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Call me whatever, as long as it's not bigoted, I guess. She/her, cis, if you’re curious. Indigenous American (NDN, Native/Native American), USA. Don't let my url make you feel some type of way.
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Anonymous asked:
Dang, what DID happen during the reconstruction then? It's way more fun to have you say it rather than books or google
So 1865-1876 is one of the most important decades in American history like genuinely our failure to do this right is the root of all evil today. It is very complicated. Here is the best shortest answer i can give you.
After the Civil War, with the plantation south destroyed and about 5 million previously enslaved people freed, the American government faced two big questions: what to do to reconcile the South back into the union to prevent another civil war, and what the social, economic, and political status of freedpeople in the South was going to be. Note that at this time Republicans were liberal and Democrats were conservative.
Abraham Lincoln had a plan that was a bit too lenient to the South than his more radical party members in Congress liked, but he was more committed to Black civil rights than his Democratic contemporaries. Radical Republicans wanted to take steps to ensure none of this would happen again, including redistributing land to freedpeople as a form of reparations, mass industrialization in the South, and preventing white ex confederates from voting or holding office while giving freedpeople the right to vote. Southern Democrats (white supremacists. Not that northerners werent but christ alive these were evil people) resisted this at all costs.
Unfortunately for everyone to this day, Lincoln’s vice president was a southern democrat, so when Lincoln got shot in the hat and died, now-president Andrew Johnson decided to let mostly everything slide. He let the Southern states back in with very few guardrails, took redistributed land and gave it back to enslavers (they had to personally ask him because he liked when they begged), and generally neglected Black civil rights the entire time he was President because he was super racist. Congress (much more radical) ended up in the drivers seat of Reconstruction halfway through his admin.
Congress passed the 13th Amendment to end slavery except as a punishment for a crime. White ex-confederates retaliated by passing the Black Codes, state laws that made it a crime to exercise really any social or economic autonomy while Black so that freedpeople could be incarcerated or coerced into essentially doing the same plantation labor they previously had been. Many white plantation owners put Black people (later also poor whites) into perpetual debt with systems like sharecropping and crop-lien, so they could not afford their own land. A lot of it was recreating the conditions of slavery in the aggregate using capitalism and a white supremacist legal system.
The federal government passed the 14th and 15th Amendments, which nullified the Black Codes, protected Black citizenship, disenfranchised white ex-confederates for a while, and protected the right of Black men to vote. This was especially critical in states like South Carolina and Mississippi, which had Black majorities. Some Southern states had biracial (black and white) populist political parties, because poor whites had common class interests with many freedmen.
White ex-confederates responded to these civil rights milestones with what can only be described as mass terrorism: the formation of the KKK, sundown towns, widespread lynchings, voter intimidation, voter fraud, public beatings, etc. President Grant, who took office after Johnson, tried to combat this by putting chunks of the South under martial law, which sort of worked when the army was in fact there.
However, Grant was mired in scandal and not super popular, and it really came to a head during the panic of 1873: the economy got bad, and lots of white northern liberals lost enthusiasm to keep forcing the white south into modernity. They decided essentially that they had their own problems to deal with, that Black people could fend for themselves, and that white ex-confederates had “been through enough” (very little.) White Southern racists called “redeemers” gained a lot of political power during the mid 1870s as more white people got their right to vote back.
All of this comes to an end in the election of 1876: due to “voting irregularities” in SC, LA, and FL (an overt violent white supremacist coup in SC and some significant fraud in the latter states), the election came down to the House of Representatives instead of the Electoral College. Rutherford B Hayes, the Republican candidate, promised the white south that if they made him the president, he would pull all the US troops protecting civil rights and fighting the Klan out of the South and end reconstruction. They happily took that deal, actively condemning millions of African-Americans to a century of severe white supremacy.
After reconstruction, the white South passed Jim Crow laws like segregation and voter disenfranchisement to cement the electoral, social, and economic control of southern whites. The US Supreme Court also enforced these (racism is a national problem.) The biracial political coalitions of Reconstruction died out as more and more poor whites picked white supremacy over class solidarity.
Conditions for African-Americans obviously improved over literal slavery, but the South remained a deeply racist, largely agrarian, and economically regressive place for a long time. Many opted to flee the South for the urban north in the early 1900s. A lot of the damage done by the failure of Reconstruction did not get addressed until the Civil Rights movement, and a lot of it still hasn’t been addressed at all.
Watch this video it will help you with the basics.
Black Reconstruction by WEB DuBois and Reconstruction by Eric Foner are the starting points heavily recommend.
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Gaga couldve just said lets have some fun this beat is sick i wanna take a ride on your penis dick. But she went with disco stick because shes a what? poet.
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I post with my long and creepy finger
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It’s crazy that thinking “hey, I don’t think we should have year round access to fruits that come at the expense of other people’s climate” and “I think genocide should be enough to not vote for a candidate, regardless of its benefits to those in the US” will have you labeled an evil, dirty commie that wants all poor poc lgbt disabled people to die in the “glorious revolution”.
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your life was a gift! don't throw it away! if it's going to end no matter what you needn't rush the conclusion!! today was given to you because you deserved to be here for it! you deserve to be here tomorrow too!! hold steady for me!!!
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Paul Laffoley (1935-2015) — Alice Pleasance Liddell [oil, acrylic, ink, on canvas, 1968]
Reblogged forbiddenpondrocks
I'm gonna be real with you, i don't think weirdo kinksters should be considered acceptable collateral damage when banks/credit card companies enforce adult content bans on sites like patreon and ko-fi
"sure it's just the weirdo fetishists getting hit now but soon they'll try to censor normal queer people!!!" you should care about the fact the 'weirdo fetishists' also lost their livelihoods too
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he is eating curry rice which is themed after himself
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disturbing amount of people out there who think doing misogyny to trans women is a sign of respecting them as women and thus good instead of the obvious act of oppression it is
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I hate googling shit like "why am I still sad and tired when I ate and slept and have been walked and watered" and it's always some shit like "your brain is fried because your parents sucked at handling kids when you were a kid". Like can it be literally anything else sometime, just for the sake of variety.
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if you like crafting and also free things, might i suggest the antique pattern library?
it’s a not for profit that’s gathering books, patterns, and other materials related to crafting that are out of copyright (or getting permission from copyright holders in some cases) in order to share them online. they scan items, clean them up, then make everything available for free!
free things are great, especially when you’re just starting to get into something. like oh, i’m supposed to spend money on this hobby i just picked up 20 minutes ago???
the first time i ended up on the site, i seriously spent hours just trawling through everything. there’s the usual suspects like knitting, crochet, embroidery, but there’s also woodwork, calligraphy, and books on things like how to mount and frame pictures. with cross stitch patterns, they also make modern charts with the dmc colour codes available.
links to their webbed site and instagram:
behold, a glorious cat cross stitch pattern (link goes to antique pattern library page):
[image id: Multicolour charted cross stitch design of a cat sitting on a red pillow with tassels, holding a green ball]
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there's a fine line between being wary of manipulation and becoming completely paranoid because you get very close to the realisation that pretty much all human interaction involves doing things we hope will lead to a result we like
this post is about a lot of things. it's about my ex saying it was manipulative to talk to them in a cute voice because that influenced their emotions. it's also about someone on this webbed site saying being funny is "engagement farming". like yeah every single conversation you have is going to be "manipulative" if your standard for that is "did something with the goal of eliciting a response". if that bothers you go live in a hut in the forest and speak only to the trees. I'll be over here manipulating my friends into being happy by giving them compliments
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The longer I exist as a loudly proudly gay man the more I think that cishet men aren't actually attracted to women.
I see these cishet men talking about their instant turn offs and/or red flags and they're such boring and ridiculous things like "takes pictures of her latte" or "owns cat ear headphones" or "has a nose piercing" and I'm out here like if that's the worst woman you can possibly think of then personally I think you just aren't attracted to women.
At least my instant turn offs that are Dude Things are "is an egotistical manchild that doesn't like the word no" and "has a chronic case of useless husband disorder" and "treats the women in his life poorly".
Like I can't imagine not being attracted to someone because he likes to take pictures of his food or because of a piercing or whatever. Really? That's the worst you can think of? Do you even like women? Or do you think that any qualities that make her stand out from the rest (even when these are EXCEEDINGLY common Girl Things) are inherently unattractive because then you have to think about her as though she's more than just a pussy and a pair of boobs.
I'm reminded of that quote where he talks about how gay men love the ugly parts of men as much as they love the pretty parts, and how straight men are threatened by this because it challenges them to love the ugly parts of women, and I don't disagree per say. I just don't think "takes photos of her food" and "dyes her hair bright colors" fall under the "ugly parts of women" qualifier. I think that's more just "being a human person" and for whatever reason straight men who act like this have a hard time conceptualizing that the women they're attracted to are human or people.
i think you're on to something here but i'd also like to suggest that cishet men voluntarily shoot themselves in the dick over and over again when they engage in misogyny to signal to others how superior they (individually and as a class) are to women. as you noted, these men are saying they hate women who are behaving like women. because hating women is the easiest virtue of male supremacy.
but like you said, it's pretty hard to love and be loved by women when your entire gender identity as well as social standing rests on hating women. you're trading heterosexual love (getting a girlfriend) for homosocial approbation (looking cool) and so you end up increasingly bitter and lonely because the more viciously you alienate yourself from femininity the more masculine you become and the less possible a heterosexual relationship is to achieve.
these men console each other with increasingly abstract ideals and theories of what women are and how they can be earned (as objects, of course, the feminine rendered safe to enjoy only by utter subordination) but it comes down to the simple irreconcilability of hating the very people they're supposed to love, or loving the people they're supposed to hate.
so yeah. these dudes don't actually like women and can't figure out that's their whole damn problem. sucks to suck, lol.
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frozenknight
If you don’t like fat girls, nobody needs to hear your opinion on anything.