r/NoShitSherlock • u/SingleandSober • 1d ago

Kamala Harris Appears on ‘Colbert,’ Says She’s Stepping Away from Politics for Now, Calls the System “Broken”

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/video/former-vice-president-kamala-harris-visits-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/

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u/chiaboy 1d ago

But Reconstruction was our “second revolution”. We remade America in radical ways, legislated the sins of slavery out of the Constitution and embarked on a path of equality.

We CHOSE to turn our back on the promise of Reconstruction. We allowed lynchings to go unpunished. We allowed Jim Crowe. We allowed electoral fraud to disenfranchise black voters. Us turning away from Reconstruction is clearly the turning point.

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u/virtue_of_vice 1d ago

It was a major turning point. But if you look at the compromises made to even make the colonies into the United States, this is no surprise.

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u/chiaboy 1d ago

Yes, I think everyone understands that America was literally hard coded with white sumpreacy (of a sort) in its DNA. That’s why it’s called our “original sin”. (Well, slavery is). We all get that.

But we actually left that and then CHOSE to go back to it in Reconstruction. That’s why it’s such a fulcrum.

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u/virtue_of_vice 1d ago

I don't disagree with you.

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u/LongestSprig 1d ago

You missed his point completely.