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I think if the Feds had been able to protect the newly elected Black lawmakers, it would have eventually worn down the Klan etc. But they let southerners depose many of those lawmakers, and turn the South into a region where apartheid was accepted.

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So that's truly a difference A. Lincoln could have made. I've got a book made from letters sent home by a French diplomat who was with him a lot of the time near the end of the war, and he said that when people would say to Lincoln, "we've got to make them really pay for this!" Lincoln would get so irritated. But defending these elected men-- that he would have done. (The book is by Marquis de Chambrun)

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But Gabriel was killing people who'd given him his food and his nice clothes. I mean, they'd provided his nice lifestyle.

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But you could scrape them off the face of the earth, and donate that land to the people’s fallows tha were once enslaved there

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Those "southern weddings" at former plantations are absolutely disgusting.

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To sap their precious bodily fluids?

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Yep... then blaming the poor when those that used to be *lucky enough* gradually slip into poverty themselves.

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Am I the only one who has some auto-play report about UVA and COVID that I can't find to shut off on this non-comment section?

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In my experience, internet porn does that far more efficiently.

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They still believe their hands were only 3/5th bloody.

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“Gaming companies will be barred from providing services to minors in any form outside the stipulated hours and must ensure they have put real-name verification systems in place, said the regulator, which oversees the country’s video games market.”

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Imagine the reaction if Germany turned their concentration camps into some sort of high end resort & water parks…

The Nazis learned FROM the Jim Crow imagineers and enforcers.

I think I'm surprised how few white Americans seem to know about that other than Mary Trump and these writers and other creators who research the problem.

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That was the wedge that Reagan and his fellow travelers used to help divide and conquer working people.

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The Chinese government likes to present themselves as the guardians of "Chinese-ness", to get support for themselves. If the people get too enamored of some Western things, they might get interested in other Western things like democracy.

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When I was a smol bot, I lived in Mt Shasta, California. One of the closer towns (maybe 1/3 of the way around the base of the mountain) was McCloud.

It was a company town, with all that implies about trapped workers, except the product was lumber. And not the only company town in the west.

So the former slave states weren’t the only place they prospered.

https://www.mccloudchamber....

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