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MICHAEL WARAKSA ILLUSTRATION: HISTORICAL MALPRACTICE

January 31, 2018

Michael Waraksa’s illustration for Teaching Tolerance Magazine, published by the Southern Poverty Law Center, accompanied an article about a social studies teacher who doubled down on debunking Confederacy myths after witnessing the rise of the “alt-right".

The states’ rights argument has lingered for decades, in part because many Southerners don’t want to believe their relatives fought for slavery, but also because of the propaganda efforts of white nationalists and Confederate sympathizers who have rebranded the Confederate cause to make it more palatable to a contemporary audience. But the painful reality continues to bubble to the surface and it exposes this argument for what it is: a smokescreen for a white supremacist ideology.

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