Obama Honors Selma After Ignoring Gettysburg

Investor's Business Daily ^ | March 10, 2015 | IBD EDITORIALS

[raptor22]

elma: After ignoring the battle that ended slavery under the first Republican president, President Obama at the 50th anniversary of Democrats' blocking the Selma bridge says, "We're the slaves that built the White House."

The parts of American history that this president chooses to commemorate and what he says about them speaks volumes about his view of America and American history.

His America is not only unexceptional, it is perpetually and deeply racist, an overbearing world bully with no right to lecture the world about morality, democracy or freedom.

He reminded us over the weekend that despite any progress since then, "We just need to open our eyes, our ears and our hearts to know that this nation's racial history still casts its long shadow upon us." Or just look at the police department in Ferguson, Mo.?

To Obama, the White House is not the home of the leaders of the world's oldest democracy, but a structure built by slaves.

[central_va]

The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863

On July 13, the government’s attempt to enforce the draft in New York City ignited the most destructive civil disturbance in the city’s history.

6 months later.

[expat_panama]

That’s exactly right!

[zeestephen]

Thanks.

The article said 51,000 “lives lost,” and I snapped it up without thinking about it first.