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In reply to the discussion: ...and then a man rode through the lines bearing a white flag. [View all]Hulk
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...and it was well worth the time spent. Ken Burns does such a brilliant job on ALL of his documentaries. This was no exception.
The closing comments by a woman historian of color was that "the Civil War is not over", or something to that affect. It goes on to this very day. The blacks were set free from slavery, but the struggle is still going on, 150 years later. How sad is that.
And once again, the South sickens me. There were many in the North, just as sick and hateful. But once the Civil War concluded, the struggle of the negro was even worse in many ways. The KKK began, and the linchings and murder and humiliation just took a new form.
I'm hoping to watch "The Reconstruction" again. I've seen it before, and it was horrendous in the South. Just made me so disgusted with humanity, but it also explained why we are where we are today.
Anyone, fox-dildos, that can spew the line that "racism is dead" today is an actual walking idiot.