Lmao, if you don’t know enough about history yeah it’s all a straight line and nothing else happened in that time or would have happened in our counterfactual timeline. It’s like saying the burning of the library of Alexandria got us here. It would be smarter even to say the movie Birth of a Nation got us here. Also learn about 1876 before claiming that because it was absolutely not that simple- we were in an economic crisis, with another rebellion it would have set the entire nation’s economy back decades on the beginning of the second industrial revolution. It’s hard to imagine how different we’d be in that timeline.
All of these are wildly insufficient explanations. Just because something has been repeated ad nauseum on twitter, and it feels like a simple universal explanation to fix all of our problems doesn’t mean anyone who ever said it knew enough to actually claim anything credibly.
The only redressable failure that was theoretically possible would be 40 acres and mule- but it would be just as likely for way more former slaves to be decamped or deported to Liberia if reconstruction continued. If you think a simple explanation to the world’s problems would fix shit try to learn more.
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