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To: Lee25

Your 90% of blacks wanted out of America is patently untrue. Blacks and their leaders thought of themselves as Americans and wanted to stay in America. In fact black leaders expressed this sentiment to Lincoln and it is the reason he dropped any plans for resettlement of the freed slaves.

Blacks have fought and died in every war this country has been in. Over the course of my twenty plus years in the military I served with outstanding people of all races. This country is as much theirs as it is ours so take your racist nonsense and shove it up your ass.


70 posted on 09/03/2019 3:22:04 PM PDT by OIFVeteran
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To: OIFVeteran
and it is the reason he dropped any plans for resettlement of the freed slaves.

I think that claim is very much in dispute. I believe Union General Butler said that Lincoln was discussing plans to expatriate former slaves the day before his assassination.

There are quite a lot of quotes out there that indicate Lincoln never did give up the plan to induce blacks to leave America.

Blacks have fought and died in every war this country has been in. Over the course of my twenty plus years in the military I served with outstanding people of all races. This country is as much theirs as it is ours...

And I agree with this sentiment. American blacks are Americans. They share our culture, (mostly) and they know no life other than American life. They would be as lost in another country as would any American, because other country's ways are not our ways.

76 posted on 09/03/2019 4:08:16 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no oither sovereignty.")
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