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In reply to the discussion: ...and then a man rode through the lines bearing a white flag. [View all]heaven05
(18,124 posts)please don't expect me to embrace 'the great emancipator' or his Gettysburg Address. "New birth of freedom". For who exactly? I never have, never will understand those words as meaning anything for POC, especially since black people are still losing rights and lives for that "freedom" to this day. He was a pragmatic politician trying to keep a divided country from ripping itself apart because one race wanted to enslave another race, among many sins of his day. And by the way the repubthugs have come full circle. They would like to put POC and women back in their place. Who does that leave as free people with full rights, again?
I've had enough of lionizing all these so called heroes when we're still fighting the battles of his day 150 years later especially since he would have been gotten rid of all black people by recolonizing. The only reason they probably couldn't do something like "recolonizing" black people is it probably cost too much to round us up and ship us out. It would have been a black "Trail of Tears" marching to the coast(s) to board ships for who knows where. No I am NOT unfair to that politician. The 'great emancipator' leaves me empty inside.