# Heritage? Nah, just hate.

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**Created:** [August 12, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heritage-nah-just-hate/793487 "2017-08-12T23:49:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heritage-nah-just-hate/793487/113 "2017-08-14T01:16:36Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> Indeed, a more merciful Reconstruction would have saved this country a lot of trouble. But a truly merciful Reconstruction would have been even less to the liking of Lee and his fellow honorless traitors, because they’re not the ones who needed mercy the most. A merciful Reconstruction would have meant back wages paid to all of the former slaves, paid if necessary through the confiscation and sale of the plantations. We’re still suffering from the festering self-inflicted wounds of slavery, because we’ve never really tried to make things right.

You realize that slavery was an ancient and world wide institution?

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