Friday, June 30, 2017
CIVIL WAR AFTERMATH A USEFUL PASSAGE
"The large Republican majority in Congress was determined to preserve the results of the war by either reducing the representation of the Southern states, or by enfranchising the freedmen. The 14th amendment was written to do the first: it did not require Negro suffrage, as it was then called, but specifically promised to reduce the Congressional representation of states so as to reflect the number of voters they enfranchised. When the southern states, supported by President Johnson, refused to ratify the amendment, the Republican Congressional majority--which grew even larger in the 1866 elections--passed its own Reconstruction plan, putting the South under military rule and insisting that the southern states enfranchise Negroes in new Constitutions before they could send representatives to Congress again. Negro suffrage, sadly, was a measure well in advance of even northern opinion, and the radicals realized by 1867 that it had to be put into the Constitution in order to impose it upon the South. This the 15th Amendment did." DK
Negro suffrage was not well in advance of Northern opinion.
It was directly contrary to the whole purpose of the Northern cause in the Civil War, according to the voters.
President Johnson was following Lincoln's plan, which had not included negro suffrage.
Here is DK, an ad hoc Soviet asset, arguing that the Radical Republicans were morally right to enfranchise the freed negroes, and thus turn them into a legitimate, large, and hostile minority within the South, and an unassimilable minority within the US.
The Soviets were disappointed at first when MLK later came along, because he represented to them at the time a defeat of the militant racial hostility they had preferred.
They later recognized that MLK was their most effective agent for undermining American society from within by using liberal white stooges as advocates for negro rights, broad dissent and unrest, and for socialism, epitomized in the New Left, and the Revisionist Left, DK's left Hegelian ideology, as he acknowledges.
No better Soviet line for this history exists now than this.
Here is DK, an ad hoc Soviet asset, arguing that the Radical Republicans were morally right to enfranchise the freed negroes, and thus turn them into a legitimate, large, and hostile minority within the South, and an unassimilable minority within the US.
The Soviets were disappointed at first when MLK later came along, because he represented to them at the time a defeat of the militant racial hostility they had preferred.
They later recognized that MLK was their most effective agent for undermining American society from within by using liberal white stooges as advocates for negro rights, broad dissent and unrest, and for socialism, epitomized in the New Left, and the Revisionist Left, DK's left Hegelian ideology, as he acknowledges.
No better Soviet line for this history exists now than this.
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