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107302, your grasp of american history is atrocious
Posted by theprofessional, Fri Dec-14-12 03:57 AM
the best thing i can say about your analysis of reconstruction is that you spelled "north" and "south" correctly. everything else is spectacularly wrong. you should probably go back to analyzing the movie you haven't seen. you were way better at that.

for posterity:

>Place was burned to the ground post civil war which probably
>made
>it harder for blacks in the South in the long run -- by
>destroying southern
>infrastructure, it encouraged a lawlessness, created a larger
>white
>underclass who scapegoated blacks even worse
>
>Black people ain't ask for all that
>
>Just for some freedom, right to wages
>
>Again: all that was vengeance and white men exerting their
>power and authority
>
>Black people was down souf like: "Ummm we free, they took an
>L over the war, fall back with all these hydrogen bombs, B,
>they
>got the fucking message"
>
>black people didn't need the south burned to the ground for
>Rosewood
>to blossom Blacks were self reliant, happy to go toe to toe
>with whites
>in the economy.....umm, they already knew how to grow crops
>better than whites
>
>After the south was burned to the ground, wasn't nothing
>there
>for blacks to do but go back to work on plantations in chain
>gangs, move north, or buy a cowboy hat and move west