Was 'Reconstruction' a myth?Black people were never fully emancipated,proper assilmilation was never reached.My question from a christian perspective.

[Christian Saboteur]

This is a question for anyone properly educated on the Reconstruction era,not for people who get there information from FOX,or MSNBC.What was it that happened that federal control/troops were removed from the former confederate states?.When federal control was removed,the former confederate states implemented their old ways,but in different forms.Laws were passed in disfavor of black folks,making it easier to put blacks in jail,or get them sent to the county work farm(slaves again),or hung from a tree.Black children always got the worst schooling,making them look dumb,and also controlling blacks as a labor force.Eventually blacks had to take upon themselves to create there own schools and colleges,and economic enclaves.With the 'Reconstruction' era cutshort,a psychology/mindset of 'Your not supposed to do that to other folks' was never established in the minds of white folks.Enlighten me?.

 

[jasonc]

Reconstruction failed because of two things .

The south resisted ,two primarily the democratic majority forced the end to it .

Said laws also existed outside of the Confederate states .parts of the north had laws like that .

In federal levels blacks couldn't share the same things with these .ranks in the military,jobs ,bathrooms . It becomes such a problem that In WW2 the blacks saw the British freedom and took arms to enjoy said permitted freedoms for them in the empire ,said rebellion was quelled and kept quiet.

Post war florida has some stories . Eau gallie now part of Melbourne was a freeman colony that failed .

 

[oldprophet]

Reconstruction was a failure. Corruption was rampant. The KuKluxKlan was a result of the bigotry of the period. The seeds of bigotry against Black people during Reconstruction continues until this present day

 

[hawkman]

Reconstruction was a failure. Corruption was rampant. The KuKluxKlan was a result of the bigotry of the period. The seeds of bigotry against Black people during Reconstruction continues until this present day

Even in states without the KKK .

California Once Tried to Ban Black People The new state’s leaders banned slavery—but tried to kick free Black people out.

 

[oldprophet]

Even in states without the KKK .

California Once Tried to Ban Black People The new state’s leaders banned slavery—but tried to kick free Black people out.

California was also guilty of it's persecution of it's indigenous people. Thanks Father Sierra

 

[Christian Saboteur]

Then there are the people that think the Civil War solved everything,Oh Boy!.In places like Mississippi if you was a "Hill Country White",you weren't no better than a black person in the eyes of the ruling class(Plantation Owners).It just wasn't about the blacks,it was about controlling the labor force.All the seeding of more divisivness we were seeing on the alphabet news sources after the death of George Floyd is when I stopped watching the news.And then there is the argument over 'Confederate Statues'.I had to learn on my own that those statues were erected 100 years after the Civil War was over, by the 'Daughters of the Confederacy'as a middle finger to emancipation.The media sources of division didn't enlighten me as to real reason for the statues,something about a 'Lost Cause'.I don't even want to start on L.B.J's "Great Society Project"(Disaster),which wrecked black communties/families.It is 'Sick' what has been to all of us by the Federal Goverment,and the Media.If black people want to be mad at somebody,they need to direct their anger at the federal goverment.White people are victims of all of this,just as much as blacks.

 

[jasonc]

Then there are the people that think the Civil War solved everything,Oh Boy!.In places like Mississippi if you was a "Hill Country White",you weren't no better than a black person in the eyes of the ruling class(Plantation Owners).It just wasn't about the blacks,it was about controlling the labor force.All the seeding of more divisivness we were seeing on the alphabet news sources after the death of George Floyd is when I stopped watching the news.And then there is the argument over 'Confederate Statues'.I had to learn on my own that those statues were erected 100 years after the Civil War was over, by the 'Daughters of the Confederacy'as a middle finger to emancipation.The media sources of division didn't enlighten me as to real reason for the statues,something about a 'Lost Cause'.I don't even want to start on L.B.J's "Great Society Project"(Disaster),which wrecked black communties/families.It is 'Sick' what has been to all of us by the Federal Goverment,and the Media.If black people want to be mad at somebody,they need to direct their anger at the federal goverment.White people are victims of all of this,just as much as blacks.

You must not live in the south with those .

I have photos of them in Monticello fl , Moultrie ga and I know Tallahassee likely had one ,Quincy and Madison FL have them .these all are by court houses

 

[Josef]

Hey All,
You cannot force people to think a certain way by legislation. There is a reason the equal rights act did not get passed until 1964. It took that long for a majority of people to have grown up in homes where slavery did not exist, and the people who had fathers and mothers that remembered slavery, to die. Can you imagine Dr. King giving his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1900?
Instant rejection in the South; because the memories still existed. Unfortunately, progress is sometimes slow.
But I have seen progress in my 66 years. For example,when I grew up in the 1960s, some people still used the "N" word. Now I only hear it used in African American rap songs; which I find ironic.
Does anyone else see improvement like this?


Keep walking everybody.
May God bless,
Taz