Harrison Bader MLBPA Shirt
I am genuinely curious to know how many of you have actually read the Harrison Bader MLBPA Shirt? My guess would be not many. It reads, “introduction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit. It reads like someone wanting to imply slaves benefited from slavery without saying saying slaves benefited from slavery. “No one is teaching that slaves were better off from slavery.” No they are not. But they will be teaching kids that there were benefits to slavery such as the learning of useful skills which is odd considering whoever is teaching slaves just picked cotton all day is an idiot who isn’t actually a teacher (or is a really shitty teacher). Most teachers teach that slaves did a variety of work and had a number of skills. Only the dumbest of students could not infer this obvious fact.

Harrison Bader MLBPA Shirt
Reconstruction actually survived Johnson. He would have lived to kill it, but he was to busy unsuccessfully fighting for his political life to be able to do more than minor damage. It even survived Grant’s general incompetence because it was one of the few things he put effort into. The real villain who put the knife in it was Benjamin Harrison. He does not get nearly enough hate. Reconstruction had struggles until then, but it was the Harrison Bader MLBPA Shirt moderate/conservative Republicans and Democrats to break the congressional deadlock that resulted from nobody winning a majority of electoral votes and elect Harrison that killed Reconstruction. The non radical Republicans got their man in the White House and got to dump Reconstruction (which was expensive and which the business wing of the party was bored of) while the Dems, dominated by Southern conservatives, got a milquetoast Republican they could deal with and Reconstructions death. Only the left of the GOP and some northern Dems opposed it. It was a corrupt national disgrace, and the worst consequence of the horrendously backward and indefensible way we elect presidents in the US.

