Questions About John Brown

[Eva Elisabeth]

(02-07-2016 06:20 PM)My Name Is Kate Wrote:  From everything I've observed about black people living in this country today, (and as I've said in another thread, I lived for twenty years in poor, unsafe, unfriendly neighborhoods), many if not most of them, do not think they have anything close to the freedom and opportunity they "should" have. They are not happy. Why not, if the Civil War was so beneficial to them? BTW, I live up north, not in the south.

Would they be happier if freed the way you suggested? Or still in bondage? I don't see why this is the mere "fault" of "Lincoln"/his politics as there were several generations that followed. Where is their responsibility? And where the responsibility of the unhappy ones - why don't you expect them to free themselves now from their unhappy situation? You expected free sympathetic people to aid them - are you one of those to aid them now? And how could Lincoln foresee/expect this to happen today? (It's always easy to criticize by hindsight and when it were the others who were/are responsible/to act.)

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These are neutral questions that just came to my mind when reading your post. I am aware I lack insight - and I would like to understand. Thanks.