Like, as in the Reconstruction era after the Civil War.
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All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I **** like you wanna ****, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.
Personally, I'd send Federal troops into the South, forbid former Confederates from voting, and set up massive programs for helping minority races while taxing the plantation owners for it.
__________________ Introduce a little government. Upset the established gangs, and everything becomes order...
Democracy is the very definition of awesome.
I would have confiscated all land owned by slave owners and distributed it to the slaves they owned. I would also not allow states to discriminate based on race in government issues.
They became the problem with black codes and Jim Crow laws. But yeah, private organizations like those who committed violence should have been put down by government soldiers at the start of hostilities.
They were a problem before that. One needs only to look at the voting statistics immediately after blacks got voting rights, and you could see how violence caused an immediate and severe drop even before there were any "legal" measures passed to deny the vote.
Grant sent troops to combat it, too little too late, and he should have declared them as enemy combatants as well, which would have meant they wouldn't have had to go through hung southern civilian courts but military court instead.
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