Historic times: Mississippi may elect first black US Senator since 1860s

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Mike Espy is polling ahead of both Republican challengers for a US Senate seat from Mississippi.

https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/e...-democrats

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/201...nate-race/

https://espyforsenate.com/

[deckeda]

This author was on the radio the other day: https://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-T...0743296281

One of the things he mentioned in passing was how much stronger (and closer to the Constitution) southern states were after the Civil War, for a time. Seeing the possibility of Espy reminded me of that.

The author had asked a classroom of mostly black students about what Reconstruction was, and they responded that Blacks had been put in power but had screwed it up, so whites were soon in control again. This is what they were taught.

Sorry for the threadjack, but in some way it’s kinda related.

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deckeda wrote:
This author was on the radio the other day: https://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-T...0743296281

One of the things he mentioned in passing was how much stronger (and closer to the Constitution) southern states were after the Civil War, for a time. Seeing the possibility of Espy reminded me of that.

The author had asked a classroom of mostly black students about what Reconstruction was, and they responded that Blacks had been put in power but had screwed it up, so whites were soon in control again. This is what they were taught.

Sorry for the threadjack, but in some way it’s kinda related.

Thanks for that. It's incredible what teaching made-up history can do.

The movement to remove confederate statues has helped a lot of people learn what actually went on in Reconstruction and early 20th century.