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Dangerman8/22/2017 10:15:22 am PDT

re: #286 Belafon

I have a Civil War hypothesis to explain the statues: We never officially ended the part of the Civil War due to slavery. The original goal of the war was maintaining the Union of the country. And while Republicans were abolitionists, and Lincoln after the Emancipation Proclamation made the war also about ending slavery, we really ended it on preserving the union. We didn’t go through and systematically destroy all of the things that supported slavery. Reconstruction tried, but, like going to the moon, people got bored with it and moved on. And that allowed a system to be restored that was slavery in everything but name. Jim Crow and the statues were consequences of that. If we had truly ended slavery, we would have completely redone the economy of the south, redivided the land so that it didn’t match the plantations, and introduced more manufacturing.

Shorter: We still have to have the final battle over slavery.

hence the moral necessity for the civil rights movement nearly 100 years after the 14th amendment.

partially because even though the constitution stated that everyone was equal, systematic, institutionalized, localized “mistreatment” was allowed, tolerated, disregarded, perpetuated, etc

those that were enslaved, freed, etc were not “granted” or nor “given” rights. those rights were always there (and are). before the war they were forcefully and with the power and might of “the state”, suppressed. after the war they were still forcefully and with the power and might of “the state”, suppressed by those very same mechanisms.

14A notwithstanding, the federal level mostly disregarded it, and still does

as an aside, the same is true for lgbtq. they are not being “given” or “granted” anything. as a whole, humanity is coming to deal with the fact that they have the same inherent rights and freedoms as everyone else. it’s the structural impediments to enjoying these freedoms that are being laid bare and torn away. the individual are gaining an ability - to exercise their innate freedom.