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IDKMYDE: The Civil War Was NOT About States' Rights · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The Civil War wasn't about states' rights, but you already
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  Speaker 1: knew that.
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  Speaker 2: What's happen to know it? Alls?
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of the most anticipated podcast
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  Speaker 1: on the Black Effect Podcast Network, especially in February.
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  Speaker 2: Entitled I didn't Know? Maybe you didn't either.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host f Dots And you know one of
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  Speaker 1: my favorite movies of all time, Glory. It's the story
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  Speaker 1: with Denzel Washington and the fifty fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
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  Speaker 1: It's right there during that Civil War period. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: every time the Civil War comes up, somebody try to say, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't about slavery, it was about states rights. Yeah, right,
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  Speaker 1: if that's the case, quick question the states rights to
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  Speaker 1: do what? Let's pull that case foul, shall we? But
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  Speaker 1: before we do, I've got three of the most useless
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  Speaker 1: facts you'll never need, never, not a day in life
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  Speaker 1: about states rights.
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  Speaker 2: Up.
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  Speaker 1: First, every Confederate state wrote why they were leaving the Union,
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  Speaker 1: and slavery was named directly. Your second useless fact, Mississippi
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  Speaker 1: caust slavery the greatest material interest of the world, and
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  Speaker 1: that's a quote, not a remix.
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  Speaker 2: And your third.
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  Speaker 1: Useless fact, the states' rights explanation didn't even become popular
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  Speaker 1: until after the Confederacy lost.
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  Speaker 2: But do you know why that mattered?
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  Speaker 1: Because I didn't I didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. All right,
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  Speaker 2: So here's what history gets wrong. On purpose.
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  Speaker 1: The Civil War wasn't confusing to the people who started it. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: they were extremely clear. South Carolina said the Northern States
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  Speaker 1: were interfering with slavery. Texas said slavery was divinely ordained.
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  Speaker 1: Georgia said out volition threatened their entire way of life.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody was being vague about it. So how did states'
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  Speaker 1: rights become the headline? Because losing a war is bad,
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  Speaker 1: but losing a war for slavery is worse. See, after
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  Speaker 1: the Confederacy loss, the South had branding problems. You can't
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  Speaker 1: rebuild political power while saying, yeah, we fought to keep
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  Speaker 1: people enslaved. So the story got softened. Slavery became complicated,
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  Speaker 1: and slavery's became misunderstood, and the war became about principle
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  Speaker 1: That rewriter.
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  Speaker 2: Is called the Lost Cause. And it worked.
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  Speaker 1: It made monuments possible, It made textbooks safer. It made
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  Speaker 1: accountability optional, because if the war was just a simple misunderstanding,
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  Speaker 1: then nobody has to answer for it. And this is
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  Speaker 1: exactly why Carter G. Woodson started Black History Week one
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  Speaker 1: hundred years ago in nineteen twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: It was meant to correct that, not ignorance denial.
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  Speaker 1: See, when the cause of the Civil War gets blurred,
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  Speaker 1: everything that comes after it gets blurred too. Reconstruction looks extreme,
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  Speaker 1: civil rights look unnecessary, and resistance looks disruptive. That ain't accidental.
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  Speaker 1: That's what happens when history avoids responsibility. So let's be clear.
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  Speaker 1: The Civil War wasn't about abstract rights. It was about
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  Speaker 1: the right to own human beings, period. And the receipts
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  Speaker 1: are still there if you're willing to read them.
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  Speaker 2: And I didn't know, maybe you didn't either,