Mr. Lee

[Linda Anderson]

(04-18-2014 10:30 PM)J. Beckert Wrote:  You've made some good points, Rick. The Church of Lincoln conveniently forgets the crude, racially themed jokes that appalled his contemporaries when he was President and the fact that when he spoke of black folks, the word he sometimes used to describe them started with an "n".

The broad brush has been used in this story for too long.

Joe, the "n" word is a horrible word but how was it regarded during the Civil War? Are you holding Mr. Lincoln to 21st century standards?

Rick, the best illustration of how Lincoln felt about African Americans is the Emancipation Proclamation. It says something about Lincoln's character that the African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass came to admire him.