Letter to the Editor: Do Not Rename Lincoln High School

[David Lockmiller]

(12-17-2020 09:08 AM)Mylye2222 Wrote:  Who are they to judge, 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.

Sometime back, I was reading someplace about a young man that worked in a hotel where the lawyers would stay while traveling the Eighth Circuit.

Your statement made me think of it: "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."

The young man who worked in the hotel made special note of the kind and dignified treatment he received from Mr. Lincoln, unlike the somewhat condescending treatment he had received from some other attorneys.

Later, this young man campaigned for Lincoln in the state. And, he went to Chicago for the Republican National Convention. He also claimed to have helped pack the Wig Wam Auditorium with Lincoln supporters on a crucial night while the Republican Seward supporters were out marching in the streets. So, in a manner of speaking, he was somewhat important to the election of Lincoln as President.

And, it was all because how the lawyer Abraham Lincoln treated him when he was a lad working his first job.

I thought about making a post of this at the time . . . .