There exists among us today those who promote division within our culture as they yearn for a return to some mythical conception of the confederacy (let us not forget, a rogue state dedicated to preserving the institution of slavery under the guise of state sovereignty) while dreaming of a ‘second reconstruction’. To them we might inquire: Do you envision one replete with the traditions of enslavement of fellow human beings and their life-long subjugation, the practice of serial rape, and the hanging of those who might dare to resist their oppressor? Or perhaps you envision a milder form in which one class of people is merely segregated from society, denied full participation in its administration, made subject to untenable living conditions, taught in sub-standard schools, caught in the grips of generational poverty, rendered as superfluous to the mainstream, and otherwise condemned to a state of hopelessness? Either way, your dark and backward vision is neither compatible with nor will be tolerated by a future society that will have long since bid farewell to its regrettable past and your evil intentions for its revival. You will be better advised to begin the ‘second reconstruction’ with the implementation of reparations!
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