Questions About John Brown

[My Name Is Kate]

Why do you say "the way you suggested?" It was John Brown's idea, not mine. I merely said that John Brown may have had the right idea about how to free the slaves, but he should not have advocated murder except in self-defense. And why does no one address the issue of Lincoln's statement (paraphrased, but in essence) at the time John Brown was hanged, that Brown deserved to be hanged because his advocating violence and murder was treason against the country, then, in his second inaugural address, after so many hundreds of thousands had been killed in the war, aligning himself with Brown's viewpoint that massive bloodshed was God's retribution for the country's sin of slavery?

I "expected free sympathetic people to aid" the slaves? I did no such thing. As you may have noticed, I am living here in the 21st century, not in the 19th century. But I certainly do admire the people who attempted to help the slaves, even at the risk of their own lives. "Why don't you expect them (black people) to free themselves now from their unhappy situation?" I absolutely DO expect that! At least they should make an effort not to contribute even more to their own unhappiness, as well as to the unhappiness of others who must come in contact with them.

Have you ever lived among people who hate this country and feel entitled to so much more, and expect YOU to deliver, and make them happy, while at the same time they have no respect for you because you are white, or because you refuse to go to bed with them (sorry Roger, but I don't know how else to get my point across to some of these people), and it makes no difference at all that you are poor just like they are, and in fact they despise you for being poor because, in their estimation, you are nothing but "white trash"? I have, and I can tell you it's no fun.