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To: ChildOfThe60s

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.


19 posted on 02/09/2007 7:41:40 PM PST by Redbob
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To: Redbob
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

On the other hand you have Roger Taney, supported by Robert Lee and Jeff Davis and Thomas Jackson and all the other Southern leaders who didn't believe blacks could be citizens at all, second class or otherwise. Which is worse?

112 posted on 02/11/2007 2:46:14 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Redbob
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.

Which Abe is that?


182 posted on 02/12/2007 3:58:27 PM PST by x
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