They are being taught this nonsense in NYC schools instead.Thomas Sowell: Is truth irrelevant?
THOMAS SOWELL
JAN 15, 2021 8:18 AM
Thomas Sowell excerpt below-more at the link:
It is amazing how many people seem to have discovered last Wednesday that riots are wrong — when many of those same people apparently had not noticed that when riots went on, for weeks or even months, in various cities across the country last year. ...snip...
One of the most grotesque distortions growing out of this carelessness with the facts has been a removal of Abraham Lincoln’s name and statues from various places, on grounds that he saw Black people only as property.
Such criticisms betray an incredible ignorance of history — or else a complete disregard of truth.
As a lawyer, Abraham Lincoln knew that there was nothing in the Constitution which authorized him or any other president to free slaves. But he also knew that a military commander in wartime can legally seize the property of an enemy nation. Defining slaves as property gave President Lincoln the only legal authority he had to seize them during the Civil War. And once they were seized as property, he could then free them as human beings.
But, if the Emancipation Proclamation had based its action on defining the slaves as human beings, with a right to be free, the Supreme Court of that era would undoubtedly have declared it unconstitutional.
Millions of human beings would have remained slaves. Would ringing rhetoric be worth that price?
As for the claim that Lincoln did not regard Black people as human, he invited Frederick Douglass to the White House!
Gross distortions of history, in order to get Abraham Lincoln’s name removed from schools, tells us a lot about what is wrong with American education today....snip...
They are being taught this nonsense in NYC schools instead.