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.
This is why if I had to educate my children over again, they would NEVER set foot in a government indoctrination camp. Never.
What a completely, totally, absurd, counter-productive, wrong-headed, moronic debate.
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.
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.
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.
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!
All we have to do is get rid of the humanities. Teach math only.
That's left-wing revisionist history for you.
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.
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!"
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.
I just hope no body finds out he was a *GASP* republican. He'll hang fer shur.
Will the Emancipation Proclamation be offered as evidence for his defense?
Your honor, I'd like to call Robert Byrd, Fritz Hollings, and Joesph Biden to the stand.
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.
I can't count the number of times that I have heard people from the deep south call Lincoln a racist.
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