A lot of The Discourse from the smartest boys on the internet and others fails to confront the reality of, well, anything, instea of the comforting "way things oughta be" they imagine things are.This is how it introduces Reconstruction: through the gosh-darn sticktoitiveness of Francis Tillou Nicholls, the ex-Confederate "redeemer" who crushed black political rights. pic.twitter.com/mOpWVJUZob
— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) June 14, 2021
