[2ndDivisionVet]

Six page article. If the author's name rings a bell, there's a reason.

[re_nortex]

It’s best to “skip” Gates.

[Olog-hai]

This inspires me to have a beer summit . . . with myself, this Saturday.

[Dilbert San Diego]

The African country of Liberia was started as a country for freed American slaves, wasn’t it?

[jazusamo]

This flake should stick to beer summits with the corrupt one in the WH.

[GeronL]

I thought he wanted it to be an option?

[Publius]

Excellent article. Thanks for posting.

[Bettyprob]

Lincoln on equality:

“I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.”

Lincoln on inter-racial marriage:

“Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.”

[Windflier]

Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Yet another racist Obama crony who needs to get off the national stage.

[marron]

He was looking for a way to right a wrong at least cost and pain.

Since they had been stolen from their own land, he proposed to either return them to the land they were stolen from, or give them a land of their own. That might not have been such a bad thing, giving them their own country.

It didn’t work out. That doesn’t make it a bad idea.

[NormsRevenge]

IF an offer of 100 dollars in gold bullion per head and free passage back home had been offered., how many would have went back to lives of hardship and even worse barbarities?

[Vendome]

Gates is a self serving tool, who seeks to excoriate Lincoln through his entirely out of context and ddeplorale tome.

Only at the end does he throw a gratuitous lifeline to Lincoln’s thinking and character.

We knew about this a long time ago Mr. Gates.

Sorry Lincoln tried to find ways to rid the nation of the scourge of slavery and must couldn’t quite pull it off well enough for you, except that you can leverage your esteemed place in modern race relations, for an agenda that seeks to fill a well of anger, which has no depth and coukd never be filled for all the machinations you go through.

“I freed who?”

“Well, you’re welcome”

[marron]

If someone offered me my own country on a tropical coastline, to be populated by me and like-minded people of whatever race, I’d have to consider it.

I wouldn’t complain about the injustice of it.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Was Abraham Lincoln Actually a Woman?

[Gator113]

Well Gates, it might be interesting to put this “return” to a national vote...today. Do you feel lucky, Mr. Gates? Well, do you?

I am not wanting to sound racist, I simply want people to be happy. Imagine how pleased some of these folks would be to finally be living in what they see as their homeland and no longer having to put up with the country and the people they hate so much.

So Gates, the white man screwed up, lets fix that and help to get you home, where you and racist - American hating people, like you, belong.

Happy, happy, happy.....

[Steamburg]

There they go trying to claim Lincoln as a Democrat, again!

[Usagi_yo]

Recollecting what I think I was taught in private grade school, Lincoln wanted the slaves to move to and form a country in liberia.

[Sherman Logan]

Even after making good on his ultimatum to the South in the final Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln supported one black minister’s Liberian plan while funding another venture to Ile a Vache, off Haiti, which quickly turned into a humanitarian crisis when the contracted agent, Bernard Kock, made himself “governor” and swindled the 450 black men and women he had conscripted from Fort Monroe, Va., or Freedom’s Fort, you’ll remember. Instead of building them houses, Foner writes, Kock purchased shackles for their further oppression—planting cotton outside the country.

At minimum, this is a very one-sided portrayal of this fascinating episode.

Though accounts vary, Kock appears to have been a sincere man left high and dry by his investors and the US government, neither of which followed through on their commitments.

In particular, Gates states the colonists were forced into this venture. AFAIK this is just not true. In fact, the expedition had an overabundance of volunteers who competed for space on the ship.

Here's an interesting article by one of BK's descendants.

http://thompsongenealogy.com/2011/12/bernard-kock-colonized-cow-island-with-freed-slaves/

Here's another article, from NYT, that paints a less flattering picture of BK.

http://www.theroot.com/articles/history/2014/09/lincoln_s_back_to_africa_solution.5.html

[HandyDandy]

“I knew Fredrick Douglas. Fredrick Douglas was a friend of mine. Professor Gates ain’t no Fredrick Douglas”.

[NoLibZone]

Presenting the option to return would have been wise.

[bgill]

We should have picked our own cotton.