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To Thomas Jefferson, December 16, 1788

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@officialalamo = #FakeNews Actual history = https

@officialalamo = #FakeNews

Actual history = https://www.amazon.com/Forget-Alamo-Rise-Fall-American/dp/1984880098/

I’d like to report an ongoing hate crime located

I’d like to report an ongoing hate crime located at the Texas State Capitol, @texasgov @texas_dps @texas_tribune

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars

“Admitting that government is a contrivance of h

“Admitting that government is a contrivance of human wisdom, it must necessarily follow, that hereditary succession, and hereditary rights (as they are called,) can make no part of it, because it is impossible to make wisdom hereditary; and on the other hand, that cannot be a wise contrivance, which in its operation may commit the government of a nation to the wisdom of an idiot.”
—Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Part 1, 1791

“In 1949, DC (National Comics) produced this sam

“In 1949, DC (National Comics) produced this same image and text originally for a 12 x 18” brown paper school book cover that was distributed to schools by the Institute for American Democracy, an offshoot of the Anti-Defamation League.”

https://www.dc.com/blog/2017/08/25/superman-a-classic-message-restored

“We have distressing accounts here from St. Dom

“We have distressing accounts here from St. Domingo [Haiti]. It is the natural consequence of Slavery and must be expected every where. The Negroes are enraged at the opposition made to their relief and are determined, if not to relieve themselves, to punish their enemies.”

—Thomas Paine, 1791

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