On Aug 19, 9:05*am, Kevin Alfred Strom
wrote:


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Of the terrible days of the so-called Reconstruction period, Wilson
wrote:

"It was a menace to society itself that the negroes should thus of a
sudden be set free and left without tutelage or restraint.... The
country filled with vagrants, looking for pleasure and gratuitous
fortune. Idleness bred want, as always, and the vagrants turned
thieves or inopportune beggars. The tasks of ordinary labor stood
untouched; the idlers grew insolent, dangerous; nights went
anxiously by, for fear of riot and incendiary fire.


[...]


Sounds just like large areas of Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis,
Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlanta, etc. LOL!