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This is also the strategy that white former slave owners used to disrupt a more equitable reconstruction in the South after the civil war. They took all the poo
by Frondo 7y ago
This is also the strategy that white former slave owners used to disrupt a more equitable reconstruction in the South after the civil war. They took all the poor white folks who were feeling a certain class alliance with the former slaves and said, "look, we know you're dirt poor, but at least you're not like those people." And created the race divide that's still, of course, prevalent in the US.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoSure the wealthy fostered those feelings but I think the fact that a war was just waged on their land and lead to their economy being upended and blacks were the only ones who seemed to benefit probably had something to do with it. White southerners weren't going to instantly give up all the beliefs that they used to justify slavery just because they lost a war.
- Frondo 7y agoFor anyone who'd like to read more, W.E.B. DuBois was the first person to write about it, and this is a nice little jumping-off point: https://psmag.com/social-justice/taking-freedom-capitalism-democracy-and-du-bois https://psmag.com/social-justice/taking-freedom-capitalism-d...