Frederick Douglass' obit of Lincoln talks about this American liberal obsession with unity, the idea of America
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Lincoln loved the Union more than he hated slavery (which he did hate) or he loved black ppl (which he admitted on a personal lvl he didn't)
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What he really wanted was for America to Do Better *together*, and the whole war was informed by that desire
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If the North had in fact treated the South as an enemy to defeat rather than as family to bring home things might've been different
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But man, is that mindset ever still alive. Don't "write off" Trump voters, don't "dismiss them as racists"
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They're our brothers and sisters, our family, you can't just turn them out. This is the ongoing white liberal conversation
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And you're talking abt unity with ppl whose whole worldview is based on disunity, on the right to declare ppl Other and Less Than
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They'll disown YOU in a hot minute. The moment you show too much sympathy to slaves or to immigrants or to anyone alien or weird
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The real big secret they don't teach you is that whole tragic "brother against brother" narrative is a Northern thing
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The Rebels didn't see the Yankees as brothers, they didn't regret fighting the war, and in fact they never stopped fighting it
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Redemption was a continuation of the Civil War. It was guerrilla warfare, plain and simple
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The Klan was an insurgent military force, a rebellion
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Since the war we've had an ongoing rebel movement within the US and the US has preferred to lie to itself about it
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