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It’s Back to School for Kelly

John Kelly to take classes on American History at Georgetown University.

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WikiLeekZ has learned that in order for John Kelly to retain his job as Chief of Staff, his wife, Karen, insisted that he attend night school classes on American History and publicly submit his test scores for grading by actual historians, not Fox ‘News’ talking heads.

In a recent Fox interview, Kelly said "…the lack of ability to compromise led to the Civil War. And men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had to make their stand…There will be, 100 or 200 years from now, people that criticize us for what we do, and I guess they'll tear down, you know, statues of people that we revere today,"

For Kelly, the future is now...

WikiLeekZ notes that it didn’t take 100-200 years for historians to begin a fusillade of criticism for Kelly’s ignorant statements about Compromise and the Civil War.

Kelly's statement, of course, is flat-out wrong. Slavery was incorporated into the Constitution through the three-fifths compromise* and was continued, despite fierce opposition by abolitionists, through political compromises in 1820 and 1850, as well as with the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854**.

Compromise continued long after Lincoln's death. The Compromise of 1877*** led to explicit White Supremacist rule in the South for a century.

 

Lincoln’s Compromise plan for re-admission…Once a group in any conquered state equal in number to one tenth of the state’s total vote in the presidential election of 1860 took the prescribed oath of loyalty to the United States and organized a government that abolished slavery; Lincoln’s plan would grant that state recognition and admitted into the Union. That was a great Compromise as many of the states wanted a 50% to take an iron-clad oath that that never willingly supported the Confederacy.

WikiLeekZ sees Trumpism seeping into the fiber of Kelly’s brain. So SAD! Kelly will bring Trump along to school at Melania's insistence.

* The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise reached between delegates from southern states and those from northern states during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention, allowing slaves to be counted as three-fifths of human beings for taxation and representation purposes

**The Kansas-Nebrask Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders.

*** The Compromise of 1877 was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era. Through the Compromise, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden on the understanding that Hayes would remove the federal troops whose support was essential for the survival of Republican state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.

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