One more stark statistic the video might have mentioned. The 1898 Louisiana Constitution eliminated voting rules that had enfranchised Black men during Reconstruction. As a result, in a state with over 650,000 Black residents, the number of Black registered voters dropped from 130,000 before the new constitution to just 5,000 by 1900. By 1904, the number dropped to just 1,000.

@gogoskywalkerpayne

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing that information. I'm sure it was similar in many more southern states and continues now with gerrymandering and the "protecting the vote" bogus laws.

@le7mule21

Жыл бұрын

Continuing to sabotage the Negro.

@lyndellmoore1696

Жыл бұрын

wow

@HeyGuy4321

8 ай бұрын

Now dats gangsta

@HeyGuy4321

8 ай бұрын

Grant was Tyrannical

I like how Millennials and Older were essentially taught slavery ended and reconstruction was a success after the civil war. Jim Crow existed but racism was propagated by a small percentage of the population…. People talk a lot about how the country was “founded” but in reality we should reference this time period for how it currently looks.

@corybarrett2394

Жыл бұрын

But Jim Crow and separate but equal came from the South, which by 1876 was almost exclusively run by Democrats. Democrats got that power in the South by disenfranchising blacks with voter intimidation. The three contested states in 1876 were contested, at least in part, due to this voter intimidation (there was also allegations of ballot box stuffing on both sides). President Grant used federal troops so that blacks could vote in 1876. Democrats used other tricks too. For example, because many people couldn't read, ballots contained a picture representing each party (like the donkey and elephant today). The Democrats used a cockerel and the Republicans used a picture of Abraham Lincoln. Each party printed their own ballots and the Democrats actually put Samuel Tilden's name under Lincoln's picture to trick illiterate blacks into voting for Tilden. This video glosses over the fact that these Democrat-run states were the ones who enacted the Grandfather Clauses, poll taxes, and literacy tests. Hayes did agree to remove troops from the South, which solidified Democrat rule and the disenfranchisement of blacks in the South, but shouldn't the blame go to the Democrat-run states who implemented these policies? I do agree though that we should talk more about how Reconstruction shaped the South and the effects of that today. When people wonder why many of the Southern states are poor, they should know that these states were run almost exclusively by Democrats for more than a century. And the reason these states were run by Democrats almost exclusively for more than a century was because they implemented racist laws and used intimidation tactics to keep blacks from voting.

@cherstuewe-portnoff6776

Жыл бұрын

As an "older," I need to tell you that very few people I knew were taught anything at all substantive about slavery and reconstruction, and not many of my generation were happy with what we saw going on, what we were experiencing, then. Many were active in trying to end segregation and other forms of exclusion. We were divided then, and we're divided now. Progress was made, and yes, it barely scratches the surface of what is needed. Still, joys -- seeing my grandchildren take for granted that their friend groups are multi-ethnic; the mix of faces and genders in high places and on the media -- this didn't happen on its own, or overnight. We fought for it. Our legacy is way short of what we wanted it to be, and we are proud at those of you who are continuing the effort. But not all of you are on the same side, either. My young friends, we are all in this together. And we always have been. Fight on.

@jontomas2271

Жыл бұрын

@@cherstuewe-portnoff6776 - Here's a good solution. Pay $50,000 (or more) to parents for every mixed-race child they have. In a couple of hundred years, everyone will be a beautiful shade of light brown - with no tanning! And no more basis for racism.

@Pan_Z

Жыл бұрын

Who was taught that? Every American millennial I know was taught about Reconstruction and Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights movements of the 1950 & 60's. You're outright making up stuff to support your worldview.

@jasonallen3678

Жыл бұрын

You are putting too much trust in those people to changed their ways and it's never happening..

The fact is that the public sentiment toward Reconstruction by 1876 was fatigued, and people were generally over it. Reconstruction, by 1876, was all but over. The Compromise of 1877, formalizing the election of Rutherford B. Hayes and the removal of federal troops from the South was merely a formality and not an abrupt end. The "Compromise" was in name only, as the committee negotiating the Compromise was majority Republican, and accepting the removal of troops was an easy political decision as it went along with public sentiment at the cost of holding on to the office of the Executive. It was a sacrifice only a fool would have turned down.

@mellowrage4892

4 ай бұрын

The military was removed. Civilians were allowed to impliment dejure law, and the lynching began.

Why is this marked "opinion?" None of it is a matter of opinion, it's a matter of fact.

@corybarrett2394

Жыл бұрын

The reason it is marked as opinion is because it heavily misrepresents the facts to make it look like the Democrats weren't the ones responsible for disenfranchising the blacks.

@debralieb5376

Жыл бұрын

Because it's on the opinion page of the Washington Post

@connerclark3678

Жыл бұрын

It’s a very one-sided take on what it implies - that criminal justice is racist by default, or the imagery implying that there’s a direct moral line from those who fought for civil rights to those saying “abortion is healthcare”. One could just as easily write an op-ed saying that slavery depended on the belief that some people aren’t human, and this is the same “logic” used by abortion defenders today.

@fh3652

Жыл бұрын

@@connerclark3678 When you begin talking about oranges... then it goes on to bananas... then well: I hate donkies. Messy soup your train of thoughts.

@robertortiz-wilson1588

5 ай бұрын

​@@connerclark3678 good points.

Unbelievable! So glad you brought this to light. EVERYONE needs to see this video.

@katferguson

Жыл бұрын

This is what MANY are labeling 'woke propaganda' closing their eyes to it, until loud chants rule it 'irrelevant'. 'That's 'in the past', why dredge up the past?' Didn’t MLK, Jr erase all that? Didn't Obama prove the nation isn't racist. To both - NO!!!!!

@corybarrett2394

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, everybody should see how ignorant the Washington Post is when it comes to history.

@lokimsjrrd3451

Жыл бұрын

@@corybarrett2394 Care to explain what was "ignorant" about anything that was portrayed in this video?

@robertortiz-wilson1588

5 ай бұрын

If this is your first time hearing about this then you should just stop because this is not the place to learn history.

What a wake up call I had no idea despite all those years of US history and high school. I never heard any of this.

@corybarrett2394

Жыл бұрын

Be glad you never heard this because it is revisionist history that completely skips over how Democrats were responsible for all of the racist legislation and voter intimidation the video decries.

The Great Betrayal.

@busydem6161

9 күн бұрын

Yep set the country back 100 years. A back door deal between the donkey and the elephant. Which is why I refuse to endorse either party.

Correction to this video: the 15th Amendment prevents all ethnic discrimination by the government in voting, regardless of ethnicity. However, the 15th Amendment was adopted in particular to permit Blacks to vote.

@yvonneplant9434

Жыл бұрын

Black men.

@nickb7220

Жыл бұрын

@@yvonneplant9434 indeed

@foodscrazy9229

Жыл бұрын

Black people

@nickb7220

Жыл бұрын

@@foodscrazy9229 same thing

@peterknupfer6937

Жыл бұрын

The Amendment nowhere refers to ethnicity. It simply prohibits a state from using "race" to deny the vote to a citizen. The state could use literacy tests, grandfather clauses, 8-box laws, and poll tests to restrict access to the ballot.

“He kept the Union together at the expense of Black Americans.” LMAO. Then it isn’t a union, it’s a plantation!

This is the REAL reason behind voter ID laws. It's the latest perpetuation of the voter suppression tactics that were detailed in the video. Oh, and thank you, Mr. Hanks!!!!

@RobS123

Жыл бұрын

I wish the Democratic Party would launch a campaign in states with the Voter ID laws to make it extremely easy and cheap to get an ID for anyone who wants one, and put an end to the discrimination once and for all. I wonder why they don't just do that, to tell the Republicans "So WHAT? Have your little ID requirement. It doesn't prevent people from voting, just adds a minor hurdle".

@td_kdname5197

Жыл бұрын

"This is the REAL reason behind voter ID laws." You are right. It's a stone cold fact that whites have picture IDs in higher numbers than Blacks by 10 to 15 points. If Blacks had IDs in the same percentage of whites you'd have never heard of Voter ID.

@cruzvarela9254

Жыл бұрын

Amen your right we need to wake up.

@cruzvarela9254

Жыл бұрын

@@RobS123 your so correct. That's what republicans and right winger's do that.

@markeasley6149

Жыл бұрын

It's 2023, have an ID if you are a functional adult.

What a great video! I didn't notice at first, but realized halfway through that it was Tom Hanks narrating.

I am so ashamedof this history, and so furious that it continues!

@Rakstawr

Жыл бұрын

Don't be ashamed. Be cognizant and incorporate it into your own personal journey. As a black man, I would rather people feel proud and be aware than ashamed and fearful to offend. God bless America.

@JudgeDredd_

Жыл бұрын

I don’t think there’s anything to be ashamed of, at all. It happened. We learn from it. ✊🏿

@empireofthechangedayandnight

Жыл бұрын

Oh maybe you would also be ashamedof Channon Christian and Hugh Christopher Newsom story that happen January 6, 2007 ? And, more important, do you be also "so furious that it continues!" (c) ...

@corybarrett2394

Жыл бұрын

You should be ashamed that you don't know how historically inaccurate this video is. It tries to blame Hayes for racism and white supremacy when that was entirely the doing of the Democrat Party.

@gogoskywalkerpayne

Жыл бұрын

@@Rakstawr thank you.

That video was factual.

Thank you so much for this

The amendments to the Constitution after the Civil War did NOT confer voting rights on all persons... Only men. A big omission in this great short.

@musicrecordschannel981

Жыл бұрын

That is true, women (both black or white) were not allowed to vote.

@JK-br1mu

Жыл бұрын

Not relevant. Only men could vote before the Civil War, so the key point was extending it to black men too. Women weren't part of the discussion, and aren't relevant here.

@robertortiz-wilson1588

5 ай бұрын

​@musicrecordschannel981 women could vote within the states if the states allowed it. That was the balance. The vast majority of women liked that at the time. Still liked it in 1919.

@wiseandstrong3386

2 ай бұрын

Did we watch the same video? He literally said that.

@etchedinstone7562

Ай бұрын

We gave women the right to vote decades before France did.

The 1876 election had some more similarities to the 2000 election. Aside from the electoral vote margin being razor thin, then the winner losing the popular vote, the 2000 election was also on November 7th. When the Republicans wouldn't concede in 1876, one of the disputed states was Florida, as in 2000 with Florida being THE disputed state. There was a historical novel about the Hayes-Tilden election: "1876" by GORE Vidal, and the unfortunate electoral vote loser in 2000 was of course, Albert GORE.

@DatGuyWithNoName

13 күн бұрын

Very interesting how American history tends to rhyme like this. Reminds me of the Lincoln/Kennedy coincidences as well.

GQP be taking notes...

@MRB16th

5 ай бұрын

To be fair, the GOP today are pretty much the same as the white supremacists in 1876 (minus the lynchings).

Great, but Hayes was sworn in privately March 3rd and publicly March 5th because Inauguration Day was a Sunday, not March 2nd as indicated in the film.

The North had federal troops occupy the South after the Civil War for a decade. In 1876, the South demanded the federal troops withdraw and used the election as a political tool for removal of the federal troops. The federal troops had good reason to be stationed in the South because the South was politically unstable and still coming to grips with its loss in the Civil War. The removal of the troops allowed criminals and bandits to run wild, thereby causing even more tension because the high crime rates. The South is also the most ethnically diverse part of the country if you consider the number of people actually of different ethnicities. The North measures its diversity by a few immigrant arrivals from particular nationa.

@willyz9053

Жыл бұрын

@Nathan Longacreyeah, states that are treasonous and openly rebel against their fellow countrymen, absolutely. Sherman didn’t do enough, imo. As soon as federal troops pulled out, the racists in the south took charge again and we got Jim Crow.

@corybarrett2394

Жыл бұрын

@Nathan Longacre Did you miss the part where Nick says the troops remained in the South due to the South's instability after the Civil War? After all, much of the fighting in the Civil War took place in the South. The military set up temporary governments after the war ended to prevent the people who started the war from seizing power again. Nowhere did Nick say that he believed that federal troops should generally occupy states.

@derekatkins4800

Жыл бұрын

The occupation of the South by Federal troops following the end of the American Civil War was justified at that time, but if the LGBTQ community is proposing that Federal troops should do the same thing now in order to impose their will upon the rest of the country, that would be a gross violation of States’s Rights.

@lawrencedardin9046

Жыл бұрын

@Nathan Longacre Your ability to spin is astonishing.

This was very accurate and well done.. I will be sharing this..THANKS.

@corybarrett2394

Жыл бұрын

It's actually not accurate at all. It completely skips over how Democrats were responsible for the racism the video decries.

@adamdaniel8909

10 ай бұрын

​@@corybarrett2394for forgot to say "...Democrats at that time and not now"...

Wonderfully done, love the animation.

I didn't even noticed the narrator was Tom Hanks. you would get more views if you mention that on the title

Thank you for sharing this informative primer on the contested 1876 presidential election.

This has to be taught in schools! It’s a shameful travesty and abomination but those who don’t learn from the past . . .

What a horrific History! Thank you for this video. I have been studying for my Social Studies test and was confused to why the progress the African Americans had after the Civil War, changed into another 100 years of segregation…and now I found the missing puzzle. Thank you!

waw you got Tom Hanks 😃

And yet they dont understand when we refuse to stand for the pledge of allegiance!!!

Thanks for that Wooooodddyyyyyy :)

let's not confuse the issue that Rutherford was himself very much NOT a racist, being a Northerner wounded several times in the civil war, and who as president vetoed a number of proposed southern laws

this was a great history lesson. thank ou

This film demonstrates why we need CRT so all citizens learn the truth and realities of history Recall school in 60's and 70's teaching about "carpet baggers", but there was no context. I didn't get it. My white parents in southern California did not discuss the civil rights struggles. My Dad unfortunately was raised rascist and tended to stereotype people. Recall being terrified during LA race riots. As a society, much work still needs to occur.

@JK-br1mu

Жыл бұрын

No, clown, real history exists outside of CRT's far left hate propaganda............the collective peabrain that the Left possesses has tried to sell CRT as just the regular history of slavery and racism, which we have already had in schools for many decades, but that dog won't hunt, I'm afraid.

@lawrencedardin9046

Жыл бұрын

@@kobeck89 How does teaching the history of cultural and institutional racism and discrimination equate to Stalin or Mao? Yes as you say merits should be taught, as should the injustices. If we have compassion, we'll all benefit from accurate retelling of history.

@joyceread7053

10 ай бұрын

So CRT would fix that? CRT continues to divide people. We need to bring people together, not continue the division.

@lawrencedardin9046

10 ай бұрын

@joyceread7053 CRT doesn't divide people, those who want to deny historical reality is dividing people. Those who want truth, vs those who want to sweep uncomfortable facts under the rug.

@films9762

10 ай бұрын

@@joyceread7053 Are you making excuses for those running from the truth?

Hey Tom Hanks how many times did you visit that Island and what did you do on it ?

We have not learned a damn thing in 150 years...

Tilden and Reform, love Tilden

Thanks Tom, I enjoyed watching that!

lots of facts

It took me a minute to realize Woody from Toy Story was telling this tale.

The Union forever, hurrah! boys, hurrah! Down with the traitors, up with the stars; While we rally round the flag, boys, we rally once again, Shouting the battle cry of freedom!

@cchenault2012

Жыл бұрын

😂

Just as proud then as now

There really is nothing new under the sun.

This is something conservatives don't mention when they talk about the Reconstruction.

When are we going to get it rigght?

Seems like a big omission for such a great short.

If tilden had won the same thing would have happened

Just look at 2020.

I would liked to have seen a direct correlation to the removal of troops in the South and the virtual return of slavery. I can make a connection, but seems to have been glossed over just a little.

@JK-br1mu

Жыл бұрын

Slavery didn't return, black people no longer worked for free, but basic liberties were infringed upon.

@SamWinchester000

11 ай бұрын

When they had to give up their entire income (or most of it) for living at their workplace, it essentially was slavery all over again.

@films9762

10 ай бұрын

@@JK-br1mu The had to give up their liberties and almost all of their living wages. While living in terror and being abused. It was slavery by another name which still has effects that remain today

@JK-br1mu

10 ай бұрын

@@films9762 "almost all their living wages" thanks for the gibberish. They were paid low wages, as free citizens. Instead of working for free. Some did better than that, because they were free and could choose their work. They had their liberties, they weren't whipped by the master for not picking cotton like he wanted, and they could leave the state for something better any time. The post Civil War South wasn't great for black people, but it was way better than slavery. They had freedom and opportunity, even if both were not fully realized under racist Demoncat authorities.

grazie TH

This is CRT

@jamesmitch9792

Жыл бұрын

which is true

@JK-br1mu

Жыл бұрын

No this is history........CRT is Marxist hate-propaganda.

Sherman didn’t go far enough.

I'd like to know how republican and democrats interchanged value and believes or it's just that they all changed parties?

I bet WP will not make "animated short film" on Channon Christian and Hugh Christopher Newsom case from Knoxville, Tennessee ...

@christophermoore2398

Жыл бұрын

How to say you long for post-Reconstruction racial balance of power without saying It. They reported on it at the time, as they do all widely reported murders or those of national importance.

If Alabama's prison population was 80% black in 1870, that injustice is on the Republican Carpetbaggers. The so-called Compromise of 1877 came seven years later-as the video emphasizes-after Hayes became President

@JK-br1mu

Жыл бұрын

No, it's all on the Demoncats......and any of those black people who committed crimes.

@markeasley6149

Жыл бұрын

Revisionist. No evidence of this and it is the racist Democrats that did Jim Crow. Peanut brain doesn't get the Republicans ended slavery.

Using an old timey film aesthetic for an 1876 election makes no sense when the first ever moving image recording was in 1888.

@christophermoore2398

Жыл бұрын

That's your take-away?

@therocketboost

Жыл бұрын

@@christophermoore2398 It's a production note.

Early version of trump vs clinton.

Hey TOM and the NYT all of these mesures are BACK you need to update this vid

Tom Hanks??

@HTV315

8 ай бұрын

He played as woody in Toy Story

The ending was so cringe

If Grant just made a national apology and a stipend for the enslaved after the war that would have been a proper foundation for reparations. However a call for reparatios is not to combat slavery but to actually finish Reconstruction and combat the recent years of Jim Crow that burned down any progress made by the decendants of Amercan slaves. This video shows how Jim Crow was a failing of the Govt and NATIONAL policy. This is what needs to be "repaired"

@markeasley6149

Жыл бұрын

Not every black person in America has slave heritage. Some came as refugees in a different era or some just moved here as normal immigrants because it is an attractive place. You can't prove heritage in every case (except by skin color, which is racist) so you can never do a reparations scheme fairly.

@joyceread7053

10 ай бұрын

Most Government programs and policies fail.

this is the miscount problem for black america

The land of the free cough cough

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Uh

Now do 2020.

Pres. Biden: Not ALL compromises are good. Make sure the sacrifice "you" are signing up for, is truly your own and not somebody else's rights and freedom that you're giving away.

Carpetbagger-controlled election returning boards counted the votes in the Southern sates. They were going to go for Hayes regardless of the true popular vote, which in at least Louisiana alone would give the votes Tilden needed to win the Presidency.

@JK-br1mu

Жыл бұрын

More like black people were voting heavily Republican, which combined with the minority of whites who did as well, gave Rs the majority..........so racist Dem pigs had to steal it.

Now do one on Joe Biden

Rutherford B Hayes was the greatest president of all time

This was 147 years ago. I don't think any of us were even born yet. You might want to get over it.

@GoodJuju.8D

Жыл бұрын

It effects people to this day! We'll get over it when all are treated equally, not just white men.

Which party fought for equal rights? REPUBLICANS. Which party created JIM CROW? DEMOCRATS.

@vicepresidentmikepence889

Жыл бұрын

Which party used to be the party of the North and fought racism..Republicans Which party is currently the party of the North and fights racism..Democrats

@benavraham4397

Жыл бұрын

@@vicepresidentmikepence889 I lived in Georgia in the end of the 1960's, and back then, the South was solidly Democrat, and Republican was unthinkable. I think the Democrats are opportunistic and switched sides, and then later the South went Republican, because the Civil War by then far back, and Republicans still held old fashion values.

@freedomfighterletsgobrandon

Жыл бұрын

@@vicepresidentmikepence889 Which party is currently the party of the mostly white North-East (not the always very republican north-western canadian border states of Idaho, Montana and North Dakota, which voted for a democrat President only 5 times; the 3rd smallest number after South Dakota (4 times) and Alaska (1 time)) and pushes racism..Democrats Which party is currently the party of the racially very diverse South-East and fights racism..Republicans

@markeasley6149

Жыл бұрын

Democrats make ALL of us poorer Democrats make ALL of us dumber Democrats make ALL of us weaker Democrats make ALL of us hateful I don't want to be poor, dumb, weak, or hateful so I am rejecting the Democrats.

@JonathanMoosey

Жыл бұрын

@@vicepresidentmikepence889 the Democrats have never fought racism. They are the party of racism. Just look at how black conservatives are treated by liberals and that shows all one needs to know about racist white democrats

JIM CROW = DEMOCRATS Never forget!

@freedomfighterletsgobrandon

Жыл бұрын

The DNC should pay reparations to all the harm and suffering it has caused.

@benavraham4397

Жыл бұрын

@@freedomfighterletsgobrandon RIGHT ON !!!🇺🇲 The Democratic party should pay reperations for slavery, the Civil War and for Jim Crow damages. Let the slave owners pay!

@GoodJuju.8D

Жыл бұрын

The parties switched names. Republicans were racist haters when their name was Democrat. A rose by any other name...

@JonathanMoosey

Жыл бұрын

I will always remember the racism of the Democrats.

OPIONIONS ARENT FACT

@guesswhoscomingtoyoutube

Жыл бұрын

We know your point is ??

@charlesmiv3842

Жыл бұрын

Calm down, boomer.

@CesarAnton

Жыл бұрын

That's why they show us the facts on this video. Racists think otherwise, but opinions aren't facts.

@adjwindu70

Жыл бұрын

US history is not up for debate. What happened, happened.

@chillipepper1383

Жыл бұрын

coming from someone who can't even write. LOL!

and yet they are still loyal to the democrat party.

@tallSycamore

Жыл бұрын

@@grapesurgeon - Or maybe Tim is demonstrating his ignorance.

@BrooklynBeTheBoro

Жыл бұрын

Strange, isn't it? Why should Black people be loyal to the Democratic Party? I mean it's not as if the republikkklan party defends confederate loser statues. And you never ever EVER see confederate loser flags at republikkklan rallies. And it's not as though republikkklans have been caught repeatedly gerrymandering districts in order to intentionally disenfranchise Black people! No, the modern republikkklan party LOOOOOVES Black people! Heck, they even elected the first Black president, and made sure that no one used any racist birrher nonsense to attack him. Yeah, my community really should be loyal to the modern republikkklan party.

@adjwindu70

Жыл бұрын

Notice that the first reply to you has more than 7 times as many likes as you.

@willyz9053

Жыл бұрын

And yet the kkk all now vote for the Republican Party.

@corybarrett2394

Жыл бұрын

@@tallSycamore No, Tim recognizes that the Democrats were responsible for all of the racism and white supremacy this video decries. Of course, Tom Hanks and the Washington Post are not going to make their own party look bad.

💜MAGA POTUS DJT🇺🇸🙏🏾

@BrooklynBeTheBoro

Жыл бұрын

Be sure to visit him in prison. You know he can't survive without the slavish devotion of his brainless cult members 😂!

@billhathaway2814

Жыл бұрын

@@BrooklynBeTheBoro He is not going to prison...YOU are delusional. Enjoying the feeble minded corrupt Biden puppet as your prez?? That Afghanistan withdrawal sure went well. Love the cost of groceries? Hope you do they are only going higher because ..........Biden.💯💯

@willyz9053

Жыл бұрын

Criminal ex-president and a disgrace.

@freedomfighterletsgobrandon

Жыл бұрын

The DNC should pay reparations to all the harm and suffering it has caused.

@BrooklynBeTheBoro

Жыл бұрын

@@freedomfighterletsgobrandon and afterwards we should disband the republikkklan party since they gave shelter to all of the white supremacists, racists, and bigots who fled the Democratic Party during the Civil Rights Movement.