Questions About John Brown

[Eva Elisabeth]

Re.: "I did think I answered your question but you tell me that I did not" - just to clarify - "until now" referred to your post #52, the previous one to the "until now", and in the following I even thanked you explicitly for your answer.

I did not mean to be personal, as I said I wanted to illustrate. I asked whether you were yourself willing to do what in your posts you thought others should have done back then, which I find a legitimate question. I also asked for the responsibility of the (nowadays) unhappy ones. I have more than this time read on the forum something of the essence (my perception) that Lincoln should better have done this or that, and then everything would be better now, or the blacks more self-confident, whatsoever. But Lincoln at least tried to do and did something. It maybe wasn't the silver bullet, but he paid for his efforts with his health and life, and I wonder how many of those with "better ideas" by hindsight would be willing to do. This was my mere intention to express.

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PS: I am really sorry for the personal experiences you made, and as I've said more than once I didn't mean to personally offend you. I, too, just want to understand things better.