Reconstruction was an evil America has never fully recovered from.The awful calamity of civil war is a wound that has not been allowed to heal. Both North—and South tolerate each other almost like the Sunni and Shia of Islam.We have much in common—yet much that to this day divide us.
There was no "right" policy. Rebuilding the country was a thankless task. Somebody was bound to find fault with whatever was done and whatever happened. And the things that most people object to now weren't what most people objected to earlier. More like the opposite.
The awful calamity of civil war is a wound that has not been allowed to heal. Both North—and South tolerate each other almost like the Sunni and Shia of Islam.We have much in common—yet much that to this day divide us.
Really? We aren't killing each other in the streets. Compared to what goes on in other countries -- even compared to the Black-White conflicts going on now -- North-South hostility isn't that big a thing. A lot of the time, it's just a matter of bloggers trying to get attention by stirring up old enmities.
Reconstruction only lasted, at the longest, what, 15 years?
But the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has been with us 50 years, and like a boot on our necks, let’s the federal government have the final say in all our political decisions, even to include how we incorporate our towns and cities.
Everyone should have the right to vote, but those who kept blacks from voting have long passed. Why do Southern states still have to have this imposed on them, but not the Northern and Western states, some of which have more bigotry then here?