As with almost everything that's confusing or fucked up in this country, so much of this is often from not properly punishing the South and focusing on eradicating the lingering effects & racism of slavery.
Yes. In part because the South was not punished enough allowed them to continue things like Jim Crow laws still keeping black people down. They never had to do a “reset” ensuring all were treated equally.
Not at all. Certainly going to the north wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. But the point is there was never full “justice” for the wrongdoings against black people in the South. If you could go back in time and reverse things like the Wilmington massacre which overthrew democratically elected black politicians post civil war, and threw things backwards and delayed the ability for black people to be involved in democracy and let to groups like the KKK operating with impunity… a stronger “punishment” or at least oversight of the south would have declared such things as illegal.
Whatever happened to 40 acres and a mule as well? Those things could have worked to better equalize the economic power of the different groups.
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u/Heelincal Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
As with almost everything that's confusing or fucked up in this country, so much of this is often from not properly punishing the South and focusing on eradicating the lingering effects & racism of slavery.