Suspect the place we really went off the rails as a country was 1864 when we didn't bar from government every single member of the Confederate government and army without exception, seize 100% of Confederate property to give to formerly enslaved people, and muster a Black-led army to defend it all.
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Yeah.
It wasn't just a neat sentence we learned in school then never explored
IT WAS ACTUALLY A THING
THAT A PRO-SOUTHERN PRESIDENT BACKED OUT
I also see the arguments in favor.
Hey, remember back in 2004 when we had 2 Bonesmen running against each other for president? That was nuts, huh?
Hanging was too good for them.
We needed more penance, more acts of contrition and way, way less unearned forgiveness.
They forgot that the Prodigal Son HAD suffered and came home admitting his mistakes, not convinced he was in the right.
Tariff Act of 1894 ultimately gave churches federal income tax exemption which was later declared unconstitutional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yflQd2jyp7Y
Then,
the Revenue Act of 1913 reinstated the church tax exemption along w/creating our modern income tax system.
https://bsky.app/profile/dcflash.bsky.social/post/3liewrjwp3226
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52048467
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I just listened to a John Trudell speech, where he asserted that the audience shouldn't listen to him because he's "crazy" but, "If you find yourself in a room somewhere in the future, waiting to go to an internment camp," you can say to yourself; "He was crazy but he was right."
Eliminated
You can argue against their execution, fine, but they need to be immiserated and persecuted until death
Does he admit to wanting to annex the Dominican Republic to send Black people there?
Or defend about his actions here?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ulysses-grant-launched-illegal-war-plains-indians-180960787/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_United_States_census
The next reconstruction should be done with this in mind.
We're incredibly gutless when it comes to white terrorists.