TIL all white men got to vote just 14 years before black men

Yup its pretty much been even steven besides those 14 years.

After federal troops pulled out of the south, Southern whites used intimidation and violence to deter many blacks from voting . This included lynching , castrations and other vile acts. It was this way that whites where able to regain much of the political power that had been stripped after loosing the civil war. without federal troops to enforce free and fair elections , whites were able to keep blacks marginalized for many decades after reconstruction.
Reconstruction turned out be a huge failure for blacks. also whites forced blacks to pass ridiculously difficult “literacy tests” that most whites could not even pass. These tests can be found online. so yes , under federal law blacks were granted the right to vote but southern whites pulled out all the stops to fix elections in their favor. When the confederates got back political power positions like Sheriff and Judge, in small towns there was not really anyone to file greivence with. Many blacks had to return to their former lives of indentured servitude as sharecroppers.

To piggy back off this topic, I get a laugh when I hear some liberal say “The Founding Fathers didn’t intend for people to have machine guns when they wrote the second amendment. They only knew about the musket.”

Well, if we’re using that line of thought, they didn’t intend for Shamekwa from the projects to vote either.

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Poor/non-land owning white men weren't all allowed to vote until 1856, and black men got to in 1870.

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Absurdly facile sentence is absurdly facile.

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TIL all white men got to vote just 14 years before black men

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That's incredibly misleading, but you knew that already.

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From 1890 to 1910, most black voters in the South were effectively disenfranchised by new state constitutions and state laws incorporating such obstacles as poll taxes and discriminatory literacy tests, from which white male voters were exempted by grandfather clauses. A system of whites-only primaries and violent intimidation by white groups also suppressed black participation.

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