Rights without responsibilities are meaningless. The biggest failure of reconstruction in America was not racism but failing to impart self sustainability to newly freed black citizens.
It was the wishes of some of the founding fathers as well. They believed that the best way to learn freedom was to farm your own land and be self sustaining. If you want to blow a liberals mind show them the interviews of former slaves where they say that they had it better as a slave because food was never a question and they were given housing.
Rights without responsibilities are meaningless. The biggest failure of reconstruction in America was not racism but failing to impart self sustainability to newly freed black citizens.
It was the wishes of some of the founding fathers as well. They believed that the best way to learn freedom was to farm your own land and be self sustaining. If you want to blow a liberals mind show them the interviews of former slaves where they say that they had it better as a slave because food was never a question and they were given housing.
Lincoln was pushing for them to all be shipped to Liberia. The vote in congress occured after he was killed and I believe it lost by 1 vote.