Social Thoughts on "Heritage" Americans/Canadians?

[Nizam al-Mulk]

You also forgot to mention that we brought them, death, exploitation and displacement.

No shit they should be able to enjoy the wonders of modern technology - it's the least we can do after quite literally taking their homes, stealing their children and forcefully converting them to Christianity.

I have done extensive research in Canada's indigenous communities - for three years, I basically lived on reserves in remote northern communities. You know nothing about these people, their history, or just how badly we damaged their communities. Stop talking about things you don't understand.

They murdered one another quite well, the white man did not have to teach that.

 

[Deorum]

Antecedent Americans.

 

[Deorum]

Now we're talking about the Murderer's Row of American politicians who have been buried under scholastic lukewarm uncontroversial nonsense. Men who believed in more than just the words, but the ideas of what the U.S. should have been. The abolitionists who didnt just want an end to the institution, but would have had a new Constititon had they had it fully the way the wanted.

Grant was one of them. Thaddeus was the next one I ever read about. Also John Bingham who was one of the authors of the Reconstruction Amendments as well. Benjamins Wade and Butler. Hannibal Hamlin. John Fremont. Henry Winter Davis. Charles Sumner. Schuyler Colfax.

THESE are the men who truly cucked the Confederacy where the Liberal Republicans wanted to grant pardons and make nice almost immediately because they wanted to pursue Empirical presence. These were the men who were adamant about the treatment of ANYONE within U.S. borders, Citizen or otherwise. These men along with plenty of female abolitionists and black citizens who leveraged their own freedom even before the National Patriots were willing to grant it are the heroes we should look up to IMHO.

The "power couple" () equivalent in the Senate to Thaddeus Stevens and John Bingham in the House were Lyman Trumbull and Charles Sumner. Trumbull was the author of both the 13th Amendment and Civil Rights Act of 1866; Sumner drafted the Civil Rights Act of 1875 but actually opposed to the official ratified version of the 15th Amendment. Why? Because he wanted it to include women's suffrage for one, and also correctly predicted that former slaver states would find "creative and invidious workarounds" to bypass its intent, i.e., using literacy tests, poll taxes, and property requirements.

There is no heroic history of America.

He's talking about American mythology

There is.

This is heroic history, and the men responsible for it are full-blown American heroes, full stop. There was virtually nothing ambiguous about their intentions. Lincoln also enacted two of the most transformative laws in the history of the country with the Homestead Act of 1862 (including black men, single women, and immigrants after the CRA of 1866 + 14A) and Pacific Railway Act of 1862, which not only revolutionized the US economy by connecting it from coast to coast, but was deliberately constructed entirely through a northern route (Union territory). Both carried the additional intention of preventing the expansion of slavery and cutting off the Confederacy.

The Emancipation Proclamation, officially Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States president Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War. The Proclamation changed the legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the secessionist Confederate states from enslaved to free. As soon as slaves escaped the control of their enslavers, either by fleeing to Union lines or through the advance of federal troops, they were permanently free.

The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The Amendment was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House of Representatives on January 31, 1865, ratified by the states on December 6, 1865, and officially proclaimed on December 18, 1865. It was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted following the American Civil War.

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was the first United States civil rights federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. It was mainly intended to protect the rights of black persons of African descent born in or brought to the United States. The Act declared that any citizen has the same right that a white citizen has to make and enforce contracts, sue and be sued, give evidence in court, and inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property. The Act was vetoed by U.S. President Andrew Johnson. In April 1866, Congress again passed the bill, and Johnson again vetoed it, but a two-thirds majority in each chamber overrode him to become law without presidential signature.

The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as a response to issues affecting freed slaves following the American Civil War. The Amendment's first section includes the Citizenship Clause, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause. The Citizenship Clause directly overturned the Supreme Court's 1857 landmark decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which held that black people of African descent, whether enslaved or free, were not citizens of the United States, had no rights as such, and could not sue in federal court.

The Privileges or Immunities Clause prevents states from impeding federal rights, such as the freedom of movement. The Due Process Clause builds on the Fifth Amendment to prohibit all levels of government from depriving people of life, liberty, or property without substantive and procedural due process. Additionally, the Due Process Clause supports incorporation doctrine, by which the Bill of Rights has been applied to and made enforceable against the states. The Equal Protection Clause requires each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people, including non-citizens, within its jurisdiction.

The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government or any state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

The Enforcement Act of 1870, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1870 was a United States federal law that empowers the President to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. The act was passed by the United States Congress during the Reconstruction Era to combat attacks on the voting rights of African Americans from state officials and violent groups like the Ku Klux Klan.

The Enforcement Act of 1871, also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, or Civil Rights Act of 1871, was an Act of Congress intended to combat the paramilitary vigilantism of the Ku Klux Klan. The statute made various acts committed by private persons federal offenses, including conspiring to deprive citizens of their rights to hold office, serve on juries, or enjoy the equal protection of law. The Act authorized the President to deploy federal troops to counter terrorist groups and suspend the writ of habeas corpus to make arrests without charge.

The Civil Rights Act of 1875, sometimes called the Force Act, was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction era in response to civil rights violations against African Americans. The bill was passed by the 43rd United States Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1875. The act was designed to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights, providing for equal treatment in public accommodations and public transportation, as well as prohibiting exclusion from jury service.

 

[Deorum]

They may even be Top 10 material, @Sinister. The fact that Sumner's bill was struck down as Unconstitutional only a few years later in 1883 by unabashedly evil SCOTUS is equal parts heartbreaking and infuriating. There never should've needed to be a mid-20th century Civil Rights Movement.

Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1851 until his death in 1874. Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading American advocate for the abolition of slavery, and after the war he was a key figure in the Reconstruction era, during which he and other Radical Republicans successfully fought to end slavery and ensure basic rights for Black Americans. He continued advocating for racial equality until his death, lobbying in his final days for his civil rights bill – the Civil Rights Act of 1875 – which later served as a model for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Historians credit Sumner with coining the phrase "equality before the law," which he first used as part of an early attempt to integrate Boston's public school system.

Lyman Trumbull (October 12, 1813 – June 25, 1896) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician who represented the state of Illinois in the United States Senate from 1855 to 1873. Trumbull was a leading abolitionist attorney and key political ally to Abraham Lincoln and authored several landmark pieces of reform as chair of the Judiciary Committee during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, including the Confiscation Acts, which created the legal basis for the Emancipation Proclamation; the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished chattel slavery; and the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which led to the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.