You white males were always the problem in America
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Almost the entirety of this article is bullshit.
Most of the NYC Draft Riots were not directed at blacks. Blacks were targeted by Irishmen, but this is mostly for the ethnic animosity of freed-blacks being imported as a voting block into NYC, introducing competition for Irish immigrant labor. Then there was major 'nativist' vs. Irishmen conflict; which was also a Catholic-Protestant division. Then on top of that it was also a rebellion regarding corrupt politics and Tammany Hall.
Blacks weren't even the central reason for the rioting; they were an afterthought. it's called the Draft Riots for a reason. They weren't attacking blacks because blacks weren't being drafted... NOBODY wanted to be drafted.