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Please help me understand what the thinking is here. Grant won the civil war, as president gave blacks the right to vote and wrote what is commonly considered
by rmason 6y ago
Please help me understand what the thinking is here. Grant won the civil war, as president gave blacks the right to vote and wrote what is commonly considered one of the greatest presidential memoirs. What was his crime?
- proc0 6y agoThere is no thinking. Only hate towards America.
- eesmith 6y agohttps://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/20/junipero-serra-statue-toppled-at-golden-gate-park/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/20/junipero-serra-statue... points out: > Even some who have supported the removal of Confederate monuments questioned whether it was appropriate to do the same with the Union general Grant. [including reasons you listed] > ... before the war, Grant had married into a slave-holding family and briefly owned a man named William Jones, who Grant emancipated in 1859, according to the American Civil War Museum. > Assessing Grant’s legacy toward Native Americans in 2016, the news site Indian Country Today wrote that his policies “fell far short of what he promised,” noting that “some of the worst massacres and grossest injustices in history” occurred during his administration. Grant signed legislation that promoted white Americans’ westward expansion onto Native lands, according to the site, as well as the establishment of reservations, schools and churches blamed for the destruction of Indigenous culture. The ICT article is https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/ulysses-s-grant-mass-genocide-through-permanent-peace-policy-Ing8OYiNuU6hw6ZgulRA9Q https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/ulysses-s-grant-mass-... - "Ulysses S. Grant: Mass Genocide Through ‘Permanent Peace’ Policy".