A century ago the federal government and the military were making concessions to the South in order to promote national reconciliation. Now, they’re making concessions to what they believe are African-American sensibilities in the name of what they believe to be national reconciliation. It’s not going to work, but there may be more continuity between what government was doing then and what it’s doing now than appears to many people.
People in "the south" and people in "the north" WANTED reconciliation.
The present "DIE, woke, cancel culture" crowd don't want reconciliation. They want to kill Whitey and take his stuff.
Yes, they are still trying to con black people into voting for them so that they can keep power and exploit the corruption in our government for their own enrichment, same as it was 160 years ago.
But a lot of black people are waking up and realizing that meaningless gestures do not improve their lives, and certainly the hordes this corrupt government is letting stream through the borders absolutely do not improve their lives.
A lot of people may not be aware of this, but Hispanics and Black people do not mix well. In California, Hispanic gangs are purging neighborhoods of black people by threats, intimidation and finally actual violence.
It is well known that when the Hispanics move in, blacks tend to be forced out, but nobody in California dare object to it because the Hispanic caucus is so powerful there.
But everyone knows about it.
The (Pelosi) House passed a resolution Tuesday to expel Confederate statues from the US Capitol and replace its bust of Roger B. Taney, the chief justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision, with one honoring Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court justice.
The vote was 285 to 120. Sixty-seven Republicans voted with 218 Democrats in support of the bill.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/29/politics/house-vote-confederate-statues/index.html
BS. Maybe the feelings were genuine. You wouldn't know about those.