Ridir wrote:
sergeriver wrote:
You blame Lincoln for the education system in the South, after 140 years? Lol. And blame the racists for the lynchings and killings not Lincoln.
I blame Lincoln for setting up a situation that lead to a horrible reconstruction in the South. There were many different things that could have been done, some by Lincoln, some not, that would have kept the US South from being so far behind in education, economy, etc.
Oh and yes you can blame the racists for the lynchings and killings but the Union pulled out its occuping troops because the US government was bought off and focused their attention to the westward expansion. Instead of maintaining and controlling the South they left it to a network of terrorist organizations, KKK being the most commonly known one. If the Union troops had stayed I don't think that:
a. there would be such a difference between whites and blacks in the following century.
b. the education and economy of the South would be a lot better then it currently is, instead of trapping Southerns (minorities and whites alike) in the South with no way to get improvement besides federal grants, aids, etc. for Universities.
Don't get me wrong I know there are ways to get out of a bad situation, my mother did it and put me in a decent position and I worked hard to get out as well.
Read the history books, not the propoganda books you were given in elementary school.