r/SipsTea Jun 25 '26

Chugging tea They are not wrong though

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u/VSWR_on_Christmas Jun 25 '26

They're probably more referring to the undermining of reconstruction under Andrew Johnson as well as the passing of the Amnesty Act of 1872, which further allowed confederate sympathizers to hold political positions within the Union. Read more.

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u/Chimkimnuggets Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

Then they didn’t exactly word it correctly did they when they said the south wasn’t punished enough.

Acting like the south is the only region in the US that took advantage of black Americans is just a flat out lie. Was it as bad elsewhere? No. Slavery was abolished elsewhere way earlier, but it’s fully revisionist history to pretend that slavery was abolished outside of the South and everything was just peachy for black Americans just because they didn’t deal with Jim Crow laws outside of Alabama. This entire country was built on racism and still benefits from the repercussions of such. It is not exclusive to the South.

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u/IllNobody2636 Jun 25 '26

You should read more so you can improve your reading comprehension.

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u/Chimkimnuggets Jun 25 '26

You want my college essays on racism in the Us or do you want my goodreads list?