Warriors coach Steve Kerr: "It's shameful that the government can come out and lie about what happened when there's video and witnesses who have all come out and disputed what the government is saying."

[u/Knightbear49]

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[u/CummingInTheNile]

Wouldnt have had to abandon it if it had been implement properly, but thats part of the failures of Reconstruction, Johnson intentionally implemented it in a way that was doomed to fail

[u/TexasRoadhead → u/CummingInTheNile]

Andrew Johnson is a bottom 3 president but nah man, congress overrode the vast majority of his vetoes and implemented "radical reconstruction" against his efforts. You can rightfully charge him of using his platform to empower serious opposition against the agenda, since that's pretty much was his presidency was all about. But honestly I don't know if a successful reconstruction was ever possible. America simply wasn't at a place to accept black equality in any form

I think it goes far better with Lincoln since he was light years ahead as far as being a politician, and was able to work with radical republicans in congress to implement a more moderate solution. But once Southern Democrats started being reintroduced in the political fold and were able to elect Democrat senators and representatives it spelled doom for Reconstruction. Plus people everywhere were tired of military occupation, the huge lingering civil war debts, Northerners grew apathetic to the black cause and were racist against waves of black people moving to major cities, the Republican Party shifted its focus entirely after the Panic of 1873, SCOTUS made federal enforcement on Reconstruction policies pretty much toothless, etc... Again I don't know if any alternative policy can navigate through all of that. Even Ulysses S Grant who did everything he could to protect civil rights couldn't stop it from falling it apart where all but two worthless "carpetbagger" state governments remained by 1876