Perhaps the biggest hurdle to the success of Reconstruction was the failure of whites to accept the new position blacks had in this country. Why would they have so much difficulty in accepting them?
Whites not accepting their former slaves becoming citizens? Really? Shocker. You know, seeing as how their "masters", I guess they would be called, had always seen them as pieces of property who were theirs to own--years and years of experience with their own personal slaves. Though I do NOT own any slaves, I would imagine it a bit like dogs suddenly becoming citizens, and suddenly my dog Hashi leaving home and voting and all that. It would be really hard to imagine, and it might even make me mad--my companion, the one who practically OWES me love (since I feed her and house her and all this nice stuff) is leaving me suddenly AND she gets a role in society?! Preposterous! Though I am not saying black people are dogs or any other kind of animal than human, it would kind of be like that. Kind of.
You know, I REALLY need to stop being so chatty in my responses, since I'm going to be graded on this. But whatever. I mean, it breaks my heart to think Hashi would leave me!
Love and other indoor sports,
Blue Disastrous
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