Sure; 150 years ago Union generals had no idea what Washington DC intended to do with the freed slaves that started following the armies around the South - and we still haven’t figured out what to do with them. One thing is certain: Assimilation has failed miserably. Too many speak an unintelligible language (oral only - not written), wave red/black/green flags, and overall contribute little to nothing while consuming much.
Conservative saissez-faire after freeing them would probably have fared the best. You want to go back to Africa, we’ll pay your ticket. You want to stay, look there are churches all around who will help you engage in better circumstances.
It is this blankety blank GAME PLAYING by white Democrats (mostly) that has kept the wound rubbed sore, infected, and bleeding.
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But white southern Democrats never really did repent, which would have been fundamentally an attitude towards God, not even primarily towards the freedmen. This was a God size issue and there were devil-size dodges engaged in, instead.
A genuinely believing church movement might even yet manage to embrace away the worst of so called “BLM.” But it’s going to have to remember for Whose sake it is being done.