Volume 264 | No. 21

Dear Editor, Delighted to read the references to Confederate General A.P. Hill in the latest front page Rant. Living within spitting distance of the general’s monument/grave, I thought your readers might enjoy a bit more about his postmortem adventures and how he manages, even in death and to this day, to make his presence felt. Fatally shot in battle less than two weeks before hostilities ended at Appomattox, he was hastily buried in Chesterfield County, then two years later dug up and reinterred in Hollywood Cemetery, in a spot years later deemed unsuitable for one of his stature. In the early 1890’s, as the whitewashing …

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To the Editor: [Note: Mr. Ewing’s statistics have, in the past, proven to be dubious. He throws them around with such abandon that fact-checking them all is impractical. We therefore issue this blanket warning: caveat lector. – The Ed.] The Democrat Party’s greatest fraud is that it cares about Black people. Using lies, virtue signaling, alarmist charges like “white supremacy” and “institutional racism,” and media support, Democrats blame others for the enormous harm done to Blacks by the Democrat [sic] Party’s own actions, policies, and laws. President Johnson’s Great Society still causes enormous suffering due to the resulting increase from 24 percent to 75 percent …

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They have Black people, and white poor people, and red poor people, and Puerto Rican poor people, and Latin American poor people, poor people of all descent. They have them caught up in their movements based on racism. The Black Panther Party stood up and said, ‘We don’t care what anybody says. We don’t think you fight fire with fire best; we think you fight fire with water best. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with Black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism. We’ve stood …

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