Parallels of Post Reconstruction and Post-Obama Era

Meet Blogger Eco-Soul as she explains her controversial piece on Obama's presidency  "Parallels of Post-Reconstruction and Post-Obama Reconstruction Era"

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But before you understand Post-Reconstruction, let me briefly explain the period of Reconstruction. This time marked a period of serious rebuilding of a fractured infrastructure due to a Civil War that left the United States dismantled, broke, and uncertain of its future.

One of the biggest plans that had to be put in place were policies and laws to ensure that recently emancipated enslaved black folk and quasi-free Negroes would be provided the opportunity to receive some of the civil liberties that whites had enjoyed for over two hundred years. Things such as basic public education, land ownership, business loans, military protection in the South, the ability to sue in court and the right to vote for black men (remember women were not a part of the public sphere during this time) were just a few of the things implemented.

And what happened? Black folks flourished, often becoming more prosperous than the local whites. 

Since black folk had command of many of the trades, knew the land, and were industrious, plus communal, fully-operating and self-contained black communities, began to spring up throughout the country. Eventually, they began to compete and in some cases, surpass the prosperity of with local markets, i.e. Black Wall Street, black communities