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Honest Abe to go on trial - for racism (Community College "education")
Aurora [Colorado] Sentinel ^ | 2/8/07 | Staff

Posted on 02/09/2007 7:22:48 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s

Honest Abe to go on trial - for racism

Daily Sun reports

Thursday, February 08, 2007

AURORA | The Community College of Aurora's professors will stage a mock trail that puts Abraham Lincoln on trial for racism at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10, at the college's Fine Arts building at 16000 E. CentreTech Parkway.

The trial is free and open to the public. Based on his speeches and written documents, teams for the prosecution and the defense assembled from the Community College of Aurora's criminal justice program and will try Lincoln to determine whether he was a racist and how his beliefs and attitudes influenced the course of the Civil War, Reconstruction and post-war society.

Call 303-739-6600 or visit www.auroralibrary.org.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: academia; culturewars; indoctrination; indoctrinationcamp; publiceducation; publikskoolz
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Your tax dollars at work.
1 posted on 02/09/2007 7:22:49 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s
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2 posted on 02/09/2007 7:24:27 PM PST by Libertarianize the GOP (Make all taxes truly voluntary)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

This is why if I had to educate my children over again, they would NEVER set foot in a government indoctrination camp. Never.


3 posted on 02/09/2007 7:24:50 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

What a completely, totally, absurd, counter-productive, wrong-headed, moronic debate.


4 posted on 02/09/2007 7:26:47 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad
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To: ChildOfThe60s
Honest Abe from Illinois!
That scamp was from Kentucky!

Brother Dave Gardner
5 posted on 02/09/2007 7:27:24 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: EagleUSA

We homeschooled (for the most part) and our kid went to a private college. Not as bad as state schools, plus she knew/knows how to think for herself.


6 posted on 02/09/2007 7:27:49 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

What a completely, totally, absurd, counter-productive, wrong-headed, moronic debate.
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Exactly -- a byproduct of liberalism and a totally sloppy attempt to rewrite history. Yawn -- I know, its right out of the lib playbook. OLD playbook.


7 posted on 02/09/2007 7:28:39 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: ChildOfThe60s

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.


8 posted on 02/09/2007 7:29:04 PM PST by popdonnelly (Conservatives must have their own long march through the institutions.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

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!


9 posted on 02/09/2007 7:29:40 PM PST by DemforBush
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To: EagleUSA

All we have to do is get rid of the humanities. Teach math only.


10 posted on 02/09/2007 7:29:57 PM PST by AmishDude (It doesn't matter whom you vote for. It matters who takes office.)
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To: popdonnelly

That's left-wing revisionist history for you.


11 posted on 02/09/2007 7:30:02 PM PST by darkangel82 (Socialism is NOT an American value.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

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.


12 posted on 02/09/2007 7:30:30 PM PST by krb (If you're not outraged, people probably like having you around.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

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!"


13 posted on 02/09/2007 7:31:11 PM PST by clearlight ("I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula"-Muhammad)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

We homeschooled (for the most part) and our kid went to a private college. Not as bad as state schools, plus she knew/knows how to think for herself.
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Most likely what I might do if I had it to do over. But if the American public is stupid enough to put a Marxist in the White House, with a socialist Congress, then state indoctrination camps will be mandatory and they will control your child....Hitlery will try. She already did once and many will remember her little power grab at the high school level where she wanted to take control of your child's future and dictate what profession your child would work in (for the state, of course).

We are dealing with Marxists here now. For sure.


14 posted on 02/09/2007 7:31:29 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: popdonnelly

I just hope no body finds out he was a *GASP* republican. He'll hang fer shur.


15 posted on 02/09/2007 7:32:05 PM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
I should be easy to get a conviction, based on Lincoln's statements it is obvious that he was a racist. The real question for examining historical figures is whether on net they improved their society and by how much. Perfection is not a legitimate standard for any of us but we can all make our world at least a little better and we should be judged on how well we accomplished that goal.
16 posted on 02/09/2007 7:33:44 PM PST by Libertarianize the GOP (Make all taxes truly voluntary)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Will the Emancipation Proclamation be offered as evidence for his defense?


17 posted on 02/09/2007 7:34:07 PM PST by HoosierHawk (Republicans - The Party of Lincoln)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Your honor, I'd like to call Robert Byrd, Fritz Hollings, and Joesph Biden to the stand.


18 posted on 02/09/2007 7:40:29 PM PST by D-Chivas
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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: krb
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.

I can't count the number of times that I have heard people from the deep south call Lincoln a racist.

20 posted on 02/09/2007 7:43:45 PM PST by basil (Exercise your Second Amendment rights--buy another gun today.)
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