It allowed southern whites, through terror and law, to recapture control of state governments, disenfranchise African Americans, and, through the apparatus of Jim Crow, reduce them to virtual peonage.
gi.grolier.com
Sorry FL... discussing the lack of "suffrage" amongst post-slavery blacks isn't sufficient, IMO, nor any different from the status of Women, who didn't enjoy the right to vote until the 19th amendment.
During the Civil War, suffragists shelved their cause temporarily, hoping that at war's end, women as well as emancipated slaves would be enfranchised. After the war Republican party politicians believed enfranchisement of the ex-slaves would be defeated if harnessed to the even more unpopular cause of woman's suffrage. They succeeded in passing the the 14th and 15th amendments, to the U.S. CONSTITUTION, which gave the vote to black men but not to women.
So if Blacks can justify such a case for reparations based upon being denied suffrage, women, black and white, have an even stronger case.
And can you imagine how its going to feel if we all see the women in this nation, and all descendants of them, seeking reparations for the denial of their most basic civil rights?? After all, we're ALL descendants of women (though I have my doubts about a few people I've known who I believe were spawned by Satan)
But they would be pressing their case against men, white and black, now wouldn't they? So 1/2 of the US population would be paying off the other half... And that's generally what's been happening for thousands of years anyway... Men giving their spouses money so they will quit nagging them... :0)
And the Arab and muslim world would be in an uproar since in some parts of their world, they still force their women to endure circumcision, and sell their daughters off in marriage, not from love, but for the purpose of creating family bonds.
Interesting twist, wouldn't you say??
Hawk
Edit.. Sorry.. I didn't see you declare it "off-topic" until just now. I just assumed it involves suing a multitude of nations, as well as Farrakhan using the weekend event as a platform for opposing war in Iraq. |
