This is the kind of thing I, as a proud descendant of Southern 'scalawags', have been saying for decades! Such as the fact that it was NO accident that NO Southern state had ANY public education for anyone of ANY shade of skin until Reconstruction! Today's oligarchs are political descendants of that same Slave Power!
This is the kind of thing I, as a proud descendant of Southern 'scalawags', have been saying for decades! Such as the fact that it was NO accident that NO Southern state had ANY public education for anyone of ANY shade of skin until Reconstruction! Today's oligarchs are political descendants of that same Slave Power!
Someone else has observed, I forget who, that the same man invented a machine (the cotton gin) that made a civil war certain, also invented interchangeable parts--which ensured the North, and the forces of freedom, would win that civil war. History is full of such remarkable coincidences.
This is the kind of thing I, as a proud descendant of Southern 'scalawags', have been saying for decades! Such as the fact that it was NO accident that NO Southern state had ANY public education for anyone of ANY shade of skin until Reconstruction! Today's oligarchs are political descendants of that same Slave Power!
Someone else has observed, I forget who, that the same man invented a machine (the cotton gin) that made a civil war certain, also invented interchangeable parts--which ensured the North, and the forces of freedom, would win that civil war. History is full of such remarkable coincidences.