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Warren DeMontague

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7. Yeah, I mean obviously some people STILL aren't over it.

Reply to mobeau69 (Reply #6)

Thu Aug 17, 2017, 08:24 PM

Aug 2017

So I hear you. I think Lincoln was trying through his words to touch upon greater, timeless truths- "better angels of our virtue", that sort of thing. It was part of his genius.

But unfortunately the reality was ugly and in many ways still is.

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Maybe this is sacrilegious but I've often thought that [View all] mobeau69 Aug 2017 OP

Well Lincoln didn't have much say... renegade000 Aug 2017 #1

With malice toward none, with charity for all... mobeau69 Aug 2017 #3

The leaders of the rebelliion should have been hung. LSFL Aug 2017 #2

It was a very big ugly family feud for much of the country struggle4progress Aug 2017 #4

Yeah, there was far too much appeasement afterwards. Jim Crow, etc. was allowed to advance. Warren DeMontague Aug 2017 #5

Not blaming him for all that happened mobeau69 Aug 2017 #6

Yeah, I mean obviously some people STILL aren't over it. Warren DeMontague Aug 2017 #7

Reconstruction did NOT address the salient issues... VOX Aug 2017 #8

Most don't even want to consider it but you make a good argument for reparations brush Aug 2017 #9

Precisely. It was, "Okay, you're free, now hit the road." VOX Aug 2017 #10