Are you telling me that desegregation was achieved through a civil war and a series of terrorist bombings? Because I know history is whitewashed, but I wasn't aware they had left THAT much out.
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Narrator: they had left that much out.
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I mean, yes, people tend to act as if MLK politely asked if maybe we could have desegregation, that would be nice, and then everyone was like "okay". Which is of course absurd. But he also didn't lead a civil war against the government.
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there was literally a civil war my dude
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we even call it "The Civil War"
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The Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement were fought by different groups for different reasons. (well, the bad guys were basically the same in both conflicts) The Union fought the Civil War to preserve the Union, the Confederates fought to keep slavery.
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Abolitionism was not a popular enough position in the North to fight a war for. Lincoln had to be talked into it by people like Frederick Douglass and Thaddeus Stephens. And even then he was still a racist.
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This is the defining distinction between the two conflicts. The Civil Rights Movement was fought by actual black people, fighting for their own liberation.
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The US education system is really awful.
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"oh was it now?" Fred Hampton's ghost
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What good would it do, really? He ain't likely to listen.
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