Reconstruction Didn't Fail, It Was Sabotaged | Kidada E. Williams | TMR

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  • @portmantologist
    @portmantologist Рік тому +25

    Sam speaks about being embarrassed at how revelatory this idea is, and that's how I felt when MR discussed the book How the South Won the Civil War. Just hearing the title really struck me, because I'd never really thought about it this way, but the South really DID win the civil war in a lot of ways. Black people were no longer slaves, but they certainly weren't free, and the Confederacy persisted in all but name through to the present day. The fact that the civil war was fought to either end or sustain slavery has been heavily diluted in the public consciousness, due in no small part to the influence that Confederate states hold over the education system, and the right still talks about "states' rights", which was always a racist con.

    • @warlordofbritannia
      @warlordofbritannia Рік тому +1

      The South didn’t win the war, but they won the peace.
      Despite the best efforts of Grant and his administration Reconstruction had been fatally weakened by Johnson, even without accounting for the inevitable wavering of Northern determination to enforce equality.

    • @riikki___
      @riikki___ Рік тому

      i think the thing is though, though the north had plenty of radical and abolitionist support they're arc ultimately was towards wage based capitalism rather than slavery based. The south, and the global racist movement in general, won in many ways but the destiny of black people being an underclass of labourers in the cities was always a goal for the north (not to mention with slavery itself still existing in the penal system) - as they represented a shift in the dynamics of the emerging american ruling class

    • @portmantologist
      @portmantologist Рік тому

      @@riikki___ Certainly a fair point. There are no heroes in this story, but it's not hard to say which side was less wrong.

    • @riikki___
      @riikki___ Рік тому

      @@portmantologist oh of course, the north had a huge national and international backing of abolistionists amd radicals - but its interesting to consider that a lot of them, even Lincoln himself i believe, were aware of and maybe concerned with the rising 'wage slavery' stemming from the burgeoning industrial revolution.
      all to say i suppose is, it was, like many civil wars are, based in economic terms more than political

  • @marcwa74
    @marcwa74 Рік тому +4

    I’ve been waiting for you guys to upload this interview from the first half of the show. Great interview!

  • @kushclarkkent6669
    @kushclarkkent6669 Рік тому +11

    Thanks for regularly having people on to talk about Black issues. That's a small thing I really appreciate about this channel.

    • @afauxican_american
      @afauxican_american Рік тому +1

      It’s not small, it’s huge. These types of conversations are massively important. Majority Report out here doing the lords work.

    • @kushclarkkent6669
      @kushclarkkent6669 Рік тому +1

      @@afauxican_american You're right it's massive.

  • @majorlazor5058
    @majorlazor5058 Рік тому +1

    Great Interview. Been waiting for a discussion like this. Thanks for the book recommendation.

  • @Alex_Plante
    @Alex_Plante Рік тому +4

    Great interview and history lesson!

  • @victorjones9951
    @victorjones9951 Рік тому +3

    Reconstruction was succeeding, but Federal government abandoned the effort.
    Marvelous conversation. I'm buying the book .

    • @warlordofbritannia
      @warlordofbritannia Рік тому

      That’s…no, that’s not quite correct. Reconstruction failed due to first Johnson and then fading determination on the part of the Northern public. By 1876, there were a number of court decisions that undid the progress either made or sustained.
      In other words, it was far more than the efforts of the Federal Government-especially considering how hard Grant went to protecting the freedmen. Numerous times he enforced martial law in Southern states, but that could only stave off the inevitable regression.

  • @PhilipRhoadesP
    @PhilipRhoadesP Рік тому +8

    As an Australian, this is more great info for how the USA came to be in its current situation - this was a great addition to my reading of "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn! - thanks so much!

  • @genericamerican7574
    @genericamerican7574 Рік тому +10

    *This is why MR is ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️*
    Listened to this on stream. Excellent interview.

    • @LordeSanctus
      @LordeSanctus Рік тому +1

      Seriously!

    • @Aritul
      @Aritul Рік тому

      I agree. I really enjoy this program's interviews.

  • @BFDT-4
    @BFDT-4 Рік тому +2

    Douglas Blackmon, - Slavery by Another Name...
    James Loewen - The Lies My Teacher Told me, Sundowner Towns.....
    Isabel Wilkerson - The Warmth of Other Suns...
    Kidada E. Williams - They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I (not yet read)
    And now this book, do I ever want to read it! Thank you, Kidada E. Williams.

    • @BFDT-4
      @BFDT-4 Рік тому +1

      BOOK ORDERED!

  • @catherineg6439
    @catherineg6439 Рік тому +2

    Fantastic interview

  • @RiotKurhein
    @RiotKurhein Рік тому +18

    Lincoln's biggest mistake was not executing the confederate leadership and granting condfederate soldiers amnesty. So many problems over the centuries after could have been avoided.

    • @basedtruthpiller7140
      @basedtruthpiller7140 Рік тому +1

      Yes, there wouldn't be any Democrats

    • @alabamaman5994
      @alabamaman5994 Рік тому +1

      There'd be no Democrats

    • @scratchthat2313
      @scratchthat2313 Рік тому +9

      @@alabamaman5994let’s say you had a neo nazi and a kkk member standing in front of you and you had to guess whether they voted for trump or Biden, what would be the most likely answer? 🤔 I’m sure you definitely won’t deflect from the question and answer it honestly like the honorable man you are.

    • @BasedCommunist-jc8bq
      @BasedCommunist-jc8bq Рік тому +3

      @@scratchthat2313 that's easy, given Democrats 100% voting record supporting funding the Azov Battalion and Right Sector.

    • @scratchthat2313
      @scratchthat2313 Рік тому +1

      @@BasedCommunist-jc8bqlet’s say there was a gun pointed at one of your kids and you had to answer honestly… what would your answer be? 😬

  • @imagem812
    @imagem812 Рік тому

    Wow!!!! Super interesting!!! We haven't come very far have we? Can't wait to read the book.

  • @RiotKurhein
    @RiotKurhein Рік тому +9

    Conservatism IS villainy.

    • @basedtruthpiller7140
      @basedtruthpiller7140 Рік тому +2

      Is that why y'all support, fund and run active political cover for the Azov Battalion and Right Sector

    • @scratchthat2313
      @scratchthat2313 Рік тому +2

      @@basedtruthpiller7140why are literal nazis waving swastika flags showing up to drag shows to protest? I wonder who they voted for in the 2020 election? 🤔🤔😂😂😂

    • @alabamaman5994
      @alabamaman5994 Рік тому

      @@scratchthat2313 you mean the flags that were so new they were literally still creased?

    • @alabamaman5994
      @alabamaman5994 Рік тому

      @@scratchthat2313 Given Joe Biden literally gave the eulogy at 2 KKK leaders funerals..... what do you think?

    • @scratchthat2313
      @scratchthat2313 Рік тому +1

      @@alabamaman5994So you’re going to say with a straight face that nazis and kkk members voted for Joe Biden?! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 🤡

  • @taliswomanartist8028
    @taliswomanartist8028 Рік тому +1

    GREAT WORK ...invaluable insights 👑❤️⭐️💎...💐💐💐..🙏🏾👏🏾

    • @alabamaman5994
      @alabamaman5994 Рік тому +1

      Sam 'SS' Seder actively runs political cover for the Azov Battalion and Right Sector.

  • @almo7193
    @almo7193 Рік тому

    Great interview!

  • @leslieb2971
    @leslieb2971 Рік тому

    Sam, Thank you for teaching black history!

    • @basedtruthpiller7140
      @basedtruthpiller7140 Рік тому +4

      Jon Stewart literally gave the Azov Battalion an award

    • @genericamerican7574
      @genericamerican7574 Рік тому

      He is platforming an educator. That is why MR is ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

  • @UrbaNSpiel
    @UrbaNSpiel Рік тому +3

    I might get the book

  • @Karamazov9
    @Karamazov9 Рік тому

    That story about the Tutson family was horrific

  • @brandon8667
    @brandon8667 Рік тому +1

    20:16
    The word Sam is looking for is unconventional war.
    It was driving me crazy so I have to shout it into the void (youtube comment section)

  • @norikadolmy7274
    @norikadolmy7274 Рік тому

    Remembering also that the rapid industrialization on northern US states was fed by cheap cotton grown by slaves in southern states

  • @T.K...
    @T.K... Рік тому +4

    Another book added to the list. Why must the MR cost me so much money?

  • @davidgriffin9247
    @davidgriffin9247 Рік тому +10

    This book is DEFINITELY banned in florida as a "woke attack on history"

    • @basedtruthpiller7140
      @basedtruthpiller7140 Рік тому +5

      Like how progressives banned Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach?

    • @hsmd4533
      @hsmd4533 Рік тому +1

      As it should be

    • @scratchthat2313
      @scratchthat2313 Рік тому +3

      @@basedtruthpiller7140don’t you mean “Jack and the giant beanstalk?” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @BasedCommunist-jc8bq
      @BasedCommunist-jc8bq Рік тому +1

      @@scratchthat2313 DAILY REMINDER that J0D Artiste, Tara Nolus, Scratchat and Soulnife spent more than an hour desperately arguing that 0.0329% of 75 million is 'at least 2 million' while hooting and hollering like it was some sort of dunk... at 1 point they even asked why I didn't seem to 'understand calculators exist'
      Reminder that 3 of the 4 had previously claimed to have 'multiple science degrees' and would still right now be making this claim were it not for some of their fellow comrades finally putting them out of their misery.

    • @scratchthat2313
      @scratchthat2313 Рік тому +1

      @@BasedCommunist-jc8bqHahahaha! The only thing you have is desperately trying to include me in a conversation I wasn’t involved in. I can understand the attempt, since I’ve owned you in every exchange we’ve ever had. Keep coping and seething, “data analyst” 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @melissah8415
    @melissah8415 Рік тому +2

    Wish Sam had allowed Kidada to speak more. He has an expert on and he spends time explaining the topic. Why not have the expert explain it?

    • @leahunverferth8247
      @leahunverferth8247 4 місяці тому

      Yes then he stumbled through it all. Would have enjoyed her speaking more too

  • @rasheedsanders1067
    @rasheedsanders1067 Рік тому +1

    While I have my father's last name I am a blood relative of the Tutson family. That story chills and angers me every time I hear it.

  • @nicholasrecord6502
    @nicholasrecord6502 Рік тому

    Destroying Iraq I just learned destroyed what was once Mesopotamia.

  • @williamking3413
    @williamking3413 7 місяців тому

    Great title. Reconstruction should have succeeded, but white supremacy was to stubborn.

  • @KevinColeman751
    @KevinColeman751 Рік тому

    All these comments 😂arguments about who is more of a nazi .
    How about the argument for repair. Wait for it been over 100yrs now .. status quo. 2pac: " fuc all yall "

  • @basedtruthpiller7140
    @basedtruthpiller7140 Рік тому +7

    Jon Stewart literally gave the Azov Battalion an award.

    • @SAVarXX
      @SAVarXX Рік тому +1

      hey man, about that cheeseburger shop thing the other day, what was that?

    • @basedtruthpiller7140
      @basedtruthpiller7140 Рік тому +1

      @@SAVarXX what's your favorite thing about the Azov Battalion?
      Why do y'all love them so much?

    • @SAVarXX
      @SAVarXX Рік тому +1

      @@basedtruthpiller7140 Its their love of Cheeseburger Shops

    • @basedtruthpiller7140
      @basedtruthpiller7140 Рік тому +3

      @@SAVarXX so that's why y'all required people show government issued ID to enter a cheeseburger store....

    • @Acce323
      @Acce323 Рік тому +1

      @@basedtruthpiller7140 Hey Aaron what happened with Paxton?

  • @jayplay8869
    @jayplay8869 Рік тому +4

    We live in that dead society. And can’t even imagine a rebirth at this point.

    • @alabamaman5994
      @alabamaman5994 Рік тому +4

      What's your favorite thing about the Azov Battalion?

    • @jdee3421
      @jdee3421 Рік тому

      @@alabamaman5994 Their wolfsangel tattoos are stylish, but understated.

    • @sailordaigurren8225
      @sailordaigurren8225 Рік тому +1

      ​@alabamaman5994 the part where they're negligible to the overall identity and quality of the Ukrainian people.

    • @jayplay8869
      @jayplay8869 Рік тому

      @@alabamaman5994 that they would probably let you and others like you in.

  • @letsgobrandon9867
    @letsgobrandon9867 Рік тому +6

    DAILY REMINDER Bernie Sanders LITERALLY signed the checks that fund the Azov Battalion and Right Sector

    • @SAVarXX
      @SAVarXX Рік тому

      Whats a Cheeseburger Shop?

    • @basedtruthpiller7140
      @basedtruthpiller7140 Рік тому +1

      @@SAVarXX Why does AOC love the Azov Battalion so much?

    • @SAVarXX
      @SAVarXX Рік тому +1

      @@basedtruthpiller7140 They know all the best cheeseburger shops of course

    • @basedtruthpiller7140
      @basedtruthpiller7140 Рік тому +5

      @@SAVarXX ahhhhh..... so that's why y'all wanted everyone to show ID to enter a cheeseburger store, keep out the 'undesirables' amirite?

    • @Acce323
      @Acce323 Рік тому

      @@basedtruthpiller7140 Aaron are talking about your friend in Allen?

  • @BrizzyMo
    @BrizzyMo 4 місяці тому

    Yankee Empire propaganda.

  • @simo3873
    @simo3873 Рік тому +7

    It's astounding how distinctly recognizable these enemy's of civil rights are in our "modern age". It also illustrates how outrageously ludicrous and brazenly dishonest it is to claim that America is currently "colorblind" and that all this is "ancient history". It is so abundantly clear the same exact mentality is still with us and still holds immense power in our society. The labels may have changed but the people truly haven't.

    • @beautifultrouble-vx4zj
      @beautifultrouble-vx4zj Рік тому +1

      That's why AOC and Bernie Sanders support the Azov Battalion

    • @scratchthat2313
      @scratchthat2313 Рік тому

      @@beautifultrouble-vx4zjcan you tell me which side are the literal nazis protesting drag shows on? Come on you can do it.

  • @basedtruthpiller7140
    @basedtruthpiller7140 Рік тому +5

    WHY IS the Majority Report running active cover for the Azov Battalion?
    I mean... I know this channel doesn't explicitly say 'wh.i.tes o.nly' but everyone knows what's up....

    • @Acce323
      @Acce323 Рік тому +2

      Aaron Why is Donald Trump crying about Paxton?

    • @BasedCommunist-jc8bq
      @BasedCommunist-jc8bq Рік тому +1

      @@Acce323 who?

    • @scratchthat2313
      @scratchthat2313 Рік тому

      @@BasedCommunist-jc8bqSo, which account got banned, mr. “My accounts haven’t been banned in months”? 😂😂😂😂

    • @Acce323
      @Acce323 Рік тому +1

      @@BasedCommunist-jc8bq Paxton the attorney general in Texas

    • @letsgobrandon9867
      @letsgobrandon9867 Рік тому

      @@Acce323 and I care why?