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Originally Posted by meknow
Abd:
You have all the answers about slavery, how and who, what and when and yet on one to the pillars of your arguments about the slavery of black people you give credit to a man (an American president at that) because his name was Abraham. you are really easy abd.
before you make any more statements about Lincoln sir I would strongly suggest that you read a bit more about him. it is true that he is believed to have had not only african ancestry but Indian also. your boy Lincoln did say that slavery was wrong, but he also was opposed to giving slaves social and political equality. Read some of the writings of Fredrick Douglass to look into the soul of your abraham. (you may see that there maybe some brain washing that has crepted also into your mind.)
Did you know that your hero tried to send blacks to islands south of the border to get rid of us, but the experiments failed because of death by disease to the chosen.
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I am shocked. And, very disappointed. Now, I am starting to understand, or should I say "overstand". how your little mind works. At fist I thought you were pretending to be... well, you get my drift, I hope. Anyway, it is better to be suspected an idiot than to let evertbody know that you are one.
Lincoln was an American politician who was seeking to get re-elected. This meant that he had to negotiate with a racist American social and political culture, much like what we see in Obama today. This did not make Lincoln a bad person. Certainly, his compromises were no greater than those of Saint Paul of Bible fame.
Besides, I am one who has worked in the scorching hot sun for ten hours at minimum wage of cotton planatations. Before qutiing time on any given day, you, Lincoln, Saint Paul or juast about anybody could have persuaded me to go to Mexico. Or, better yet: Africa.
See, America is not all it is preasented to be. We catch hell in this racist country. So, maybe Lincoln was trying to show us mercy by giving us an option to get back to more hospitable environs. You know, the first African republic, Liberia, was started that way. The smart slaves among us, got out of America as soon as the they unlocked the door. Smart move, I say. 'Cuase it was not long before they re-locked the door to keep us here to pick their cotton for slave wages.
One good thing about slavery, if there is such a thing, was that the slaveholders had a moral obligation to care for his slaves. Actually, it was more of a financial/business obligation. The problem was that the slaveholders were too dumb to see that far. They did not understand that it was better to free the slaves to starve or work for minimum wage. At Chrsitmastime, they did not have give the workers fat pork and hog intestines. All they were required to do was to pay them less than what was needed to buy food. Freedom. So, getting out of this trick was a smart move on the part of the founders of the Republic of Liberia. Lincoln had more mercy than you give him credit for.