VERY GOOD post. VERY GOOD my friend.
Yes, its the sad truth that history favors the victors. No one ever mentions the first black union army who were not given rifles but actually armed with some fucking spears of all things and made to engage a Confederate Army. Even when they actually established the 54th Volunteer union army with rifles and uniforms, they were forced to pillage and plunder towns like Darien, Georgia of their valuables for the Union Generals so they can sell them off for profit and then to top it all off, made them launch a front frontal assault at Fort Wagner in broad daylight as cannon fodder. Lets not forget that they were paid 7 dollars a month compared to the standard pay of 13 dollars and also charged them for clothing and meals.
Abraham Lincoln got a better deal on black people than the South ever did on the slaves. 200,000 black soldiers for 75% off the retail price.
That's why I said I'd head west if I was born in that era. I'd take my chances with Native Americans and the wilderness. North or South, a black man would have had no rights whatsoever and was getting exploited anywhere he went.
America's history is full of oxymorons and purposely left out ommissions. The fact that Jesse Owens could stay in hotels and eat freely in restaurants in Nazi Germany, gets a handshake from Hitler and a commerative plaque then goes back home, gets no telegrams or thanks from Franklin Roosevelt and rides the freight elevator to his own reception party and is only allows to stay for 10 minutes to give a speech and told to beat it. Lets not forget that right after he won all those medals, he got the Joe Louis treatment of being prosecuted for tax evasion for not paying the taxes on the prize money and purses that he gave to the United States Government to support the war effort. He spent most of his time afterwards running a dry cleaning business and working as a gas station attendant. Fight against Nazi's and pump gas and ring up candy bars and cigarettes for the rest of your life. The stress from all of that made him take up chain smoking which is why he died of lung cancer
Its sad that schools teach a socially bias and false history of the United States. That's why I took it upon myself as a kid to go to the library and actually read about things and not believe everything you hear and I'm a lot smarter person for doing so. You cannot simply take what you hear as truth, you have to sometimes dig deep to get the real truth.
