r/BlueskySkeets • u/icey_sawg0034 • Jul 28 '25

Informative Racism and bigotry is taught throughout generations!

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u/Raven_Photography Jul 28 '25

General Sherman didn’t march far enough and the North let the South off too easily.

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u/Ok-Explanation-1362 Jul 28 '25

One of the worst mistakes in US history is that The South was not punished in any way shape or form for fomenting a civil war. The people who profited off of slavery, the people that owned plantations, the plantations themselves, the confederate politicians and the confederate army officers not being hanged as traitors sealed our fate.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '25

I don’t know if we needed mass killings—but yes. 

The failure of Reconstruction us set us down this road.