daily blog 4/6

We learned about the fourteenth amendment in class. It basically gave citizenship to African Americans and it increasingly punished the south. I find it completely unfair that Congress is acting this way and treating the south so poorly. Admittedly, they probably do deserve some kind of punishment for their acts of "secession" but they are losing their freedom and liberty with this amendment. Liberty is something the civil war was fought over so why is it being eliminated in the south? And even with this newfound citizenship for African Americans there is still a lack of equality and with that, segregation policies. Although African Americans are no longer considered property at this point, they are still being treated like animals.