The Racist Yankee Government

Pat Buchanan’s WorldNetDaily column on Brown vs. the Board of Education, reprinted today on LRC, points out a glaring hypocricy: The same central government that tells us that it pillaged, plundered, bombed, mass murdered, and burned its way through the south in the name of achieving racial equality took 90 more years from the end of the War to Prevent Southern Independence before it would allow black kids to sit next to its own white children in school in the nation’s capital. And as Pat points out, once integration was ordered, the white Washington Establishment fled the city so fast that within ten years the D.C. schools were 95 percent black.

And let’s not forget that it took the Yankee army more than 80 years to integrate — to allow black soldiers to mingle with whites rather than be treated like alien beings.

I wonder how these facts fit in with a theory proposed by Victor Davis Hanson in The American Enterprise Magazine last year that Gen. Sherman was motivated to do what he did because he, like so many other Union Army officers, was supposedly offended by the severe racial inequalities in the South? To Hanson, Sherman was simply an early version of one of the idealistic white hippie kids who went down south in the 1960s to join in the march for civil rights legislation.

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7:29 am on May 18, 2004