I thought that was the flag of Ohio for a moment. It would fit the meme template, but not on this sub.
PretendAd1963 on
Johnson just threw civil rights and Lincoln reconstruction plans under the bus and when Grant took over it momentum was already slowed.
Emotional_Newt_2227 on
the meme is funny but the history underneath it genuinely isn’t reconstruction failing wasn’t inevitable. it was a choice made by people who decided reconciliation with the former confederacy was more politically convenient than justice for the people who had just been enslaved
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“America + decent people”: interesting choice of words
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I thought that was the flag of Ohio for a moment. It would fit the meme template, but not on this sub.
Johnson just threw civil rights and Lincoln reconstruction plans under the bus and when Grant took over it momentum was already slowed.
the meme is funny but the history underneath it genuinely isn’t reconstruction failing wasn’t inevitable. it was a choice made by people who decided reconciliation with the former confederacy was more politically convenient than justice for the people who had just been enslaved
“America + decent people”: interesting choice of words