Posted on 07/03/2020 7:41:38 AM PDT by C19fan
Protesters plan to storm Washington, D.C., over Independence Day weekend with protests and demonstrations.
Activists in the most high profile of these events plan to protest the Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park. The memorial, which leaders of the local collective the Freedom Neighborhood claimed they would topple last week, has become a subject of national interest, with many people making a case both for and against the statue. Glenn Foster, the leader of the Freedom Neighborhood, has promoted multiple protests against the memorial set for the days surrounding the July 4 weekend. In some of his material, he celebrated the fact that on Tuesday the Boston Arts Commission voted to remove an identical copy of the statue, which depicts President Abraham Lincoln freeing the slave Archer Alexander, from public display.
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There is a blm yell up tomorrow in the park of our little town. I hope to go, to talk to the black-clad children.
Black Lives Matter is not the issue. “The issue is the Revolution”.
Just as evidence that this is all fake and that Soros must be having a harder time than usual, I saw an add recently where they had to raise the pay for professional looters from $15/hr to $25. I hate seeing looters getting rich but I love that its costing him a lot more to run his scam.
“The end of slavery was a byproduct of the Civil War...not the cause of it.”
Exactly. Research the proposed tariffs to economically hurt the South.
Lincoln had to come up with a cause for the war because there were draft riots in all of the northern cities. The people being drafted didn’t want to go into the grinder for no reason. So in 1863, Lincoln released the Emancipation Proclamation to make the war into a cause. Then two years into the war, it became about abolishing slavery.
Dirty little secret, the North had slaves also.
Little moron darlings were never taught history.
The Summer of Our Discontent.
The Civil War was wayyyy more complicated than that!!
The South called it the War against Northern Aggression. It wasn’t about slavery as much as it was about economic punishment.
Do some research.
“Little moron darlings were never taught history.”
Frustrating.
DC “Mayor” attacks Trump plans because “covid!!!” but will welcome the unwashed throngs standing within inches of each other.
Last week, Jack P. Was attacked in DC by the thugs, while Trump was supposedly in DC to make sure things were calm.
Yeah, it was more complicated, but the war started with the aggression at Sumpter. The leadership in the seceding states made it clear that they believed Lincoln would abolish slavery and that they were seceding because of that. Lincoln offered to leave slavery in the states already established but that was not acceptable to the democrat South. All of the events such as Dredd Scott, the Missouri Compromise, were all aimed at maintaining slavery and expanding it. It was about slavery to the South; in the North it was about slavery and maintaining the union. The South fired the first shots, organized their secession and their army to fire further shots in defense of what they referred to as their peculiar institution. For the wealthy slave owners who organized secession, Sumpter, and the Confederacy it was exactly about slavery.
The Emancipation Proclamation only free the slaves in the states in rebellion, The slaves in Boston were safe and secure in Massah’s hands.
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