Conservatives programed to trigger at words "Black Lives Matter" by Russian trolls.
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hanimmal
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I really don't remember learning anything about reconstruction. At least not outside of what white southerners have painted it as in propaganda in movies like the above one. There was a good podcast (40 acres and a mule I think was the name) that uncovered examples of freed slaves actually being granted land only to have it ripped out from under them after only a couple years and nobody in their families ever knew, even though they lived in the town that it happened in fall these generations later.
I do find interesting about this report (there is not a date that I found on it, but the latest footnote was for something written in 2016), is how it talks about how post civil war the black wealth build up over a billion dollars and they had entire towns. But then it jumps to the 60s and ignores the destruction of this wealth when angry white men burned down the towns that the freed slaves built up.
I just wonder how much of this history being pulled back up is thanks to the HBO series Watchmen.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/nps-reconstruction-era-booklet/
I do find interesting about this report (there is not a date that I found on it, but the latest footnote was for something written in 2016), is how it talks about how post civil war the black wealth build up over a billion dollars and they had entire towns. But then it jumps to the 60s and ignores the destruction of this wealth when angry white men burned down the towns that the freed slaves built up.
I just wonder how much of this history being pulled back up is thanks to the HBO series Watchmen.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/nps-reconstruction-era-booklet/
