How years of violent racism followed the last two times the US pardoned insurrectionists (AlterNet) Donald Trump is the third U.S. president to pardon a large group of insurrectionists. His clemency toward those convicted of crimesrelated to the Jan. 6, 20...

#BigTruth:

#Impached (but also NOT convicted) #AndrewJohnson destroyed #Reconstruction

"...Klan violence amounted to a shadow government of white nationalists."

#UlyssesGrant "hoped his #KKK pardons would encourage Southerners...It didn’t. They told former #Confederates they were winning."