Pinned
From the book What This Cruel War Was Over by Chandra Manning:
During the Civil War, most Union soldiers didn’t care about the issue of slavery and were more focused on preventing the collapse of the United States. This would change as many Union soldiers encountered horrific circumstances of slavery and it’s widespread influence on southern society, with accounts like these: “Pvt. Chauncey Cooke experienced an epiphany when a fair-skinned slave woman whose children had been fathered and sold by her master told the young Wisconsin boy that her children looked like him, and that she missed them dreadfully because she loved them “just likes you mammy loves you.” ” “When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, “By G–d I’ll fight till hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on.”Sgt. Cyrus Boyd.
True horrors wake people up in the past and in the present. I feel like one of the only recourses a lot of people have is to share accounts and footage of ICE atrocities to as many people as possible.
Gov. Tim Walz encouraged Minnesota residents to carry their phones at all times to record federal immigration actions, promising during a statewide address on Wednesday night that “accountability is coming” for abuses by federal officers.
“Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans, not just to establish a record for posterity but to bank evidence for future prosecution,” Walz said.
Walz made the remarks during a six-minute address on Wednesday night as the state confronts a surge of between 2,000 and 3,000 agents, as well as widespread reports of violence against citizens and immigrants alike, including the killing of Renee Good last week.
“News reports simply don’t do justice to the level of chaos and disruption and trauma the federal government is raining down upon our communities,” Walz said.
The Trump administration has only intensified its focus on immigration actions in the state since Good’s killing and calls by Democratic leaders to end it.
Minnesota and the Twin Cities are suing the Trump administration, alleging that the increased federal actions are unconstitutional and a violation of federal law. U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez said in a Wednesday hearing that there wasn’t enough time to make an informed ruling on state officials’ request for an injunction to stop “further legal violations and unlawful escalations” by federal agents reporting to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Walz renewed the call for ICE to leave on Wednesday evening, telling President Donald Trump and Noem: “End this occupation. You’ve done enough.”
Walz and Minnesota Democrats have also condemned the administration for ending a joint investigation into the Good killing; the Department of Justice kicked the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension off the case, though local prosecutors say they’ll continue to investigate. A group of six federal prosecutors quit this week in protest over the U.S. Department of Justice’s push to investigate Good, her widow and their ties to anti-ICE activists, the New York Times reported.
