re: #202 Decatur Deb

A farce, but a necessary farce. Consider that “national reconciliation” was the progressive approach of the times. The shitheads, then and even now, defined themselves as “unreconstructed”.

Starting with the Compromise of 1877, the end of Reconstruction, Jim Crow and continued segregation were collectively the required price of national reconciliation and unity. It was too high but progressive administrations accepted it right up to the time of JFK. Southern racists held up their end of bargain, too, and became some of the most loyal and jingoistically patriotic Americans. Even today, racists maintain this pretense.