...eadership’s retaliation may not just extend to the ads. King said he received a notice from the Speaker’s office that his approval for a trip to Egypt this month to meet with the country’s president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, had been revoked — just hours before his flight was set to depart. No other lawmaker on the congressional delegation received the same cancellation notice.
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... prohibited by law from coordinating with outside political groups like AAN and added that the Speaker does not think these ads attacking fellow Republicans are “appropriate and “strongly believes in Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment.”
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...would compose his landmark The Souls of Black Folk, a book particularly prophetic about the black experience in East Athens. Du Bois would open that book with a question to black Americans, appearing twice in the first paragraph: “How does it feel to be a problem?”
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Richardson exists as a flickering phantom in history, appearing and vanishing like a character in Back to the Future. Did he die with a gun in his hand, heroically silhouetted by an inferno, or did he continue to fill his seat in Atlanta and retire comfortably as a pillar of black Athens? Athens was split almost ev...
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Union League meetings began in the days after the war, meeting on Hancock Avenue across the street from what is now Little Kings, where Dawg Gone Good BBQ sits. Many black Athenians, both old and new, met with their few white sympathizers in what was described by racist whites as gatherings “characterized by dire oaths and frightful paraphernalia of skulls ...
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Union League meetings began in the days after the war, meeting on Hancock Avenue across the street from what is now Little Kings, where Dawg Gone Good BBQ sits. Many black Athenians, both old and new, met with their few white sympathizers in what was described by racist whites as gatherings “characterized by dire oaths and fri...
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With Washington, DC being directly north of Richmond, Virginia, the lyric calls out leaders in both parties for presiding over an economic system that makes the rich richer on the backs of the rest of us.
This is unlikely to be a criticism of class system as rich people live all over America. It is likely a criticism of those inheretors of the unionist legacy and not the Confederates who were pro-slavery.
While it would be untenable to clearly advocate for modern day slavery, it is totally possible to refer to Lost Cause narratives. This refers to the notion that the South was just, fair and that the Rich men North of Richmond are corrupt or amoral.
Instead of looking at the class between rich and poor, the key word Richmond appeals to a lost working-class or a constructed people.
In reality there are disenfranchised workers across the USA, not by state but it is certainly worse for workers in states with harsher laws on unions, more limited welfare and greater control of elites over state apparatus to pursue their interests.
These states are mostly South of Richmond.
After Ronald Regan’s ‘trickle down economics’ were implemented in the 1980’s, the government gave huge tax cuts to the rich, reasoning that their money would ‘trickle down’ to the poor.
Time has shown that the money has not trickled down, and it has just caused the middle class to shrink.
Your argument makes the derogatory inference that any person from the South criticizing the federal government is merely a confederate apologist. Your argument should be based in evidence within the song, not a single lyric interpreted within a vacuum.
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quote from Oliver Anthony for this video on his youtube channel : “Just to be clear: "Rich Men North of Richmond” refers to Washington DC politicians. This is in no way a knock against people from up North."
This appears to be a deliberate attempt to discredit a popular, politically dissident song by conflating its criticisms with the Lost Cause myth. You think we can’t tell, but we can.
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The commentary makes 0 sense.
The song is not about the Civil War
The song is not about the “Lost Cause” view of the Civil War.
There are no mentions anywhere to the Civil War. Your only connection is that Richmond was the capital of the South during the Civil War, therefore the song must be about the civil war. I hope any reasonable person can see why that’s complete nonsense, because it’s STILL THE CAPITAL OF VIRGINIA. It’s still a real city, it’s still the capital of the state of Virginia, a state in the Union.
The song very clearly is about the state of the government. Because the city north of Richmond is Washington D.C. (Again, making your assumption that because the song mentions Richmond it’s about the Civil War even more ridiculous, because the song isn’t even about Richmond, it’s about a city “north of Richmond”).
Whoever wrote the original commentary is just reading their own biases and political beliefs about a historical event into a song that has nothing to do with it.
This doesn’t have anything to do with the Civil War. It’s geography. The rich politicians are north of Richmond,Virginia in Washington D.C. that’s what he’s singing about. These politicians all play on the same team even though they tell the common voter that they are “Republican” or “Democrat” and that they are there to help you, when they are really just there to help themselves.