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In reply to the discussion: Jim Crow is alive, well, and still fucking up America [View all]brush
(53,977 posts)They were let off the hook and eventually came back with a vengeance after the Union ended reconstruction too soon for restoration of the region's economy (racial politics was the reason for the abrupt ending).
The KKK terrorists instituted their century-long reign of terror on African Americans, the daughters of the confederacy put up the statutes of traitor generals all over the south to remind black people to stay "in their place," share cropping and prison plantations literally re-instituted an open, neo-slavery.
The traitors were not held to account for their treachery at all as the racism is still flourishing as evidenced by the wholesale vote suppression we all just saw.
After the Nazi's defeat in WWll there were trials and executions and outlawing of Nazi paraphernalia. Germany is now a good world citizen which doesn't continue to honor Nazi war criminals.