white southerners are going to need to process what the meaning of that whole collapse of their society really is. and their explanation of their defeat becomes a narrative. it becomes a memory. it becomes the lost cause tradition. and the lost cause tradition was this argument that the confederacy had really fought for noble aims. the war wasn t really entirely about slavery it. was about defending their homelands, their families, their women. slavery was not the great issue. if left to them, they would have handled slavery over time and maybe even gotten rid of it themselves, they said, which is nonsense. there were alternative textbooks
project back into slavery it. was illegal for men and women to be married. women were taken from men, children from their fathers and mothers, as a matter of course in slavery. now, had she said, what gives the lie to that as soon as black people got free, they married as much as they could. 56.3% of black families were in a nuclear family and 1950, 80% of black people were in male and female-headed households, part of the nuclear families. by 1996, it plummets, there are reason for that prejudice, ramping up of the attack upon the black family by the matriarchy. the point is, it f>@>rundermine african american people, black