Posted on 06/27/2020 3:50:25 AM PDT by C19fan
How would the press report on 12 conservatives throwing paint on an MLK statue... I suspect the 12 would be condemned and the corrupt FBI would see all twelve as violent - NOT just the one who threw the paint.
Thanks for the additional text!
Justin Welby is a fatuous fool, and every word he says in this article serves only to show it more clearly. Unfortunately, he’s only one of many. I’m beginning to think hundreds!
. One guy is a Frederick Douglass re-enactor.”
If I recall Frederick Douglass thought the US Constitution was the greatest thing ever penned by man.
Protesting is one thing and in fact protected by 1A. Destruction is not and should it happen they need be mowed down.
Instructive isn’t it that he advised blacks NOT to kneel.
Opposite of BLM.
This is FR. I don’t go to the site or read the article...
Meanwhile all this crap started because a not very talented football player preferred to stay on his knees.
Hundreds? So we are changing American History for “Hundreds” of people?
i dont either .
He is not kneeling. He is in the act of rising up. His head is lifted, and he does not have both his knees on the ground.
Abraham Lincoln quote: Don’t kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy. I am but God’s humble instrument; but you may rest assured that as long as I live no one shall put a shackle on your limbs; and you shall have all the rights which God has given to every other free citizen of this republic.
Jay Winik’s April 1865
The next day, April 4 [1965], brought an equally stunning sight. While General Grant was off in hot pursuit of Lee’s army, President Abraham Lincoln, in a high silk hat and long black coat, landed at Rocketts in the early afternoon and, accompanied by a naval guard of ten sailors, six in front, four in the rear, set foot on Richmond’s vaunted soil and began the nearly two-mile walk up the hill to Capitol Square. But even four long years of continuing war had not prepared the lanky president for the unprecedented reception he was to receive along a simple one-mile stretch. Out came a sound: “Glory to God!” It was a black man working by the dock. Then again: “Glory to God! Glory! Glory!”
Leaving their squalid houses and their tar-paper shacks, an impenetrable cordon of newly freed blacks followed Lincoln down the rubble-strewn streets, starting with a handful and swelling into a thousand. “Bless the Lord!” they shouted. “The great Messiah! I knowed him as soon as I seed him. He’s in my heart four long years. Come to free his children from bondage. Glory hallelujah.” And Lincoln replied, “You are free. Free as air.” “I know I am free,” answered one old woman, “for I have seen Father Abraham and felt him.”
One of Lincoln’s aides asked the mass to step aside and allow the president to proceed, but to no avail. “After being so many years in the desert without water,” a man said happily, “it is mighty pleasant to be looking at las’ on our spring of life.” Weeping for joy, they strained to touch his hand; dizzy with exultation, they brushed his clothing to see that he was real; fearing that it was only a dream, they wiped their tears to make sure they were in fact looking out upon his face. Moved, Lincoln ignored his bodyguards and waded deeper into the thickening flock.
One black man, overcome by emotion, dropped to his knees, prompting the president to conduct a curbside colloquium on the meaning of emancipation. “Don’t kneel to me,” said the president. “That is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will enjoy hereafter.”
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A female slave dedicated the first five dollars she earned as a freed slave to the building of this memorial and asked that other freed salves do the same. That is how the statue was paid for, by frees slaves!
Empty headed idiots without the basic knowledge of history want to destroy it just to destroy something and get a facebook selfie.
That is a wonderful account, and it’s tragic that so few people know these stories. Lincoln was a remarkable man and a brilliant speaker and most countries would be happy to have somebody like him in their past. But of course the Antifa/BLM generation have been taught nothing but leftist thought, which means Marxist materialism. So they honestly can’t believe there are things such as ideals, ideal concepts, principles, etc.
When I was looking for the quote for another Freeper, i saw what passes for Lincoln scholarship. Pure Marxist analysis, and purely disgusting.
You can appreciate the measure of a man by the virulence of his enemies...
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