Ashley Wright (Herbert) > Recent Status Updates

" First, would the United States live up to its recent constitutional commitment to racial equality? With the Civil War, the founding doc- uments of the American nation were revised to permit men of color into the halls of power and governance. Yet words on paper were not the same as deeds and actions, and the balf-falfiled promise of equality spurred tremendous violence."

Surprised by this already.

Made it through civil war!!!

James Blaine has me thinking I'm not being a hater to my fullest extent. 😈

The first third of this biography is just Ron Chernow gently asking, 'Have you considered feeling even worse for Ulysses S. Grant?'

Speaker Blaine proves to me I'm not hating with enough of my capacity.