Reconstruction: Crash Course Black American History #19
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Sonja
Yet again feeling pain for what has happened in our history. I live in a county named for Forrest. and I expect that his role in the KKK is part of WHY it's named for him. That thought sickens me, as does the knowledge that even now, Southern states loudly claim that they were -mistreated- during Reconstruction. far as I know they still teach it in public schools as -the North decided to beat up the South because they hated us! We were victimized! The black folks wanted to beat up all the white folks! -
And no, I'm not exaggerating. It's disgusting. It's possible that some of that is toned down in the years since my son was in school, but not by much. And I cannot even imagine how any African American student must feel, with that kind of narrative shoved in their faces. Especially when they surely have family stories (not to mention documented history) that directly contradicts such a blatant set of lies.
And yet, sitting around in metaphorical sackcloth and ashes won't help anybody. Sitting with this pain and learning the shape of the monster that we must slay. is important. But man, it's hard.
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Yet again feeling pain for what has happened in our history. I live in a county named for Forrest. and I expect that his role in the KKK is part of WHY it's named for him. That thought sickens me, as does the knowledge that even now, Southern states loudly claim that they were -mistreated- during Reconstruction. far as I know they still teach it in public schools as -the North decided to beat up the South because they hated us! We were victimized! The black folks wanted to beat up all the white folks! -
And no, I'm not exaggerating. It's disgusting. It's possible that some of that is toned down in the years since my son was in school, but not by much. And I cannot even imagine how any African American student must feel, with that kind of narrative shoved in their faces. Especially when they surely have family stories (not to mention documented history) that directly contradicts such a blatant set of lies.
And yet, sitting around in metaphorical sackcloth and ashes won't help anybody. Sitting with this pain and learning the shape of the monster that we must slay. is important. But man, it's hard.
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jliller
Unfortunately, I think the kind of real reconstruction that needed to be done in the South after the American Civil War was simply impossible in 19th century America. There was (predictably) a lot of resistance by white Southerners while white Northerners were too indifferent (being largely anti-slavery but not pro-black. There wasn't the willpower or patience to have an extended period of occupation, rebuilding, and reform which probably would have needed to last 20-30 years. Especially since it was by no means the only political issue of the day, and in any case too easy to dismiss as a regional issue.
Some kind of -Deconfederatification- or even a truth and reconciliation commission were ideas too far into the future. When half of white American children weren't receiving public education in 1870 how do you sell voters on the idea of the federal government paying to provide education for Freedmen of all ages?
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Unfortunately, I think the kind of real reconstruction that needed to be done in the South after the American Civil War was simply impossible in 19th century America. There was (predictably) a lot of resistance by white Southerners while white Northerners were too indifferent (being largely anti-slavery but not pro-black. There wasn't the willpower or patience to have an extended period of occupation, rebuilding, and reform which probably would have needed to last 20-30 years. Especially since it was by no means the only political issue of the day, and in any case too easy to dismiss as a regional issue.
Some kind of -Deconfederatification- or even a truth and reconciliation commission were ideas too far into the future. When half of white American children weren't receiving public education in 1870 how do you sell voters on the idea of the federal government paying to provide education for Freedmen of all ages?
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Terri
Black Senators and House members at the federal level, and hundreds of black legislators across the south were nearly instantaneous following the war. It was the Democrats slaughtering, lynching, and intimidating Republicans that eventually gave Democrats power again-- and all the vast and rapid progress was lost for a hundred years.
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Black Senators and House members at the federal level, and hundreds of black legislators across the south were nearly instantaneous following the war. It was the Democrats slaughtering, lynching, and intimidating Republicans that eventually gave Democrats power again-- and all the vast and rapid progress was lost for a hundred years.
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Hosanna
The Freedman's Bureau being dissolved and the concessions made for Hayes' election basically left black Americans in the south with NOTHING to lean on. The oppressed population was freed and forgotten. I can't help but wonder what difference it would have made if those two things in particular had been avoided.
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The Freedman's Bureau being dissolved and the concessions made for Hayes' election basically left black Americans in the south with NOTHING to lean on. The oppressed population was freed and forgotten. I can't help but wonder what difference it would have made if those two things in particular had been avoided.
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Dragons,
Studying Reconstruction Era makes me so sad. If Abraham Lincoln had lived, or had a non-enslaver VP to succeed him, or if the Compromise hadn't made federal troops bail out of the South, we would be living in a better, more enlightened nation. We made so much progress in that decade and it was all erased.
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Studying Reconstruction Era makes me so sad. If Abraham Lincoln had lived, or had a non-enslaver VP to succeed him, or if the Compromise hadn't made federal troops bail out of the South, we would be living in a better, more enlightened nation. We made so much progress in that decade and it was all erased.
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Ross
When my mother went Alabama to visit her sister, A nurse, she was unable to open a bank account because she -wasn't local. - Since she was from Chicago and Michigan before that, she was considered a carpet bagger. So she used Postal Savings Stamps, which would become US savings bonds. This was during WWII.
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When my mother went Alabama to visit her sister, A nurse, she was unable to open a bank account because she -wasn't local. - Since she was from Chicago and Michigan before that, she was considered a carpet bagger. So she used Postal Savings Stamps, which would become US savings bonds. This was during WWII.
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Kerry
I check back every now and then to see if they-ve put any new history stuff up and I-m loving this I just wish all the episodes were out lol. Having binged watched the first 19 in past two days I-m just excited to see the remaining episodes.
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I check back every now and then to see if they-ve put any new history stuff up and I-m loving this I just wish all the episodes were out lol. Having binged watched the first 19 in past two days I-m just excited to see the remaining episodes.
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Tom
The 13th Amendment had a loophole, insofar as the -criminalization- of black people was a means of re-enslaving them. Hence the Black Codes, and the disproportionate incarceration even today.
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The 13th Amendment had a loophole, insofar as the -criminalization- of black people was a means of re-enslaving them. Hence the Black Codes, and the disproportionate incarceration even today.
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STEEL
Yes because Southern whites were determined to show Black people that they might have lost the war but one thing they did not lose, and that was their undying belief in white supremacy.
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Yes because Southern whites were determined to show Black people that they might have lost the war but one thing they did not lose, and that was their undying belief in white supremacy.
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MachoJabroni
I feel that Reconstruction could have been broken up into two episodes, but nonetheless I am still impressed by the quality of content. Excited for the Ida B. Wells episode!
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I feel that Reconstruction could have been broken up into two episodes, but nonetheless I am still impressed by the quality of content. Excited for the Ida B. Wells episode!
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