Letter to the Editor: Do Not Rename Lincoln High School

[David Lockmiller]

(12-17-2020 09:08 AM)Mylye2222 Wrote:  Who are they to judge6, by today's standard . PC culture is killing our world.

They keep blaming him out of context with that comment during the debates with Douglas about the "inferiority of the Negro people".
They focus on it and forget all the rest.
The Emancipation proclamation. The authorization of black soldiers to serve. The fact he let the freedmen and their families seek refuge in Washington. The last speech at the White House when he proposed limited suffrage to black men... Pretty good for a man to whom black lives didn't matter.
They should read the stories from the black White House staff. When Lincoln took office , it was the first time they were treated with dignity.

Don't forget the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the "king's cure" (in President Lincoln's words) to the end of slavery in the United States. It is the Constitution that is King in a democracy.