Also 100 yrs after slavery- blacks discriminated against in jobs & housing & limited to only a very few allowed to build generational wealth
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150 and counting, really. The discrimination didn't stop, it just got forced underground.
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I wouldn't be surprised if this was intentional, given many class textbooks' standards go through Texas.
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Even more, it wasn't even fought to end slavery. It fought to preserve the union
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It started w/Lincoln's act to stop expansion of slavery into new territories. The south seceded because they thought this was restricting.
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or the destruction of Reconstruction that came after.
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Make that centuries!
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Solid take.
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It's not a trick. White people simply don't empathize with PoC. They genuinely can't fathom all the PoC affected by slavery because of that.
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If you grow up in the south you learn that the reconstruction was the tragedy not the reassertion of a whites-only state after it
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(raised in IL) now I remember how much it was played up that "unqualified" black folks got to serve on juries and hold government office

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