The+Jive+Turkey



We are the Jive Turkeys. No matter what any thug tells you, We are many. So first of all we want to propose a code for people, or THUGs, to live by. This plan is called THUG LIFE, written by Tupac Shakor, altered to fit the time of reconstruction.


 * 1) Crew Leaders: You are responsible for legal/financial payment commitments to crew members; your word must be your bond.
 * 2) Crew leader and posse should select a diplomat, and should work ways to settle disputes. In unity, there is strength!
 * 3) Carriage jacking in our Hood is against the Code.
 * 4) Snitches is outta here.
 * 5) The Boys in White bed sheets don’t run nothing; we do. Control the Hood, and make it safe for squares.
 * 6) Know your target, who’s the real enemy.
 * 7) Civilians are not a target and should be spared.
 * 8) Harm to children will not be forgiven.
 * 9) Attacking someone’s home where their family is known to reside, must be altered or checked.
 * 10) Senseless brutality and rape must stop.
 * 11) Our old folks must not be abused.
 * 12) Respect our Sisters. Respect our Brothers.
 * 13) Sisters in the Life must be respected if they respect themselves.
 * 14) Military disputes concerning business areas within the community must be handled professionally and not on the block.
 * 15) No shooting at parties.
 * 16) Concerts and parties are neutral territories; no shooting!
 * 17) Know the Code; it’s for everyone.
 * 18) Be a real ruff neck. Be down with the code of the Thug Life.
 * 19) Protect yourself at all times.

What is the primary goal of reconstruction? Reunification, punishment, civil rights, other? (Thesis) 1. The primary goal of our reconstruction plan is for everyone to at least be more okay with each other than they were at the end of the civil war. The code of THUG LIFE seems like a very good code for both democrats and rebulicans to live by. It was the code keeping peace between Bloods and the Crips in Los Angeles county. Unfortunately at least these two parties have respect for each other, so our plan deems that we re-educate the South's children as well as hopefully educate the parents as well, so they like each other... at least a little bit.

...Kind of like the uncle who put you through college, but he molested you.-Chris Rock

What should be done to the ex-Confederates? 2. The ex-confederates depending on their involvement in the confederation's army deserve different punishment. Ultimately the way to display that you have won a war, is to have the loosing faction torn to their knees. We would take all generals with 30 men or more under them, and (reenact?) the Nirenberg trials. who else bsides the generals would be convicted? Yes the problem with this is ultimately bitterness, but we would have to govern the South with an iron fist. We would create a police type force using people from the Army, and than getting more people into the army to fill the holes, and than station some of the army in areas that seem to have the most troubles. A possible punishment could be being put into stocks and have a required procession of all town ressedents to walk by and punch them in the face. Even the the freedbabies have a shot at punching the ex-confederates.

What should be done for the freedmen? 3. The newly freed black men should be dealt like men. I think to do this we will take all school age children and put them into a school taught by white abolitionists, most likely females. Once there, we would protect these schools with the armed forces that would be located in the areas with the highest terrorist members, because most likely the fact that there is a school in the area it would spark interest, and cause more violent organization against it (so a military occupation).

Who should be able to vote and hold office in the new Southern state governments? 4. Anyone who can pass the test can vote. This test will not be like the test we had in the 8th grade about history, it would be about government, and the different wants of each political party. Ultimately something like this would make our society better as a whole. Whomever can vote in a reenstated state can run for office (how will people learn about the us government, and what about the southerners who were involved in secession? any punishment for them in this sense?).

What requirements must be met before states regain full rights and representation? 5. I think that the states should have the schools set up. Once ten percent of each minority can pass the test to vote they should be able to regain the full rights of a state. (anything else? how will the state's loyalty to the union be confirmed?)

How should the Southern economy be restored? 6. ﻿The economy in the South should be restored by the tax money paid by the North and the South. Together the tax money could add factories, as well as replant crops. And to collect the Southern taxes, we will import British people as indentured servants to act like English lords collecting tithe from peasants. And they will degrade the Southern white people by acting condensendingly towards them like the days of Camelot. (thats stupid. no british person would agree to do that)

What role should Union troops play in policing, governing, or rebuilding the South? 7. All Union troops stationed and policing the South should be black. There will not be a white union soldier to be found. And these squads of black soldiers will have the power to recruit other black people into their ranks. Therefore there will be large groups of armed freedmen outnumbering white supremacy factions and able to restore peace (wouldn't that prvoke more violence among blacks and whites?).

**Re-state the primary goal of reconstruction. (Thesis re-stated)** **8. Everyone just needs to suck it up and be cool with eachother, because blacks are people too.** (that is completely unrealistic. anyways, how would you do that?)

-jake