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wcmagumba

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6. We blew it after the civil war imo...

Reply to jpak (Reply #3)

Fri May 29, 2020, 06:28 PM

May 2020

I just watched the History Channel "Grant" mini series...looks like the North
dropped the ball on "reconstruction" and let the racists in the South (and North)
take over and reintroduce many facets of the pre-war south.This led to the
Jim Crow laws and resurgence of the KKK (after the Grant administration had
almost eliminated the group). We were much too lenient on the South and
its leaders (again imo). Here we are...

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So, we find we've really not come very far. [View all] NRaleighLiberal May 2020 OP

We failed to finish the job in the 60's and early 70's...imo. cayugafalls May 2020 #1

very important addition to my first fragments of thoughts. NRaleighLiberal May 2020 #2

I spent most of the night and early morning with my son watching cayugafalls May 2020 #5

me too. NRaleighLiberal May 2020 #7

We failed to finish the job in the 1860s and '70s jpak May 2020 #3

That too...agreed. cayugafalls May 2020 #4

We blew it after the civil war imo... wcmagumba May 2020 #6