the-gop-presidential-primary-heres-how-he-discusses-race/

In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln ordered plans for a relief expedition to sail to South Carolina’s Fort Sumter, which was still in the hands of Union forces despite repeated demands by the Confederacy that it be turned over.

Source: https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/archives/today-in-history-mar-29/collection_3b85e4f0-7bc9-5544-bbc9-fd644ef0201d.html

Local residents in Alexandria, Virginia are pushing the local governmenthonoring the leaders of the Confederacy.

Source: https://jalopnik.com/a-virginia-city-is-dragging-its-feet-renaming-confedera-1850549240

The Confederacy was outmanned and outgunned by their Union adversaries throughout the war.

Source: https://247wallst.com/special-report/2023/08/24/the-20-greatest-armies-of-the-civil-war/

The entire Blackfoot Confederacy community will be pleased to see it return home.”

Source: https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/sacred-headdress-displayed-exeter-90-8879597