Probably hard to be grateful when Southern Democrats, who were completely un-reconstructed, put them right back into slavery with everything from share cropping deals to poll taxes and grandfather clauses... and then kept lynching them all the way into the late 1960's... Then stuck them in Ghettos. Buried them in Heroin then rock... then created laws to destroy their families and profited greatly off of gang and rap culture...
All the while, calling 'boot strap Republicans' who wanted to get folks off welfare and tell them they had no limits... were called racists for trying to reduce welfare... so the left could create a free shit army of minorities and the lazy... to help them usher in Communism.
You think any of that is accidental? Heck, Marx predicted it! Stating that the Negro would be used until the 'Revolution was complete" then would be put back into chains like cattle. But the %$#@ing BLM idiots call themselves trained Marxists. Did they even read Marx?
Meh... whatever. It's so broken now that the only thing we can hope for is that the pendulum swings without massive bloodshed. Which is what the left is hoping for because they think that out of the ashes will come their shining future of equality and green paradise.
BTW, Vermonters died at the highest rate per capita of the Civil War. And the lefties up here are SCREAMING that we should be paying reparations. That's what Progressives are about. It's all about redistribution. Using whatever means necessary. Starting with disarmament and propaganda.
Yup... keep believing that.
Sirhr