Some of these "race first" people are really invested in making sure no policy even *accidentally* benefits any white people, no matter their economic status, and I don't know what to say except for that it's inhumane and a sure way to alienate a natural coalition.
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Yes, black codes, vagrancy laws, penal labor/peonage, forced sharecropping, lynch law & other forms of discrimination was such a significant advancement for blacks. That’s just one amongst many flaws in that comment.
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This is completely ahistorical. The things you're talking about were heavily suppressed by Reconstruction, not produced by it. When that was broken by breaking the biracial coalition, black codes, vagrancy laws, etc all surged back. It ushered in the Gilded Age and rampant misery
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