You are picking and choosing a few individuals, and not addressing four million, whose ignorance we are dealing with today.
And to compare whites who didn’t go to school, with blacks in those days, is ridiculous - the whites had solid backgrounds embedded in their white culture, which made up greatly for any lack of formal education.
You seem to have a real problem with ‘affirmative action’. I don’t blame you - it’s always been a mistake. But it was an attempt to remedy the very original problems that I have been trying to explain.
I think Shelby Foote was an extremely thoughtful person who was able, in an extraordinary way, to see both sides of an issue.
You seem to be full of personal resentment about something that I can’t figure out - and I’m really not interested in communicating any further with someone who’s first line in a communication is a juvenile
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Good Night, Sir.
I posted hard, cold FACTS, which unlike you, substantiated with many, diverse examples.
During the Civil war, and directly after it, in NYC, alone ( forget at the moment the rural children and one room school houses, in the midwest, which had WHITE "children" as old as 14, still doing class work on the third grade level, if that...IF they were still even going to school), there were many children ( mostly orphans and run-aways ) who did NOT even go to school and who could NOT read the papers they hawked.
You want more examples of well educated negros? Okay...I'll post a long list, IF you swear, IN YOUR OWN BLOOD, that you shall look them all up AND read both books I listed earlier. So let me know if you shall and I'll post the list; it'll be extensive.
The ignorance, that we are dealing with today, re ghetto cretins, IS SELF INFLICTED!
Not only was the marriage rate, of negros, higher than that of whites, from the end of slavery, through the 1950s/early '60s, there wasn't the moronic "learning/doing well in school is only for whites" crap!
I bet you just LOVE Ken Burns biased, sometimes spurious psuedo documentaries too. Bet you imagine him to be just "brilliant"; as you do FOOTE, who appears in a vast, nay, insane portion of Burn's Civil War docu-propaganda.
You have almost NO knowledge of what you're attempting to discuss and your one and ONLY source has NOT been lionized by all; many have stated that his *cough* "histories" not only left out a LOT, but also left much to be desired.
You appear to have not only great disdain for FACTUAL history, all of the factual points I have made, and me. You also IGNORED every single point I made. WHY IS THAT? I respond to your posts, with clear, coherent, and cogent points.