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2026-04-09 01:32 UTC
I hear people say that this moment in American history hearkens back to the gilded age. I get the general idea. Income inequality is sky high, robber barons are running the government, etc, etc.
I don't disagree that this is a good fit, but I do think that it's an incomplete picture of what's happening.
Dr. Rayford W. Logan was an African American historian in the late 1800s, and I really urge you to learn about him if you haven't heard of him and you care about history.
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@scarlet@plush.city 2026-04-09 01:32
Anyways, he wrote how the nadir of American race relations was reached during that time period between (the failed attempt at) Reconstruction (1870s) and the Gilded/Progressive ages (1890s - early 1900s). During this era, Jim Crow laws were solidified, and obscene levels of violence, death, and hatred towards black people was a defining element of white culture in America. I can't do justice to Dr. Logan's writings on this time period, but I can point you to it. 8/20