https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_draft_riots#cite_note-foner-4We keep getting told how whites died fighting to end slavery therefore we as blacks, who apparently did nothing need to be grateful for the great sacrifices made by whites. First off this is a silly claim. We are to be grateful that whites decided to fix a problem they created and did not have to be. However, reality is that such a claim is untrue.
New York City draft riots
The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863), known at the time as Draft Week,[3] were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. The riots remain the largest civil and racially charged insurrection in American history, aside from the Civil War itself.[4]
If the Civil War was not about slavery, and was just about saving the Union, why were these Draft Riots, "racially charged"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_draft_riots#cite_note-7U.S. President Abraham Lincoln diverted several regiments of militia and volunteer troops after the Battle of Gettysburg to control the city. The rioters were overwhelmingly working-class men, mostly Irish or of Irish descent, who feared free black people competing for work and resented that wealthier men, who could afford to pay a $300 (equivalent to $9,157 in 2017[5]) commutation fee to hire a substitute, were spared from the draft.[6][7]
The riots were BEFORE the Gettysburgh Address, yet the rioters seemed to think that the war would result in large numbers of slaves being freed.
MMMM, interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_draft_riots#cite_note-wool-8Initially intended to express anger at the draft, the protests turned into a race riot, with white rioters, predominantly Irish immigrants,[4] attacking black people throughout the city. The official death toll was listed at either 119 or 120 individuals. Conditions in the city were such that Major General John E. Wool, commander of the Department of the East, said on July 16 that "Martial law ought to be proclaimed, but I have not a sufficient force to enforce it."[8]
Again with the anger at blacks, over a war that you claim was not about the blacks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_draft_riots#cite_note-Harris-9The military did not reach the city until the second day of rioting, by which time the mobs had ransacked or destroyed numerous public buildings, two Protestant churches, the homes of various abolitionists or sympathizers, many black homes, and the Colored Orphan Asylum at 44th Street and Fifth Avenue, which was burned to the ground.[9]
Abolitionists? That's even weirder.
These citizens, during the Civil War, well before The Gettysburg address, really seemed convinced that the war was about freeing the slaves.
Oh, and the attack on the churches? THat was because they were known to be big in the Abolition movement.
The area's demographics changed as a result of the riot. Many black residents left Manhattan permanently with many moving to Brooklyn. By 1865, the black population fell below 11,000 for the first time since 1820.
New York City draft riots - Wikipedia
And again with the Blacks. Jeez, where did these fools get the idea that the Civil War would end up freeing the slaves?
How crazy of them.
Do you even read anything?