This is why if I had to educate my children over again, they would NEVER set foot in a government indoctrination camp. Never.
Poor Abe. He frees the slaves, at the cost of his life, and now he's on trial for racism. What a crock of shit.
Gee, I wonder if they'll follow up with trials for Woodrow Wilson (who allowed many Federal gov't offices to be segregated), and FDR (who refused to support anti-lynching legislation, largely because it would cost him political support from southern Democrats of that era).
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Nahhhhh!
It sounds like an interesting intellectual excercise to me. Why are people slamming it so much? People on freerepublic.com all the time like to point out that Lincoln didn't really set out to free teh slaves. It sounds like this school is taking that exercise and turning it into a big production.
Apparently, it doesn't matter that he signed the Emancipation Proclamtion. What really matters is that he may possibly have committed a thought crime by doubting that freed slaves could integrate successfully into American society. Maybe flogging George Bush's character has gotten old, so the liberal Professors are expanding their horizons to dead Presidents. One possible verdict: "Abe Lincoln freed the slaves, but he's still a hate criminal!"
Will the Emancipation Proclamation be offered as evidence for his defense?
Your honor, I'd like to call Robert Byrd, Fritz Hollings, and Joesph Biden to the stand.
About time folks talked about the "other" Abe: the one the GOP likes to keep in the closet, the one who never intended for blacks to be other than second-class citizens.
Abe Lincoln was a lobbyist for the railroad. That is how he got his connections and funding to run for president.
Neato, I'd love to have this debate with my coworkers next week. Oh wait, I have this pesky annoyance called a "job", during which I have to perform "work", which results in "accomplishing something".
It must be nice to be an academic.
By today's standards 99% of Americans of The War of Northern Aggression Era were "racists".
That was a totally different time and people can't be fairly judged by today's more "enlightened" views.
Well, despite being a racist, Lincoln did play a big role in freeing the slaves. This was more than most of his contemporary politicians did.
Lincoln was as much a product of his time as any other important figure of his day. But he was always against slavery.
Lincoln may have been a Republican, but he was also a Liberal and only rarely sided with anything that he didn't take a poll on.
Yeah, Lincoln was so racist that the damned slaves were freed anyway. Lilly white Andrew Johnson saw to that.
Doesn't matter what the communitiy college does. Abe's defense atty will bring up the fact that Lincoln was gay, the crowd will gasp and a bright star will appear over and hush the crowd.
He'll then be coronated.
"If I can save the Union without freeign aq single slave, I will do it."
And Abe was a "Back to Africa" guy for at least part of his career.
Maybe the "copperhead democrats" who undermined the civil war should go on trial at the same time.