Let’s try this again: are Trump’s “shithole” comments the all-time ugly American statement? (If not, please specify alternative)
Reconstruction was a disaster; the epidemics alone make it nearly inhuman to talk glowingly about "progressive legislation"
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Reconstruction wasn't a disaster. Education amongst southern black people flourished, as did public education and healthcare initiatives in the South, generally. Federally, though loopholes and caveats were created, the 14th & 15th Amends were ratified. Those are achievements.
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The failures of Reconstruction, of which there are many, were on the failure of the Federal government to continue to oversight on white supremacists at the state level, the failure to properly police white supremacists, & the desire to exploit the West.
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